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... not only has been realised in some British possessions , but has been exemplified on a greater scale , and with more entire success there , and of late years , than has been manifested elsewhere in the past history of mankind .
... not only has been realised in some British possessions , but has been exemplified on a greater scale , and with more entire success there , and of late years , than has been manifested elsewhere in the past history of mankind .
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... many others might be enumerated both there and in the other towns of the district , it admits of no doubt that greater gains , with more certainty and less speculation , are to be obtained in the rural pursuits of the settlers .
... many others might be enumerated both there and in the other towns of the district , it admits of no doubt that greater gains , with more certainty and less speculation , are to be obtained in the rural pursuits of the settlers .
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Here , in a state of abundance and leisure for the greater part of the year , dwells the squatter , who never need want the fullest occupation , if of an active disposition ; but who too generally leaves the control of all details to ...
Here , in a state of abundance and leisure for the greater part of the year , dwells the squatter , who never need want the fullest occupation , if of an active disposition ; but who too generally leaves the control of all details to ...
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At this season hundreds of men leave the towns and their other pursuits to reap the greater gains of the shearing — the Australian harvest . Each settler hires from 10 to 20 of them who can shear well 50 sheep each per diem ; for which ...
At this season hundreds of men leave the towns and their other pursuits to reap the greater gains of the shearing — the Australian harvest . Each settler hires from 10 to 20 of them who can shear well 50 sheep each per diem ; for which ...
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Here many of them remain too long for their own interest , but the greater number soon return to their homes , and indulge themselves with a second visit to the metropolis in the idle time of the year . Having given several instances of ...
Here many of them remain too long for their own interest , but the greater number soon return to their homes , and indulge themselves with a second visit to the metropolis in the idle time of the year . Having given several instances of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acres advantage afford agricultural America amount annual believed benefit Britain cattle cause climate colonists colony consideration consist cost course Crown demand Diemen's Land district emigrants England equal establishment evil exist expense Exports fact families flocks formed funds future give Government greater growth head hope houses Imports improve increase inhabitants instance interest invested labour leave less live means 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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