Colonial Sketches: Or, Five Years in South Australia, with Hints to Capitalists and EmigrantsHall, Virtue, 1862 - 167 strán (strany) |
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Strana 79
... hope that this will ever take place , for the people , it must be confessed , take so little interest in the realities that they will not be very enthusiastic after their pictorial representations on canvass . A gal- lery of these ...
... hope that this will ever take place , for the people , it must be confessed , take so little interest in the realities that they will not be very enthusiastic after their pictorial representations on canvass . A gal- lery of these ...
Strana 86
... hope of picking up a few golden crumbs for the good of divine objects , resulting , perhaps , in the munificent donation of old Gospel Trumpets and Evangelical Reformers for distribution among the poor benighted heathen . On one ...
... hope of picking up a few golden crumbs for the good of divine objects , resulting , perhaps , in the munificent donation of old Gospel Trumpets and Evangelical Reformers for distribution among the poor benighted heathen . On one ...
Strana 104
... hope of perhaps gaining sufficient capital to leave the land of summer skies at the shortest notice . The Judges , after long delibera- tion , and no doubt wearied with the whole affair , as being so much out of their line of business ...
... hope of perhaps gaining sufficient capital to leave the land of summer skies at the shortest notice . The Judges , after long delibera- tion , and no doubt wearied with the whole affair , as being so much out of their line of business ...
Strana 110
... Hope ) , who at an early age began to appreciate the value of money and the charms of high interest , and could not bear to see current coin expended freely for the purchase of dear liquors . Young Cheatem concocted a notable scheme ...
... Hope ) , who at an early age began to appreciate the value of money and the charms of high interest , and could not bear to see current coin expended freely for the purchase of dear liquors . Young Cheatem concocted a notable scheme ...
Strana 126
... hope of constant work , the chance of gold , a better climate , and undoubted resources . The unfortunate colony of Western Australia sends them a balance of 53 , who apparently prefer even South Australia to the attractions of their ...
... hope of constant work , the chance of gold , a better climate , and undoubted resources . The unfortunate colony of Western Australia sends them a balance of 53 , who apparently prefer even South Australia to the attractions of their ...
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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.