Colonial Sketches: Or, Five Years in South Australia, with Hints to Capitalists and EmigrantsHall, Virtue, 1862 - 167 strán (strany) |
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Strana 24
... habits of these insects . In the suburbs of Adelaide , is a village called Nor- wood ( in fact another square mile of imaginary streets and squares ) , in imitation of the Great Me- tropolis . In a fashionable locality , called the Sy ...
... habits of these insects . In the suburbs of Adelaide , is a village called Nor- wood ( in fact another square mile of imaginary streets and squares ) , in imitation of the Great Me- tropolis . In a fashionable locality , called the Sy ...
Strana 35
... villages of Bowden and Hindmarsh are memorable instances to what habits many of the select emigrants are reduced to after a short sojourn on the parched plains of South Australia . The " " village of Bowden is the most desolate of 35.
... villages of Bowden and Hindmarsh are memorable instances to what habits many of the select emigrants are reduced to after a short sojourn on the parched plains of South Australia . The " " village of Bowden is the most desolate of 35.
Strana 42
... habit . A prize ox could not have been subject to more in- dignities than this unfortunate youth . A second- rate circus is also a luxury to the many , especially to those of a pious turn of mind , who can visit the circus while ...
... habit . A prize ox could not have been subject to more in- dignities than this unfortunate youth . A second- rate circus is also a luxury to the many , especially to those of a pious turn of mind , who can visit the circus while ...
Strana 64
... habits of one of their agents in London , who , according to accounts received from some superior butcher who has wandered to the great metropolis , indulges in easy chairs , and in spite of the luxurious and unnecessary accommoda- tion ...
... habits of one of their agents in London , who , according to accounts received from some superior butcher who has wandered to the great metropolis , indulges in easy chairs , and in spite of the luxurious and unnecessary accommoda- tion ...
Strana 75
... habits . I have , in some instances , been astonished to observe the gradual progress of mean and sordid feelings often combined with dis- orderly habits in persons whom I have known to have held a respectable colonial position some ...
... habits . I have , in some instances , been astonished to observe the gradual progress of mean and sordid feelings often combined with dis- orderly habits in persons whom I have known to have held a respectable colonial position some ...
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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 Nobblerize 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.