 The towns and villages are populous. The houses are good, all built of hewn stone, and provided with excellent doors, glass windows, and a great number of chimneys. All the furniture that is used in Italy, Spain, and France, is to be found in their dwellings....  History of Scotland - Sida 171efter Robert Anderson (schoolmaster.) - 1874Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | George Gregory Smith - 1890 - 248 sidor
...I think, the handsomest in the world. The towns and villages are populous. The houses are good, all built of hewn stone, and provided with excellent doors,...Spain, and France, is to be found in their dwellings. It has not been bought in modern times only, but inherited from preceding ages. . . . There is a good... | |
 | Peter Hume Brown - 1891 - 372 sidor
...think, the handsomest in the world.i The towns and villages are populous. The houses are good, all built of hewn stone, and provided with excellent doors,...Spain, and France, is to be found in their dwellings. It has not been bought in modern times only, but inherited from preceding ages. The queens possess,... | |
 | Peter Hume Brown - 1899 - 466 sidor
...already been indicated. " The towns and villages," he says, "are populous. The houses are good, all built of hewn stone, and provided with excellent doors,...Spain, and France, is to be found in their dwellings. It has not been bought in modern times only, but inherited from preceding ages." The character he gives... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - 1902 - 362 sidor
...I think, the handsomest in the world. The towns and villages are populous. The houses are good, all built of hewn stone, and provided with excellent doors,...Spain, and France is to be found in their dwellings. It has not been bought in modern times only, but inherited from preceding ages. The islands are half... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - 1902 - 364 sidor
...I think, the handsomest in the world. The towns and villages are populous. The houses are good, all built of hewn stone, and provided with excellent doors,...Spain, and France is to be found in their dwellings. It has not been bought in modern times only, but inherited from preceding ages. The islands are half... | |
 | 1902 - 460 sidor
...of James IV., informed Ferdinand and Isabella (25th July 1498) that the Scottish houses were good, ' provided with excellent doors, glass windows, and a great number of chimneys.' The Spaniard, like later Englishmen, seems to have expected a lower standard of comfort even among... | |
 | Peter Hume Brown - 1904 - 306 sidor
...representative of Ferdinand and Isabella at the Court of James IV. "The houses are good," he says, " all built of hewn stone and provided with excellent doors,...Spain and France is to be found in their dwellings. It has not been bought in modern times only, but inherited from preceding ages." I3 Ayala's description... | |
 | Peter Hume Brown - 1904 - 304 sidor
...representative of Ferdinand and Isabella at the Court of James IV. " The houses are good," he says, " all built of hewn stone and provided with excellent doors,...Spain and France is to be found in their dwellings. It has not been bought in modern times only, but inherited from preceding ages."13 Ayala's description... | |
 | John Kerr - 1910 - 466 sidor
...summarised thus— The towns and villages are populous. The houses are all good, built of hewn stone, provided with excellent doors, glass windows, and a great number of chimneys, and well furnished. The people are handsome, and hospitable to foreigners, but vain, and spend too... | |
 | Eric Stair-Kerr - 1911 - 164 sidor
...stone had superseded the ancient timber dwellings. Ayala writes in 1498 — "The houses are good, all built of hewn stone, and provided with excellent doors,...Spain, and France, is to be found in their dwellings. It has not been bought in modern times only, but inherited from preceding ages." Edinburgh and Perth... | |
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