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... Waverley or 'tis sixty years since - Página 447de Walter Scott - 1896Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Dekker - 1990 - 392 páginas
...of the insurrection of 1745, - the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs . . . commenced this innovation. The gradual influx of wealth,...existing English are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time.19 Like Americans contemplating their own swift progress, Scott was delighted to look forward... | |
| Konrad Gross, Meinhard Winkgens - 1994 - 432 páginas
...the insurrection of 1745, - the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, - [...] commenced this innovation. The gradual influx of wealth,...existing English are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time.2 Die Realisierung des gründlichen, Schottland transformierenden Wandels geht einher mit der... | |
| Marvin B. Becker - 1994 - 202 páginas
...ancient Scottish manners and customs, commenced this innovation. The gradual influx of wealth, the extension of commerce, have since united to render...existing English are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time.2 How, in Scon's view, had this transformation been achieved? Had the new order been reconciled... | |
| Terence Brown - 1996 - 318 páginas
...since 1745, but Scott's rhetoric works hard to establish the sense of a much greater span of time: The gradual influx of wealth, and extension of commerce,...English are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time. What is stressed is not the shaping of present by past, but the disjunction between the two. WB Gallie... | |
| James Chandler - 1999 - 616 páginas
...of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, — the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions ot the Lowland nobility and barons, — the total eradication...English are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time. (Wav, Postscr.) "Queen Elizabeths time" is comprehended within the time of England. England's "progress"... | |
| Jonathan Bate - 1998 - 420 páginas
...heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons, - the total eradication of the Jacobite parry, which, averse to intermingle with the English, or...have since united to render the present people of Scodand a class of beings as different from their grandfathers, as the existing English are from those... | |
| Saree Makdisi - 1998 - 272 páginas
...customs, long continued to pride themselves upon maintaining the ancient Scottish traditions and manners commenced this innovation. The gradual influx of wealth,...commerce, have since united to render the present people ofScotland a class of beings as different from their grandfathers as the existing English are from... | |
| Franco Moretti - 1999 - 232 páginas
...customs, long continued to pride themselves upon maintaining ancient Scottish manners and costumes, - commenced this innovation. The gradual influx of wealth,...English are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time. WALTER SCOTT, 'A Postscript', Waverley a few miles, and people belong to different epochs. Internal... | |
| Neil Davidson - 2000 - 276 páginas
...undergone so complete a change as the kingdom of Scotland, The effects of the insurrection of 1 745. - the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland...grandfathers, as the existing English are from those of Queen FMzabeth's time.13 Near the beginning of the process, in 1 755, the first issue of the Edinburgh Review... | |
| Mark Salber Phillips - 2000 - 390 páginas
...undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of l745 ... commenced this innovation. The gradual influx of wealth...English are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time." 1 Along with the rapid transformation of eighteenth-century Scotland, Scott's subtitle also calls attention... | |
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