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... too easily satisfied with the bare existence that even indolence can procure in this country, and care little for raising themselves and their families to a state of comfort and abundance.

Letters from Nova Scotia: Comprising Sketches of a Young Country - Page 344
by William Scarth Moorsom - 1830 - 371 pages
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Beyond the Atlantic Roar: A Study of the Nova Scotia Scots

Donald Fraser Campbell, Douglas F. Campbell, R. A. MacLean - History - 1974 - 340 pages

...as the world gives to it. . . . Scotch, both from the High and Lowlands, are here [Sherbrooke] found without intermixture; the former make but indifferent...of comfort and abundance. In the course of another genera"* B. Murdock, A History oj Nova Scotia or Acadie, 3 Vols., (Halifax, 1865-67), ii, p. 591. In...

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