 | S.W. Silver & Co - 1880 - 522 lehte
...Arabs of the Desert within a circle traced upon their sands, as to confine the graziers or wool growers of New South "Wales within any bounds that can possibly be assigned to them.' Collisions with the natives beyond the boundaries of the settled district called for the organisation... | |
 | Richard Charles Mills - 1915 - 402 lehte
...attempted to confine the Arabs of the desert within a circle traced upon their sands," he wrote in 1 840, " as to confine the graziers or wool-growers of New...any bounds that can possibly be assigned to them."' Wakefield's doctrine of a sufficient price did not in any way appeal to him. " The only sufficient... | |
 | Stephen Henry Roberts - 1924 - 528 lehte
...benefit. "As well might it be attempted to confine the Arabs of the desert within a circle drawn on the sands, as to confine the graziers or wool-growers...be assigned to them ; and as certainly as the Arabs 16. 1840 Emigration Committee of NSW Council, p. 40. See flg. 23. would be starved so also would the... | |
 | Ernest Scott - 1925 - 432 lehte
...the prosperity of the colony. ' As well attempt to confine an Arab within a circle traced on sand, as to confine the graziers or wool-growers of New South Wales within bounds that can possibly be assigned to them,' wrote Governor Gipps in 1840. But it was clearly necessary... | |
 | Rob Linn - 1999 - 236 lehte
...impossible, he admitted, to force people into agricultural cultivation and to stop the growth of squatting: 'As well might it be attempted to confine the Arabs...any bounds that can possibly be assigned to them.' He saw that squatters did not have 'secure possession' of their country and wanted a mechanism whereby... | |
 | Stuart Macintyre - 1999 - 340 lehte
...the 1844 measure remarked that 'As well might it be attempted to confine the Arabs of the Desert ... as to confine the Graziers or Woolgrowers of New South Wales within any bounds.' Nor was assisted migration as sharp a break with the past as was hoped. Under a bounty system, agents... | |
 | John Gascoigne - 2002 - 256 lehte
...successor, Gipps, conceded their inevitability. In 1840 he urged the Colonial Secretary to recognise that As well might it be attempted to confine the Arabs...or Woolgrowers of New South Wales within any bounds than can possibly be assigned to them: and as certainly as the Arabs would be starved, so also would... | |
 | A. G. L. Shaw - 2003 - 372 lehte
...squatting and was 'a good thing'. He and other 'arm-chair' colonial theorists did not appreciate that 'as well might it be attempted to confine the Arabs...any bounds that can possibly be assigned to them', as Gipps put it in a well-known passage.22 Horrified by 'dispersion', the government tried to stop... | |
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As well might it be attempted to confine the Arabs of the Desert within a circle, traced upon their sands, as to confine the Graziers or Woolgrowers of New South Wales within any bounds that can possibly be assigned to them... 