Colonial Sketches: Or, Five Years in South Australia, with Hints to Capitalists and EmigrantsHall, Virtue, 1862 - 167 strán (strany) This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy! |
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Strana 6
... amount of capital constantly floating in the colony , and gave employment to numbers of emigrants , but the result was , as large sums of money were ex- pended in carrying out these works raised by bills on the Commissioners , under the ...
... amount of capital constantly floating in the colony , and gave employment to numbers of emigrants , but the result was , as large sums of money were ex- pended in carrying out these works raised by bills on the Commissioners , under the ...
Strana 26
... amount of harmony , and invite their friends to a musical re - union , enough to give you an incipient headache . Another ds- tinguished bird , peculiar , I believe , to Australi ; and , on account of its purity of note and harmony of ...
... amount of harmony , and invite their friends to a musical re - union , enough to give you an incipient headache . Another ds- tinguished bird , peculiar , I believe , to Australi ; and , on account of its purity of note and harmony of ...
Strana 40
... amount , for horses that never won a race , which is sure to be well patronised . There is a theatre in Adelaide which is sometimes opened during the winter months , but it is not well attended , as many who really like theatrical ...
... amount , for horses that never won a race , which is sure to be well patronised . There is a theatre in Adelaide which is sometimes opened during the winter months , but it is not well attended , as many who really like theatrical ...
Strana 42
... amount of mu- sical knowledge , supposed to be a pupil of Men- delssohn , but , in reality , the produce of an isolated town on the borders of Continental civilization , where the magic name of that composer had hardly penetrated , who ...
... amount of mu- sical knowledge , supposed to be a pupil of Men- delssohn , but , in reality , the produce of an isolated town on the borders of Continental civilization , where the magic name of that composer had hardly penetrated , who ...
Strana 52
... amount . With this little episode of superior colonial morality , I conclude my epitome of the principal Domestic Comforts which the emigrant to South Australia will have to indulge in . CHAPTER IX . LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL . " Most potent , ...
... amount . With this little episode of superior colonial morality , I conclude my epitome of the principal Domestic Comforts which the emigrant to South Australia will have to indulge in . CHAPTER IX . LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL . " Most potent , ...
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Colonial Sketches: Or, Five Years in South Australia, with Hints to ... Robert Harrison Úplné zobrazenie - 1862 |
Colonial Sketches: Or, Five Years in South Australia, with Hints to ... Robert Harrison Úplné zobrazenie - 1862 |
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acres amount amusement arrival Australian Shepherd bills bottle Burra Burra Burra Bush called capital capitalist cash cattle CHAPTER Cheatem Christian climate colonial wine colonists commercial compelled cottage countenance delightful Destitute Asylum destitution Diseases disgust dust effrontery emigrants endeavour England English extent fact feelings flies friends garden Gawler gentleman give Government habits heat Honourable hot winds House of Assembly imagine indignant informed inhabitants labour land leave look manner ment miles month mortgage nature neighbours NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE NOBBLER observed obtain occasion paid patriots peculiar perhaps perpetual persons poor population Port Adelaide possess pounds principles probably province pursuits rate of interest respectable River Torrens season servant shade sheep sirocco SONG OF AUSTRALIA South Australia specimen square miles statistics supposed talent temperature thermometer timated tion total number town tralia unfortunate Universal Suffrage vermin Victoria Whoskietoddie worthy
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Strana 87 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Strana 21 - They will not live together, but every chigoe sets up a separate ulcer, and has his own private portion of pus. Flies get entry into your mouth, into your eyes, into your nose; you eat flies, drink flies, and breathe flies. Lizards, cockroaches, and snakes, get into the bed; ants eat up the books; scorpions sting you on the foot.
Strana 162 - In harmonies: And grassy knoll and forest height Are flushing in the rosy light And all above is azure bright, Australia, Australia, Australia.
Strana 114 - I give you that orange," which one would think would be what is called in legal phraseology, •" an absolute conveyance of all right and title therein," the phrase would run thus : "I give you all and singular my estate and interest, right, title, and claim, and advantage of and in that orange, with all its rind, skin, juice, pulp and pips, and all right and...
Strana 101 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Strana 21 - An insect with eleven legs is swimming in your teacup, a nondescript with nine wings is struggling in the small beer, or a caterpillar with several dozen eyes in his belly is hastening over...
Strana 120 - An apothecary, a lawyer's clerk, three sailors, a counting-house clerk, a tailor, a Jew, a For- : tuguese sailor, a Cingalese, a barman, a gentleman's son, a broken-down merchant, a former lieutenant in the East India Company's service, a gipsy, a black fiddler, and a dancingmaster.
Strana 114 - AB am now entitled to bite, cut, suck, or otherwise eat the same orange, or give the same away, with or without its rind, skin, juice, pulp...
Strana 83 - Oh for a forty-parson power (') to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy ! Oh for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise ! Oh for...
Strana 138 - Rattle his bones over the stones! He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns.