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A short contrast may therefore be useful , of the past history , future destinies , and varied benefits held out by different countries as fields for emigration . So many feelings actuate men in choosing the United States of America for ...
A short contrast may therefore be useful , of the past history , future destinies , and varied benefits held out by different countries as fields for emigration . So many feelings actuate men in choosing the United States of America for ...
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They therefore justly feel that they have a right to expect the description of emigrants most suited to their wants , and that their money should not be made the means of clearing out Ragged Schools or Workhouses for the benefit of the ...
They therefore justly feel that they have a right to expect the description of emigrants most suited to their wants , and that their money should not be made the means of clearing out Ragged Schools or Workhouses for the benefit of the ...
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While the demand is urgent , and where the room for settlement is so great , they do not object to receive any , except such as from their former crimes must prove a pest , and not a benefit to society ; a cause of ruinous public ...
While the demand is urgent , and where the room for settlement is so great , they do not object to receive any , except such as from their former crimes must prove a pest , and not a benefit to society ; a cause of ruinous public ...
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... benefit is mutual , an agreement might not be made by which a proportion of the expense might PROPOSALS FOR EMIGRATION FUND . 61 be defrayed by all.
... benefit is mutual , an agreement might not be made by which a proportion of the expense might PROPOSALS FOR EMIGRATION FUND . 61 be defrayed by all.
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61 be defrayed by all who receive such benefit ;why the colonial funds , the Imperial Government , and perhaps the emigrant himself , should not each bear a share of the expense of the passage . The cost has latterly been much reduced ...
61 be defrayed by all who receive such benefit ;why the colonial funds , the Imperial Government , and perhaps the emigrant himself , should not each bear a share of the expense of the passage . The cost has latterly been much reduced ...
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acres advantage afford agricultural America amount annual believed benefit Britain climate colonists colony consideration consist convict cost course Crown demand Diemen's Land district emigrants England establishment evil exist expense Exports fact families flocks formed funds future give Government greater head hope houses Imports improve increase inhabitants instance interest invested labour leave less live means Melbourne ment nature never object observation obtained once persons population Port Phillip portion position possesses present probably produce progress prosperity prove purchased pursuits reason religion remain result scarcely secured sent settle settlement settlers sheep society sold sometimes South Australia South Wales squatter statements station success supply Sydney taken tallow town trade wages wants wealth wool Zealand
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Página viii - ... domestic habits, our commercial enterprise, our laws, our institutions, our language, our literature, and our sense of religious obligation, to the more distant regions of the globe, is an enterprise worthy of the character of a great maritime nation. It is not only in its progress, the pursuit and the attainment of glory, but in its success, is the performance of a high duty, and the accomplishment of a noble destiny ; and if it can also be made subservient to the relief of pressing distress...
Página 37 - And the voice of the nightingale never is mute: Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?
Página 63 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years ; But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página viii - To transplant our domestic habits, our commercial enterprise, our laws, our institutions, our language, our literature, and our sense of religious obligation, to the more distant regions of the globe, is an enterprise worthy of the character of a great maritime nation. It is not only in its progress, the pursuit and...
Página 62 - Coming to these shores one by one, and scattered through all the colonies, Presbyterians, like the Tribe of Levi, " had none inheritance in the land.
Página 74 - It is one of the characteristics of Australian society, that there are mingled through it men who have seen much of the world, and have also been more or less forced to use their minds. This gives an unusually diversified and manly tone to conversation. One may be heard to describe the delights of landing at Rio, on his outward-bound voyage, while another recommends his friends to proceed home via India and Egypt...
Página 14 - ... these pioneers of civilisation a little en beau. In a pamphlet, published in London in 1850, he affirms that there might be found among them " men retired from their professions, whether clerical, military, naval, legal, or medical ; and the younger sons of good and even noble families, who preferred seeking an active independence to pursuing the lounging life of drones in the mother country.
Página viii - Enterprise, 308 our Laws, our Institutions, our Language, our Literature, and our sense of Religious Obligation, to the more distant regions of the Globe, is an enterprise worthy of the character of a great maritime Nation. It is not only in its Progress the Pursuit and...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The New Colony of Victoria, Formly Port Phillip: With Some Account of the Other Australian Colonies |
| Autor | John Fitzgerald Leslie Foster |
| Editor | T. Saunders, 1851 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 1 Oct 2007 |
| N.º de páginas | 85 páginas |
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