Colonization: Particularly in Southern Australia: with Some Remarks on Small Farms and Over Population |
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... force . Such then are my demands , and my motives for making them . " I admit that these dangers , as regards capital , may not arise ; but , unless there is proof that they cannot arise , they ought to be prepared for ; X.
... force . Such then are my demands , and my motives for making them . " I admit that these dangers , as regards capital , may not arise ; but , unless there is proof that they cannot arise , they ought to be prepared for ; X.
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... danger , ventured to encounter it without sufficient preparation ! I do trust that your lordship will do me the justice to believe , that I am not in any way deficient in zeal for His Ma- jesty's Service , when I say , that unless the ...
... danger , ventured to encounter it without sufficient preparation ! I do trust that your lordship will do me the justice to believe , that I am not in any way deficient in zeal for His Ma- jesty's Service , when I say , that unless the ...
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... the self supporting principle which proved so eminently successful , with respect to the first British Colonies in North America will not in South Australia involve any of the dangers against which your demands are intended to XV.
... the self supporting principle which proved so eminently successful , with respect to the first British Colonies in North America will not in South Australia involve any of the dangers against which your demands are intended to XV.
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... dangers against which your demands are intended to provide . " I have the honour to be , Sir , " Your most obedient Servant , " ROWLAND HILL , Secretary . 66 " To COLONEL NAPIER , C.B. 88 , High - street , Portsmouth . " As His ...
... dangers against which your demands are intended to provide . " I have the honour to be , Sir , " Your most obedient Servant , " ROWLAND HILL , Secretary . 66 " To COLONEL NAPIER , C.B. 88 , High - street , Portsmouth . " As His ...
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... with the real responsibility resting upon me ; to do so would be to work with a halter round my neck . Nothing is so dangerous , publicly or privately , as responsibility without power . Paragraph 3 . " At the same time they cannot xviii.
... with the real responsibility resting upon me ; to do so would be to work with a halter round my neck . Nothing is so dangerous , publicly or privately , as responsibility without power . Paragraph 3 . " At the same time they cannot xviii.
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Page 256 - Assembly ; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, his heirs and...
Page 253 - Council, to erect within that part of Australia which lies between the meridians of the one hundred and thirty-second and one hundred and fortyfirst degrees of east longitude, and between the southern ocean and...
Page 255 - ... with the seal of the said board, shall be received as evidence of the same respectively...
Page v - But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, An' there's the foe, He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted doubtings tease him: Death comes, wi' fearless eye he sees him; Wi' bluidy hand a welcome gies him : An' when he fa's, His latest draught o' breathin lea'es him In faint huzzas.
Page 166 - I observed four men at the top of their speed. The foremost of them as soon as he got ahead of the boat, threw himself from a considerable height into the water. He struggled across the channel to the sand-bank, and in an incredibly short space of time stood in front of the savage, against whom my aim had been directed. Seizing him by the throat, he pushed him backwards, and forcing all who were in the water upon the bank, he trod its margin with a vehemence and an agitation that were exceedingly...
Page 260 - Provided also, and be it enacted that nothing herein contained shall be deemed, construed, or taken to extend to the imprisonment of any person before the first day of June one thousand...
Page 104 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Page 254 - That it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, by any Order or Orders to be by Him or them made, with the Advice of His or their Privy Council, to make, ordain, and {subject to such Conditions and Restrictions as to Him or them...
Page 258 - Report shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within Six Weeks after the Receipt of the same by such Principal Secretary of State, if Parliament be then sitting, or if Parliament be not sitting then within Six Weeks after the next Meeting thereof.
Page 166 - ... in the water upon the bank, he trod its margin with a vehemence and an agitation that were exceedingly striking. At one moment pointing to the boat, at another shaking his clenched hand in the faces of the most forward, and stamping with passion on the sand; his voice, that was at first distinct and clear, was lost in hoarse murmurs. Two of the four natives remained on the left bank of the river, but the third followed his leader, (who proved to be the remarkable savage I have previously noticed)...