 | Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 Seiten
...little advanced, and its manufactures were in their infancy. A Scotfman was, therefore, in this Ihuadon, obliged to exert every nerve, that he might be able to hold his place. .' If preferment, of offices in public life, were his obje£t, he was obliged to remove from home to a city, which, though... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1783 - 340 Seiten
...genius of the two countries. Scotland, before the union of the two kingdoms, was a feparate ftate, with a parliament and conftitution of its own. Now...place. If preferment, or offices in public life, were Jiis object, he was obliged to remove from home to a city, which, though now the metropolis of .the... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 244 Seiten
...advanced and its manufactures were in their infancy. A Scotsman was, therefore, in this situation, obliged to exert every nerve, that he might be able...his object, he was obliged to remove from home to a a city, which, though now the metropolis of the united kingdoms, had formerly been to him a sort of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 260 Seiten
...advanced and its manufactures were in their infancy. A Scotsman was, therefore, in this situation, obliged to exert every nerve, that he might be able to hold his place. If preferment, or officer, in public life, were his object, he was obliged to remove from home to a a city, which, thougli... | |
 | 1803 - 354 Seiten
...advanced, and its manufactures were in their infancy. A Scotsman was, therefore, in this situation, obliged to exert every nerve, that he might be able...of the united kingdoms, had formerly been to him a sort of foreign capital. If wealth was the object of his pursuit, he could only acquire it at home... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 380 Seiten
...advanced and its manufactures were in their infancy, A Scotsman was, therefore, in this situation, obliged to exert every nerve, that he might be able...of the united kingdoms, had -formerly been to him a sort of foreign capital. If wealth was the object of his pursuit, he could only acquire it at home... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 356 Seiten
...advanced and its manufactures were in their infancy, A Scotsman was, therefore, in this situation, obliged to exert every nerve, that he might be able to hold his place. People in this situation are not apt to indulge themselves in humour; and few humorous characters will... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 358 Seiten
...advanced, and its manufactures were in their infancy. A Scotsman was, therefore, in this situation, obliged to exert every nerve, that he might be able...of the united kingdoms, had formerly been to him a sort of foreign capital. If wealth was the object of his pursuit, he could only acquire it at home... | |
 | 1822 - 356 Seiten
...advanced, and its manufactures were in their infancy. A Scotsman was, therefore, in this situation, obliged to exert every nerve, that he might be able...of the united kingdoms, had formerly been to him a sort of foreign capital. If wealth was the object of his pursuit, he could only acquire it at home... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 340 Seiten
...advanced, and its manufactures were in their infancy. A Scotsman was^ therefore, in this situation, obliged to exert every nerve, that he might be able...of the united kingdoms, had formerly been to him a sort of foreign capital. If wealth was the object of his pursuit, he could only acquire it at home... | |
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... and its constitution is involved in that of England. At the time the two nations came to be so intimately connected, its great men were less affluent than those of England, its agriculture was little advanced, and its manufactures were in their infancy.... 
