A Tour in Sweden in 1838: Comprising Observations on the Moral, Political, and Economical State of the Swedish Nation |
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Page 34
... English people , that the best educated and most intelligent may have made the smallest advance in the habits and modes of living that denote civilisation . There must be causes , altogether independent of education , which in this ...
... English people , that the best educated and most intelligent may have made the smallest advance in the habits and modes of living that denote civilisation . There must be causes , altogether independent of education , which in this ...
Page 38
... English - there is a Skyds - sta- tion , or a post station to which the peasants are obliged to bring their horses upon certain days in regular tour of duty , to be in waiting to post with travellers . If more happen to arrive than the ...
... English - there is a Skyds - sta- tion , or a post station to which the peasants are obliged to bring their horses upon certain days in regular tour of duty , to be in waiting to post with travellers . If more happen to arrive than the ...
Page 40
... English . This is one third less than is paid in Norway for the same distance but neither rate can indemnify the husbandman for the loss of a day's work of horse and man , in seed time or harvest . It is , besides , an infringement of ...
... English . This is one third less than is paid in Norway for the same distance but neither rate can indemnify the husbandman for the loss of a day's work of horse and man , in seed time or harvest . It is , besides , an infringement of ...
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... English . The roots of words , construction , and idioms are the same in both , or have a common origin . Many English readers have confused ideas of the limits of these northern languages . The Norse or Norwegian of the present day is ...
... English . The roots of words , construction , and idioms are the same in both , or have a common origin . Many English readers have confused ideas of the limits of these northern languages . The Norse or Norwegian of the present day is ...
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... English and Old Swedish , Fen , a mo- rass , and is a translation of the name Suome into a German word . A curious mistake about the name of this race called Quens , has probably given rise to the fables of a land of Amazons in the ...
... English and Old Swedish , Fen , a mo- rass , and is a translation of the name Suome into a German word . A curious mistake about the name of this race called Quens , has probably given rise to the fables of a land of Amazons in the ...
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