 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 838 páginas
...the present day, there is perhaps no country in Europe, in which, in proportion to its population, so small a number of crimes fall under the chastisement of the criminal law, as in Scotland ; and he adds, upon undoubted authority, that on an average of thirty years preceding... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 páginas
...Andrew Fletcher, octavo, London, 1737, />. i44. in Europe, in which, in proportion to its population, so small a number of crimes fall under the chastisement of the criminal law, as Scotland. "We have the best authority for asserting, that on an average of thirty years preceding... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1812 - 494 páginas
...At the present day there is perhaps no country in Europe, in which, in proportion to its population, so small a number of crimes fall under the chastisement of the criminal law as Scotland. We have the best authority for asserting, that on an average of thirty years preceding... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1815 - 404 páginas
...the present day, there is perhaps no country in Europe, in which, in proportion to its population, so small a number of crimes fall under the chastisement of the criminal law, as in Scotland; and he adds, upon undoubted authority, that on an average of thirty years preceding... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1815 - 406 páginas
...the present day, there is perhaps no country in Europe, in which, in proportion to its population, so small a number of crimes fall under the chastisement of the criminal law, as in Scotland; and he adds, upon undoubted authority, that on an average of thirty years preceding... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1815 - 336 páginas
...the present day, there is perhaps no country in Europe, in which, in proportion to its population, so small a number of crimes fall under the chastisement of the criminal law, as in Scotland; and he adds, upon undoubted authority, that on an average of thirty years preceding... | |
 | Daniel Macintosh - 1821 - 408 páginas
...and decency; and there is perhaps no country in Europe in which, in proportion to its population, ao small a number of crimes fall under the chastisement of the criminal laws as in Scotland : The diffusion of knowledge is therefore justly deemed the most effectual means... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 858 páginas
...the present day, there is perhaps no country in Europe, in which, in proportion to its population, so small a number of crimes fall under the chastisement of the criminal law as in Scotland ; and he adds upon undoubted authority, that, on an average of thirty years preceding... | |
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Such was the state of Scotland at the time when the present system of education was established. Jt is justly stated by Dr. Currie that, at the present day, there is perhaps no country in Europe, in which, in proportion to its population... 
