Eastern coast, on the report of a ship being there loaden with meal. Numbers of the miserables of this country were now migrating: they wandered in a state of desperation; too poor to pay, they madly sell themselves, for their passage, preferring a temporary... The Crofter in History - Page 94by Lord Colin Campbell - 1885 - 104 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1857 - 628 pages
...futurity, perhaps on the motive of Turkish vassals, who are oppressed in proportion to their improvements. Dispirited and driven to despair by bad management,...there laden with meal. Numbers of the miserables of that country are now migrating. They wander in a state of desperation : too poor to pay, they madly... | |
| National portrait gallery - 1874 - 568 pages
...futurity, perhaps on the motive of Turkish vassals, who are oppressed in proportion to their improvements. Dispirited, and driven to despair by bad management,...there laden with meal. Numbers of the miserables of that country are now emigrating. They wander in a state of desperation ; too poor to pay, they madly... | |
| National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) - Art - 1875 - 418 pages
...to their improvements. Dispirited, and driven to despair by bad management, crowds were nowpassing, emaciated with hunger, to the eastern coast, on the...there laden with meal. Numbers of the miserables of that country are now emigrating. They wander in a state of desperation ; too poor to pay, they madly... | |
| Scotland - 1884 - 474 pages
...people almost torpid with idleness and most wretched . . . Dispirited and driven to despair by had management, crowds were now passing, emaciated with...eastern coast, on the report of a ship being there loaden with meal. Numbers of the miserables of this country were now migrating ; they wandered in a... | |
| 1884 - 654 pages
...tract stems the residence of sloth ; the people almost torpid with idleness and most wretched . . . Dispirited and driven to despair by bad management,...eastern coast, on the report of a ship being there loaden with meal. Numbers of the miserables of this country were now migrating ; they wandered in a... | |
| Donald MacKay - History - 1996 - 282 pages
...spring came famine. In the parish of Assynt, Sutherlandshire, Thomas Pennant reported "crowds were passing emaciated with hunger, to the eastern coast,...there, laden with meal. Numbers of the miserables of the country were now migrating; they wandered in a state of desperation; too poor to pay, they madly... | |
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