 But in other, and in but too many instances, the glens of the Highlands have been drained, not of their superfluity of population, but of the whole mass of the inhabitants, dispossessed by an unrelenting avarice, which will be one day found to have been...  On the Strength of Nations - Page 231by Andrew Bisset - 1859 - 300 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 500 pages
...have been drained, not of their superfluity of population, but of the whole mass of the inhabitants, dispossessed by an unrelenting avarice, which will...been as shortsighted as it is unjust and selfish. Mean while, the Highlands may become the fairy ground for romance and poetry, or subject of experiment... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 584 pages
...avarice, which will be one day found to have been as shortsighted as it is unjust and selfish. Mean while, the Highlands may become the fairy ground for romance...need should come — and it may not, perhaps, be far dis- i tant — the pibroch may sound through the deserted 1 region, but the summons will remain unanswered.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 402 pages
...have been drained, not of their superfluity of population, but of the whole mass of the inhabitants, dispossessed by an unrelenting avarice, which will...been as shortsighted as it is unjust and selfish. Mean while, the Highlands may become the fairy ground for romance and poetry, or subject of experiment... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 396 pages
...have been drained, not of their superfluity of population, but of the whole mass of the inhabitants, dispossessed by an unrelenting avarice, which will...been as shortsighted as it is unjust and selfish. Mean while, the Highlands may become the fairy ground for romance and poetry,, or subject of experiment... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 462 pages
...have been drained, not of their superfluity of population, but of the whole mass of the inhabitants, dispossessed by an unrelenting avarice, which will...been as shortsighted as it is unjust and selfish. Mean while, the Highlands may become the fairy ground for romance and poetry, or subject of experiment... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...avarice, which will be one day found to have been as shortsighted as it is unjust and selfish. Mean while, the Highlands may become the fairy ground for romance...should come — and it may not, perhaps, be far distant — the'priboch may sound through the deserted region, but the summons will remain unanswered. The... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 594 pages
...have been drained, not of their superfluity of population, but of the whole mass of the inhabitants, dispossessed by an unrelenting avarice, which will...and selfish. Meanwhile, the highlands may become the faery ground for romance and poetry, or subject of experiment for the professors of speculation, political... | |
 | 1840 - 566 pages
...of the whole mass of the inhabitants, dispossessed by an unrelenting avarice, which will one day be found to have been as short-sighted as it is unjust...and economical. But if the hour of need should come, the pibroch may sound through the deserted region, but the summons will remain unanswered. The children,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 456 pages
...have been drained, not of their superfluity of population, but of the whole mass of the inhabitants, dispossessed by an unrelenting avarice, which will be one day found to have been as shortsighted as it-is unjust and selfish. Meanwhile, the Highlands may become the fairy ground for romance and poetry,... | |
 | Howard Evans - 1879 - 398 pages
...have been drained, not of their superfluity of population, but of the whole mass of the inhabitants, dispossessed by an unrelenting avarice, which will...been as short-sighted as it is unjust and selfish." Of the selfishness of the policy which drove men out to make room for sheep and deer there can be no... | |
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