 | Thomas Douglas Earl of Selkirk - Social Science - 1805 - 318 pages
...************** y Q i f fa pQ\.& seq. ' The chief exercises an arbitrary authority over his vas* sals, determines all differences and disputes that happen...' among them, and levies taxes upon extraordinary occa' sions; such as the marriage of a daughter, building a ' house, or some pretence for his support,... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1822 - 394 pages
...opposition to the people of the Low-country, whom they despise as inferior to them in courage, and believe they have a right to plunder them whenever it is in...tradition, that the Lowlands, in old times, were the possession of their ancestors. If the truth of this opinion of theirs stood in need of any evidence,... | |
 | William Forbes Skene - Clans - 1837 - 330 pages
...opposition to the people of the low country, whom they despise as inferior to them in courage, and believe they have a right to plunder them whenever it is in...an arbitrary authority over his vassals, determines alt differences and disputes that happen among them, and levies taxes upon extraordinary occasions,... | |
 | James Browne - Clans - 1838 - 532 pages
...opposition to the people of the low country, whom they despise as inferior to them in courage, and believe they have a right to plunder them whenever it is in...exercises an arbitrary authority over his vassals, deterlu,'in all differences and disputes that happen among them, and levies taxes upon extraordinary... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Economics - 1849 - 356 pages
...to be their chief. A person describing their state of society early in the last century, says — ' The chief exercises an arbitrary authority over his...them, and levies taxes upon extraordinary occasions — such as the marriage of a daughter, building a house, or some pretence for his support and the... | |
 | Walter Simson - 1865 - 606 pages
...did the Highlanders set up, in justification of this wholesale robbery ? — " They believed, from tradition, that the Lowlands, in old times, were the possessions of their an- , cestors." (Skene.) But that was uo excuse for their plundering each other.* The Gipsy's ordinary... | |
 | Sir John Scott Keltie - Clans - 1875 - 302 pages
...country, whom they despise as inferior to them in courage, and believe they have a right to plnnder them whenever it is in their power. This last arises...them, and levies taxes upon extraordinary occasions, such as the marriage of a daughter, building a house, or some pretence for his support or the honour... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1876 - 408 pages
...Opposition to the People of the Low-Country, whom they despise as inferior to them in Courage, and believe they have a Right to plunder them whenever it is in...Tradition, that the Lowlands, in old Times were the Possession of their Ancestors. If the Truth of this Opinion of theirs stood in Need of any Evidence,... | |
 | Edward Burt - 1876 - 378 pages
...Opposition to the People of the Low-Country, whom they despise as inferior to them in Courage, and believe they have a Right to plunder them whenever it is in...Tradition, that the Lowlands, in old Times were the Possession of their Ancestors. If the Truth of this Opinion of theirs stood in Need of any Evidence,... | |
 | William Forbes Skene - Scotland - 1890 - 558 pages
...tion to the people of the Low Country, whom they despise as inferior to them in courage, and believe they have a right to plunder them whenever it is in...tradition that the Lowlands, in old times, were the possession of their ancestors. The chief exercises an arbitrary authority over his vassals, determines... | |
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The chief exercises an arbitrary authority over his vassals, determines all differences and disputes that happen among them, and levies taxes upon extraordinary occasions, such as the marriage of a daughter, building a house, or some pretence for his... 
