 | William Campbell - 1855 - 276 páginas
...by them from the Americans, who used it to designate a very different class. Among them may be found men retired from their professions, whether clerical,...mode of living, and many were the privations of the early settlers; but a great change in their condition has taken place, partly from the increase of... | |
 | 1877 - 798 páginas
...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." There might also be found among them, however, prudent overseers, and even shepherds and stock-riders... | |
 | 1876 - 514 páginas
...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." There might also be found among them, however, prudent overseers, and even shepherds and stock-riders... | |
 | 1877 - 790 páginas
...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." There might also be found among them, however, prudent overseers, and even shepherds and stock-riders... | |
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... 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... 