| William Forbes Skene - Clans - 1837 - 330 pages
...they have an adherence one to another as Highlanders in opposition to the people of the low country, whom they despise as inferior to them in courage,...tradition that the Lowlands in old times were the possessions of their ancestors. " The chief exercises an arbitrary authority over his vassals, determines... | |
| James Browne - Clans - 1838 - 532 pages
...they have an adherence to one another as Highlanders in opposition to the people of the low country, whom they despise as inferior to them in courage,...tradition that the Lowlands, in old times, were the possessions of their ancestors. " The chief exercises an arbitrary authority over his vassals, deterlu,'in... | |
| Sir John Scott Keltie - Clans - 1875 - 302 pages
...they have an adherence to one another aa Highlanders in opposition to the people of the low country, whom they despise as inferior to them in courage, and believe they have a right to plnnder them whenever it is in their power. This last arises from a tradition that the Lowlands, in... | |
| John Merry Ross - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1877 - 625 pages
...the people of the Low Country, whom they despise as inferior to th,em in courage, and believe that they have a right to plunder them whenever it is in...tradition that the Lowlands in old times were the possessions of their ancestors. The chief exercises an arbitrary authority over his vassals, determines... | |
| William Forbes Skene - Scotland - 1890 - 558 pages
...expres\nflJ, of Scotland in 1726, vol. ii. sinus have been omitted. tion to the people of the Low Country, whom they despise as inferior to them in courage,...old times, were the possession of their ancestors. The chief exercises an arbitrary authority over his vassals, determines all differences and disputes... | |
| English language - 1897 - 634 pages
...as inferior to them in courage, ana believed that they had a right to plunder them whenever it was in their power. This last arises from a tradition that the Lowlands in old times were the possessions of their ancestors. The chief exercises an arbitrary authority over his vassals, determines... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1897 - 500 pages
...as inferior to them in courage, and believed that they had a right to plunder them whenever it was in their power. This last arises from a tradition that the Lowlands in old times were the possessions of their ancestors. The chief exercises an arbitrary authority over his vassals, determines... | |
| Clans - 1899 - 334 pages
...they have an adherence one to another as Highlanders, in opposition to the people of the Low Country, whom they despise as inferior to them in courage,...tradition that the Lowlands, in old times, were the possessions of their anees tors." t EMPLOYMENTS OF THE CLANS. One would be apt to conclude, from a... | |
| Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - Great Britain - 1900 - 526 pages
...jurisdictions were destroyed, and the more restless and lawless were recruited for the foreign service. They likewise owe good Will to such Clans as they...old Times were the Possession of their Ancestors. . . . The Chief exercises an arbitrary Authority over his Vassals, determines all Differences and Disputes... | |
| William Forbes Skene - Clans - 1902 - 476 pages
...they have an adherence one to another as Highlanders in opposition to the people of the low country, whom they despise as inferior to them in courage,...tradition that the Lowlands in old times were the possessions of their ancestors. " The chief exercises an arbitrary authority over his vassals, determines... | |
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