...his own family, or to the occasional accommodation of his neighbour. * Two or three cows furnished each family with milk and cheese. The Chapel was the...ancient manorial residence in the more open parts of * One of the most pleasing characteristics of manners in secluded and thinly-peopled districts, is...

...regarded as a pledge of a disposition to be otherwise serviceable in a time of disability and distress. chapel was the only edifice that presided over these...and blood ; and venerable was the transition, when a carious traveller, descending from the heart of the mountains, had come to some ancient manorial residence...

...an organized community whose constitution had been imposed and regulated by the mountains which had protected it. Neither high-born nobleman, knight,...in the more open parts of the vales, which, through rights attached to its proprietor, connected the almost visionary mountain republic he had been contemplating,...

...knight, nor squire was here ; but many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that tne land which they walked over and tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men 6f their name and blood ; and striking was the transition, when a curious traveller, descending from...

...of his own family, or to the occasional accommodation of his neighbour. Two or three cows furnished each family with milk and cheese. The chapel was the...years been possessed by men of their name and blood. . . Corn was grown in these vales sufficient upon each estate to furnish bread for each family, no...

...their comfort and content, like the misery of the Irish, had been the creation of centuries ; and ' many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness...for more than five hundred years been possessed by their name and blood.' Mr Thornton's plan is not entirely novel. A system not unlike it was proposed...

...Westmoreland : " Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood." The ship-carpenters in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have...

...site of the old one, at the expence of the Rev. T. Vaughan. Neither high-born nobleman, knight, or esquire, was here ; but many of these humble sons...in the more open parts of the vales, which, through rights attached to its proprietor, connected the almost visionary mountain republic he had been contemplating,...

...of disability and distress. GENERAL PICTURE OP SOCIETY. 143 Neither high-born nobleman, knight, or esquire, was here; but many of these humble sons of...in the more open parts of the vales, which, through rights attached to its proprietor, connected the almost visionary mountain republic he had been contemplating,...

...Westmoreland, " Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood." The shipcarpenter in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have...