Colonial Sketches: Or, Five Years in South Australia, with Hints to Capitalists and EmigrantsHall, Virtue, 1862 - 167 strán (strany) |
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Strana 4
... country land was not made until May , 1838 , nearly two years after the first body of colonists had arrived in the province . It is not surprising that a bad feeling In should spring up between the Governor and Resi- dent Commissioner 4.
... country land was not made until May , 1838 , nearly two years after the first body of colonists had arrived in the province . It is not surprising that a bad feeling In should spring up between the Governor and Resi- dent Commissioner 4.
Strana 8
... nearly all the male adult population in their anxiety to finger a little of their neighbour's cash ; and a wag suggested that a placard should be affixed to a pole on one side of Kangaroo Island , informing the wayfaring public that ...
... nearly all the male adult population in their anxiety to finger a little of their neighbour's cash ; and a wag suggested that a placard should be affixed to a pole on one side of Kangaroo Island , informing the wayfaring public that ...
Strana 12
... nearly two months out of the twelve or a sixth part of the year , the unfortunate inhabitants of Adelaide are subject to a climate characterized as being intensely hot , and a struggle for life to endure it . The following are the ...
... nearly two months out of the twelve or a sixth part of the year , the unfortunate inhabitants of Adelaide are subject to a climate characterized as being intensely hot , and a struggle for life to endure it . The following are the ...
Strana 17
... Heat observed in Gawler Town , South Australia , being nearly 6o higher than the greatest natural heat hitherto observed in the world by any traveller . B The following extracts are taken verbatim from the Adelaide Observer 17.
... Heat observed in Gawler Town , South Australia , being nearly 6o higher than the greatest natural heat hitherto observed in the world by any traveller . B The following extracts are taken verbatim from the Adelaide Observer 17.
Strana 22
... nearly all the colonists are involuntarily made to bleed for their adopted country . If this was only a partial inflic- tion , and lasted a short time , it might hardly be worth expatiating upon , but as these insects revel in ferocity ...
... nearly all the colonists are involuntarily made to bleed for their adopted country . If this was only a partial inflic- tion , and lasted a short time , it might hardly be worth expatiating upon , but as these insects revel in ferocity ...
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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.