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" Scots nation had many great and profitable places at court, to the high displeasure of the English, yet that was no advantage to our country, which was totally neglected, like a farm managed by servants, and not under the eye of the master. "
The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher - Page 386
by Andrew Fletcher - 1737 - 448 pages
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The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher, Esq

Andrew Fletcher - England - 1732 - 492 pages
...our money was fpent in England, and not among ourfelves; the furniture of our houfes, and the beft of our clothes and equipage was bought at London : and...prerogative in Scotland, to the ruin of liberty, property / and and trade: and the diforders. which were afterwards occafioned by the civil war, gave the laft...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 4

Books - 1821 - 404 pages
...Scots' nation had many great and profitable places at court, to the high displeasure of the English, yet that was no advantage to our country, which was totally neglected, VOL. IV. PART I. I like a farm managed by servants, and not under the eye of- the master." Notwithstanding...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 4

Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...Scots' nation had many great and profitable places at court, to the high displeasure of the English, yet that was no advantage to our country, which was totally neglected, VOL. IV. PART I. 1 like a farm managed by servants, and not under the eye of the master." Notwithstanding...
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The Union of England and Scotland: A Study of International History

James Mackinnon - Scotland - 1896 - 578 pages
...Scots nation had many great and profitable places at court, to the high displeasure of the English, yet that was no advantage to our country, which was totally neglected, like a farm managed by servants, and not under the eye of the master." f Fletcher's contemporary, Seton, allocates the blame...
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The Social and Industrial History of Scotland: From the Earliest ..., Volume 1

James Mackinnon - Industries - 1920 - 200 pages
...Scots nation had many great and profitable places at court, to the high displeasure of the English, yet that was no advantage to our country, which was; totally neglected, like a farm managed by servants, and not under the eye of the master." Seton agrees, but he points out that Scotsmen, by their...
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Thoughts on the Union Between England & Scotland

Albert Venn Dicey, Robert Sangster Rait - History - 1920 - 432 pages
...had many great and profitable places at court, to " the high displeasure of the English, yet there " was no advantage to our country, which was totally " neglected, like a farm managed by servants, and " not under the eye of the Master." 1 The last years of the seventeenth century had been...
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Andrew Fletcher: Political Works

Andrew Fletcher - History - 1997 - 304 pages
...Fletcher articulated what at the time was a widely held conviction. the high displeasure of the English, yet that was no advantage to our country, which was totally neglected, like a farm managed by servants, and not under the eye of the master. The great business both of Scots and English ministers...
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The Saltoun Papers: Reflections on Andrew Fletcher

Paul Henderson Scott - History - 2003 - 204 pages
...... though particular persons of the Scots nation had many great and profitable places at court ... yet that was no advantage to our country, which was totally neglected, like a farm managed by servants and not under the eye of the master.' 'If I make a bargain for the people that inhabit the...
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