 | David Goodman - 1994 - 344 páginas
...voyage. John Fitzgerald Leslie Foster, soon to be Victorian Colonial Secretary, observed in 1851 that: It is one of the characteristics of Australian society,...recommends his friends to proceed home via India and Egypt . . . No wonder that one is struck with the 'travelled aspect', if we may use the phrase, of Australian... | |
 | John Michael Bennett - 2004 - 268 páginas
...Victoria (Melbourne 1888), 109110. JFL Foster, The New Colony of Victoria (London 1851), 74, wrote, "It is one of the characteristics of Australian society,...also been more or less forced to use their minds". 22. My Recollections, 125. 23. Id"., 19-20. 24. Id., 20; "Garryowen", op. et he. cit. n.18. 25. Albion... | |
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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.... 