The New Colony of Victoria, Formly Port Phillip: With Some Account of the Other Australian ColoniesT. Saunders, 1851 - 85 páginas |
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... exist of from £ 500 to £ 3,000 a year ; and these chiefly in the possession of persons who commenced their pursuits with a capital less than their present annual income . But are there still the means of obtaining PRESENT PROSPECTS FOR ...
... exist of from £ 500 to £ 3,000 a year ; and these chiefly in the possession of persons who commenced their pursuits with a capital less than their present annual income . But are there still the means of obtaining PRESENT PROSPECTS FOR ...
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... exist of outrages by the aborigines . It is to be lamented that this does not proceed from any improvement in their civilization ; they are still the same wanderers as at first , with no clothing but their opossum cloaks , or old ...
... exist of outrages by the aborigines . It is to be lamented that this does not proceed from any improvement in their civilization ; they are still the same wanderers as at first , with no clothing but their opossum cloaks , or old ...
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... exist ; and as it is impos- sible for any one traveller to have visited localities so widely separated , it can easily be imagined that the most conflicting statements should be made with perfect truth . The same may be said with regard ...
... exist ; and as it is impos- sible for any one traveller to have visited localities so widely separated , it can easily be imagined that the most conflicting statements should be made with perfect truth . The same may be said with regard ...
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... exist , not live ; " " Here we breathe champagne ; " such is the language of writers on this subject . These statements are exaggerated ; greater variations of heat or cold are scarcely to be met with in any part of the world . Thin ice ...
... exist , not live ; " " Here we breathe champagne ; " such is the language of writers on this subject . These statements are exaggerated ; greater variations of heat or cold are scarcely to be met with in any part of the world . Thin ice ...
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... exist in a new country if they are equal to the males : unemployed , and unprotected in many instances by their natural guardians , and exposed to tempt- ations of no ordinary character , many may be almost driven to a life of vice ...
... exist in a new country if they are equal to the males : unemployed , and unprotected in many instances by their natural guardians , and exposed to tempt- ations of no ordinary character , many may be almost driven to a life of vice ...
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Términos y frases comunes
aborigines acres advantage afford agricultural America amount annual annum Australian colonies AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY benefit boundless Britain Cape cattle cent climate colonists convict cost crime Crown revenues demand for labour depasturing Diemen's Land district Emigration Commissioners England establishment evil expense Exports families flocks Government hope horses House of Lords immigrants Imports increase inhabitants instance interest invested less means Melbourne ment ministers of religion mother country nation nature neighbouring obtained Parramatta pastoral penal Phillip and South Poor Law Unions population Port Phillip position possesses probably produce progress prosperity prove purchased pursuits Ragged Schools scarcely secured sent settlement settlers sheep shepherd soil sold South Australia South Wales proper squatter statements station success supply Swan River Sydney tion town trade United Kingdom Van Diemen's Land wages wants wealth WESTERN AUSTRALIA wild wool and tallow 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...