 | Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 398 Seiten
...mountain fastnesses of Switzerland, or the swampy polders of Holland and Belgium. " In Norway the land " is parcelled out into small estates, affording a " comfortable subsistence, and in a moderate de" gree the elegancies of civilized life, but nothing " more. With a population of 910,000 inhabitants... | |
 | Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 396 Seiten
...mountain fastnesses of Switzerland, or the swampy polders of Holland and Belgium. " In Norway the land " is parcelled out into small estates, affording a " comfortable subsistence, and in a moderate de" gree the elegancies of civilized life, but nothing " more. With a population of 910,000 inhabitants... | |
 | Sidney Smith (phrenologist.) - 1849 - 204 Seiten
...sunk them to the lowest point in the scale of civilization." _ " In Norway," says Laing, " the land is parcelled out into small estates, affording a comfortable subsistence, and, in a moderate degree, the elegancies of civilized life, but nothing more. With a population of 910,000 inhabitants, about the... | |
 | Sidney Smith - 1849 - 210 Seiten
...and sunk them to the lowest point in the scale of civilization." " In Norway," says Laing, " the land is parcelled out into small estates, affording a comfortable subsistence, and, in a moderate degree, the elegancies of civilized life, but nothing more. With a population of 910,000 inhabitants, about the... | |
 | Samuel Laing - 1851 - 320 Seiten
...disappear; and the female sex will be found to have in fact more to do with the real business of life, and with those concerns which require mental exertion...comfortable subsistence, and in a moderate degree the elegancies of civilised life; but nothing more. With a population of 910,000 inhabitants, about the... | |
 | Samuel Laing - 1851 - 644 Seiten
...disappear; and the female sex will be found to have in fact more to do with the real business of life, and with those concerns which require mental exertion...comfortable subsistence, and in a moderate degree the elegancies of civilised life ; but nothing more. ^Vith a population of 910,000 inhabitants, about the... | |
 | Patrick Lavelle - 1870 - 570 Seiten
...witness what obtains in the half-polar regions there. Mr. Laing thus describes it:— "In Norway the land is parcelled out into small estates, affording a comfortable subsistence, and, in a moderate degree, the elegancies of life, but nothing more. With a population of 910,000 inhabitants, about the year 1819,... | |
 | Patrick Lavelle - 1870 - 620 Seiten
...what obtains in the half-polar regions there. Mr. Laing thus describes it:— " In Norway the land is parcelled out into small estates, affording a comfortable subsistence, and, in a moderate degree, the elegancies of life, but nothing more. With a population of 910,000 inhabitants, about the year 1819,... | |
 | 1879 - 280 Seiten
...individual who is indebted to others for one morsel he eats,'' Mr. Laiug says :— " In Norway the land is parcelled out into small estates, affording a comfortable subsistence, and, in a moderate degree, the elegancies of civilized life, but nothing more. With a population of 910,000 inhabitants, about the... | |
 | Peter Fjågesund, Ruth A. Symes - 2003 - 420 Seiten
...disappear; and the female sex will be found to have in fact more to do with the real business of life, and with those concerns which require mental exertion...and talent, than women of the same class in England (Laing 1837, 161—62; italics added). Laing reminds us here of Norwegian women's rights to property,... | |
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with those concerns which require mental exertion and talent, than women of the same class in England. In Norway the land, as already observed, is parcelled out into small estates, affording a comfortable subsistence, and in a moderate degree the 