 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1781 - 506 pages
...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 - English essays - 1783 - 340 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English essays - 1802 - 260 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 354 pages
...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 - English essays - 1807 - 380 pages
...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 - English essays - 1807 - 356 pages
...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 - English essays - 1819 - 358 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English essays - 1823 - 340 pages
...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.... 
