Scotland in the Time of Queen MaryMethuen & Company, 1904 - 243 páginas |
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... natural forces and the changing circumstances in which these forces must be exercised . It will be readily understood that within the limits of six lectures it is hardly possible to present a complete picture of a country and its people ...
... natural forces and the changing circumstances in which these forces must be exercised . It will be readily understood that within the limits of six lectures it is hardly possible to present a complete picture of a country and its people ...
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... nature of its surface and from its happier circumstances was more open to general inter- communication than Scotland , the people of one part of the country had the vaguest knowledge of districts remote from their own . In the sixteenth ...
... nature of its surface and from its happier circumstances was more open to general inter- communication than Scotland , the people of one part of the country had the vaguest knowledge of districts remote from their own . In the sixteenth ...
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... four historians we have the descriptions by native notes of a few foreign visitors whom business or pleasure brought to a country which was then considered to be at the ends of the earth , and where man and nature 6 SCOTLAND IN THE.
... four historians we have the descriptions by native notes of a few foreign visitors whom business or pleasure brought to a country which was then considered to be at the ends of the earth , and where man and nature 6 SCOTLAND IN THE.
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Peter Hume Brown. ends of the earth , and where man and nature were supposed to be made after a pattern of their own.5 Unfortunately these visitors did not go far afield in their travels , and their observations are mainly confined to ...
Peter Hume Brown. ends of the earth , and where man and nature were supposed to be made after a pattern of their own.5 Unfortunately these visitors did not go far afield in their travels , and their observations are mainly confined to ...
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... nature of their pace were known in France as hobins.46 The wool of the Galloway sheep , also , was the most famous in the country , and , in the opinion of the far - travelled Lithgow was " nothing inferior " to that of the sheep of ...
... nature of their pace were known in France as hobins.46 The wool of the Galloway sheep , also , was the most famous in the country , and , in the opinion of the far - travelled Lithgow was " nothing inferior " to that of the sheep of ...
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