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 1
... meet to celebrate the majority of our colony . As a child , South Australia attracted more than ordinary notice . It could never be called feeble , or dull , or idle . It always had vivacity , energy , and confidence quite equal to its ...
... meet to celebrate the majority of our colony . As a child , South Australia attracted more than ordinary notice . It could never be called feeble , or dull , or idle . It always had vivacity , energy , and confidence quite equal to its ...
Strana 54
... meet - have nothing to say - adjourn for a week , and repeat the former performance until the Colo- nial Gladstone of the Lower House ( a gentleman formerly in the tea line - then out of a situation— afterwards in the jam trade , before ...
... meet - have nothing to say - adjourn for a week , and repeat the former performance until the Colo- nial Gladstone of the Lower House ( a gentleman formerly in the tea line - then out of a situation— afterwards in the jam trade , before ...
Strana 60
... meet earlier in the day , and he , therefore , proposed one o'clock as a satisfactory hour , as it would afford time for refreshment . THE PREMIER also thought is was highly desirable for the Honourable Members to meet early in the day ...
... meet earlier in the day , and he , therefore , proposed one o'clock as a satisfactory hour , as it would afford time for refreshment . THE PREMIER also thought is was highly desirable for the Honourable Members to meet early in the day ...
Strana 82
... meet with due appreciation from the present colonists , who in fact have no time to lose if they wish to perpetuate the noble countenances of some of their older and enterprising friends who are each year throwing off the mortal coil ...
... meet with due appreciation from the present colonists , who in fact have no time to lose if they wish to perpetuate the noble countenances of some of their older and enterprising friends who are each year throwing off the mortal coil ...
Strana 83
... meet with a Christian Phi- lanthropist , or at least a philanthropist leaving out the particle applying to Christianity ? Did you ever meet with a rich man who told with a sinister look that his word was as good as his bond ; and ...
... meet with a Christian Phi- lanthropist , or at least a philanthropist leaving out the particle applying to Christianity ? Did you ever meet with a rich man who told with a sinister look that his word was as good as his bond ; and ...
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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.