A History of New South Wales,: From Its Settlement to the Close of the Year 1844, 1. köideR. Bentley, 1846 |
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... Australia are not of that pleasing character , which suggested to the poet the expression " Labor ipse voluptas . " While his fellow - citizens , the Great Republic of Letters at home , trim their lamps at leisure , and relax their bows ...
... Australia are not of that pleasing character , which suggested to the poet the expression " Labor ipse voluptas . " While his fellow - citizens , the Great Republic of Letters at home , trim their lamps at leisure , and relax their bows ...
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... Australia , " I am greatly indebted to Charles Nicholson , Esq . , M.D. M.L.C .; a gentleman to whom the Australian Public are under many and lasting obligations . I have also to acknowledge the assistance , I have received from George ...
... Australia , " I am greatly indebted to Charles Nicholson , Esq . , M.D. M.L.C .; a gentleman to whom the Australian Public are under many and lasting obligations . I have also to acknowledge the assistance , I have received from George ...
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... COLLEGE GROUNDS · ST . ANDREW'S CATHEDRAL ST . PHILIP'S CHURCH ST . DAVID'S ( HOBART TOWN ) To Face the Title . Page 161 163 · 183 ST . JOHN'S CHURCH 201 SYDNEY COLLEGE 204 NEW GOVERNMENT HOUSE 292 AUSTRALIAN LIBRARY 301 307.
... COLLEGE GROUNDS · ST . ANDREW'S CATHEDRAL ST . PHILIP'S CHURCH ST . DAVID'S ( HOBART TOWN ) To Face the Title . Page 161 163 · 183 ST . JOHN'S CHURCH 201 SYDNEY COLLEGE 204 NEW GOVERNMENT HOUSE 292 AUSTRALIAN LIBRARY 301 307.
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... Australia , New Zealand and New Guinea ; but while the latter with its group of sister islands , forming a connect- ing link between Asia and Australia , has been hardly explored , the former with their dependencies have become British ...
... Australia , New Zealand and New Guinea ; but while the latter with its group of sister islands , forming a connect- ing link between Asia and Australia , has been hardly explored , the former with their dependencies have become British ...
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... Australia down to the naming and taking possession of New South Wales by Cook , the Navigator ; the formation of a penal settlement at Port Jackson , or Sydney under Cap- tain Phillip , the first Governor of the territory ; and a brief ...
... Australia down to the naming and taking possession of New South Wales by Cook , the Navigator ; the formation of a penal settlement at Port Jackson , or Sydney under Cap- tain Phillip , the first Governor of the territory ; and a brief ...
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Page 104 - Providence ; and the latter would certainly require more labour than can be obtained in the colony, or immigration profitably supply. Independently of these powerful reasons for allowing dispersion, it is not to be disguised that the Government is unable to prevent it. No adequate measures could be resorted to for the general and permanent removal of intruders from waste lands, without incurring, probably, a greater expense than would be sufficient to extend a large share of the control and protection...
Page 155 - 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 ; and the only means upon which the colonists can safely rely for accomplishing this vital object is the revenue arising from the sale of lands.