 | Magnus Magnusson - Business & Economics - 2003 - 798 pages
...final chapter of his novel Waverley 11814), nearly two centuries ago, are even more relevant today: There is no European nation which, within the course...of half a century, or little more, has undergone so complex a change as this kingdom of Scotland. Magnus Magnusson KBE April 2000 XVI I1 Chapter 1 IN THE... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2006 - 486 pages
...class of students, to begin with the last chapter of a work; so that, after all, these remarks, being introduced last in order, have still the best chance...Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745, - the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, - the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions... | |
 | Michael Wheeler - History - 2006 - 47 pages
...have been a Preface', in which he reflects upon the rapid change in Scotland after the 'Forty-five': There is no European nation which, within the course...Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745 - the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs - the abolition of the heritable jurisdiction... | |
 | Ian Duncan - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 2007 - 420 pages
...Scott frames his narrative with a meditation on the modernization of Scotland in the period since 1745: There is no European nation which, within the course...Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745, — the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons, — the total eradication... | |
 | Evan Gottlieb - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 282 pages
...Scottish readers alike must learn to identify themselves as sharing this tautological history of progress: There is no European nation which, within the course...Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745— the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs — the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions... | |
 | Everett Zimmerman - Literary Collections - 2007 - 276 pages
...Postscript to Waverley presents the novel as a vehicle for glimpsing a great historical transformation: "There is no European nation which, within the course...so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland"; he argues that "[t]he gradual influx of wealth, and extension of commerce, have . . . united to render... | |
 | Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie, Manfred Engel, Bernard Dieterle - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 772 pages
...unbiased portrayal. The information in the preface points to the story above and beyond the characters: There is no European nation which, within the course...Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745, — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, — the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions... | |
 | Walter Scott - 188? - 970 pages
...class of students to begin with the last chapter of a work ; so that, after all, these remarks, being introduced last in order, have still the best chance...Scotland. The' effects of the insurrection of 1745 — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs— the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions... | |
 | Robert S. Rait - 750 pages
...Scotland's experience. Writing in 1814, Sir Walter Scott expressed deliberate judgment on its character: 'There is no European nation, which, within the course...Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745 — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland Chiefs— the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions... | |
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There is no European nation which, within the course of half a century or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745, — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland... 
