 | William Robertson - 1771 - 458 pages
...and luxury of their more wealthy neighbours, multiplied exactions upon the people, who durft fcarce utter complaints which they knew would never reach...of their Sovereign, nor move him to grant them any redrefs. And from the union of the Crowns, to the Revolution in 1688, Scotland was placed in a political... | |
 | William Robertson - Scotland - 1787 - 620 pages
...manners and luxury of their more wealthy neighbours, multiplied exaftions upon the people, who durft hardly utter complaints which they knew would never...of their Sovereign, nor move him to grant them any redrefs. From the union of the Crowns to the revolution in 1688, Scotland was placed in a political... | |
 | William Robertson - Scotland - 1794 - 620 pages
...manners and luxury of their more wealthy neighbours, multiplied exactions upon the people, who durft hardly utter complaints which they knew would never reach the ear of their fovereign, nor move him to grant them any redrefs. From the union of the crowns to the revolution in... | |
 | William Robertson - Scotland - 1794 - 620 pages
...manners and luxury of their more wealthy neighbours, multiplied exactions upon the people, who durft hardly utter complaints which they knew would never reach the ear of their fovereign, nor move him to grant them any redrefs. From the union of the crowns to the revolution in... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1802 - 542 pages
...attempts to imitate the manners and luxury of their more wealthy neighbours, multiplied exactions upon the people ; who durst hardly utter complaints, which...knew would never reach the ear of their sovereign, or be rendered too feeble to move him tograntthem redress7. Thus subjected at once to the 7. Robertson,... | |
 | William Robertson - 1817 - 442 pages
...attempts to imitate the manners and luxury of their more wealthy neighbours, multiplied exactions upon the people, who durst hardly utter complaints which...to the revolution in 1688, Scotland was placed in a poT liticul situation, of all others the most singular and the most unhappy ; subjected at once to... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - History - 1821 - 512 pages
...attempts to imitate the manners and luxury of their more wealthy neighbours, multiplied exactions upon the people, who durst hardly utter complaints which...From the union of the crowns to the revolution in 1 688, Scotland was placed in a political situation of all others the most singular and the most unhappy... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1822 - 452 pages
...luxury of their more wealthy neighbours, multiplied exactions upon the people, who hardly dared to utter complaints, which they knew would never reach the ear of their sovereign, or would be rendered too feeble to move him to grant them redress6. Thus subjected at once to the absolute... | |
 | William Robertson - America - 1825 - 482 pages
...attempts to imitate the manners and luxury of their more wealthy neighbours, multiplied exactions upon the people, who durst hardly utter complaints which...From the union of the crowns to the .revolution in one thousand six hundred and eighty-eight, Scotland •was placed in a political situation, of all... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 768 pages
...manner is affectation which is at variance with genuine simplicity, if not directly opposed to it ; ' From the union of the crowns to the Revolution in 1688, Scotland was placed in a political situation the most singular and most unhappy.1 ROBERTSON. SOME, ANY. Some, probably contracted from so a one... | |
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The nobles exhausting their fortunes by the expense of frequent attendance upon the English court, and by attempts to imitate the manners and luxury of their more wealthy neighbours, multiplied exactions upon the people, who durst hardly utter complaints... 
