New South Wales; Its Present State and Future Prospects: Being a Statement, with Documentary EvidenceD. Walther, 1837 - 640 páginas Annotated with notes by Archdeacon J. H. Scott. |
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Página 277 - tis the grand enemy of truth and peace, and all the ordinances of God are bent against it. But there is a civil, a moral, a federal liberty, which is the proper end and object of authority; it is a liberty for that only which is just and good; for this liberty you are to stand with the hazard of your very lives, and whatsoever crosses it is not authority, but a distemper thereof.
Página 236 - And every city, town, or district, containing five hundred families, or householders, shall be provided with such teacher or teachers for such term of time as shall be equivalent to twenty-four...
Página 65 - The entire man is, so to speak, to be seen in the cradle of the child. The growth of nations presents something analogous to this: they all bear some marks of their origin; and the circumstances which accompanied their birth and contributed to their rise affect the whole term of their being.
Página 246 - I may without fear of contradiction assert that in no part of the world is the general education of the People a more sacred and necessary duty of the Government than in New South Wales.
Página 243 - Country . . . those schools ... in which Christians of all Creeds are received, where approved Extracts from Scripture are read, but no religious instruction is given by the Master or Mistress, such being imparted on one day in the week by the Ministers of the different religions, attending at the School to instruct their respective flocks. I am certain that the Colonists...
Página 244 - Bill to promote the Building of Churches and Chapels, and to provide for the Maintenance of Ministers of Religion in New South Wales...
Página 149 - ... itself. If there be any justice in this argument, it derives force from the circumstance that this colony is made the receptacle for the outcasts of the United Kingdom, and is, consequently, loaded with a vast disproportion of immoral people. That the colonists have derived many advantages from the transportation of convicts, cannot be denied ; but the system has brought with it a long train of moral evils, which can only be counteracted by an extensive introduction of free and virtuous inhabitants...
Página 37 - Armstrong, an overseer, who was acquitted ^upon a false charge brought against him by a convict under his superintendance, of shooting at him with intent to murder. He referred to the case of Cowan and his wife, who were acquitted of the murder of a man named Kerr, as embodying in itself % a picture of those evils with which the colony is visited. These persons, and one Campbell, and the deceased Kerr, lived near Liverpool, and kept an unlicensed still, and a house to which the gangs of prisoners...
Página 43 - He had been induced, by what had been proved before him in that court, gravely to consider the question of convicts working in gangs, out of irons, and felt convinced it was one of the most fruitful sources of crime to be found in the colony. He had before him a return, from which it appeared that the number of convicts at this time employed upon the roads is 2,240, of whom 1,104 are out of irons ! and...
Página 174 - ... ewes of which his flocks were composed, with Spanish rams. The lambs produced from this cross were much improved ; but when they were again crossed, the change far exceeded his most sanguine expectations. In four crosses, he is of opinion, no distinction will be perceptible between the pure and the mixed breed. As a proof of the extraordinary and rapid improvement of his flocks, Captain...