There is a great difference between that mild treatment which is shown to sub-tenants and even scallags, by the old lessees, descended of ancient and honourable families, and the outrageous rapacity of those necessitous strangers who have obtained leases... Every-day Life on an Old Highland Farm, 1769-1782 - Page 151by Isabel Frances Grant - 1924 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sir John Scott Keltie - Clans - 1875 - 302 pages
...much more submissive to their tacksmen than ever they were in former times to their lairds or lords. There is a great difference between that mild treatment...and honourable families, and the outrageous rapacity of those necessitous strangers who have obtained leases from absent proprietors, who treat the natives... | |
| John Patterson MacLean - Scots - 1900 - 470 pages
...much more submissive to their tacksmen than ever they were in former times to their lairds or lords. There is a great difference between that mild treatment...scallags, by the old lessees, descended of ancient and honorable families, and the outrageous rapacity of those necessitous strangers who have obtained leases... | |
| Ada Goodrich-Freer - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1902 - 546 pages
...honour. " I must here observe," says Buchanan, in 1793, "that there is a great difference between the mild treatment which is shown to sub-tenants and even...and honourable families, and the outrageous rapacity of those necessitous strangers, who, having obtained leases from absent proprietors, treat the natives... | |
| Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - Celtic literature - 1922 - 422 pages
...there is a great difference between the mild treatment which is shown to sub-tenants and even sgalags by the old lessees descended of ancient and honourable families, and the outrageous rapacity of those necessitous strangers who have obtained leases from absent proprietors, who treat the natives... | |
| Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - Celtic literature - 1922 - 422 pages
...there is a great difference between the mild treatment which is shown to sub-tenants and even sgalags by the old lessees descended of ancient and honourable families,' and the outrageous rapacity of those necessitous strangers who have obtained leases from absent proprietors, who treat the natives... | |
| Ian Charles Cargill Graham - Electronic books - 2009 - 223 pages
...tacksmen, notices the great difference between "the mild treatment which is shown to subtenants ... by the old lessees, descended of ancient and honourable...natives as if they were a conquered and inferior race." Fortunately such conditions did not exist, and such outrages did not occur, in the central Highlands.11... | |
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