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Page 98
... English as well as Kentish renown , whilst outside . gardens and avenues , only too rare in Western Australia , are being laid out on Mr. Amherst's designs . Moderately endowed younger sons of the English nobility might do worse than ...
... English as well as Kentish renown , whilst outside . gardens and avenues , only too rare in Western Australia , are being laid out on Mr. Amherst's designs . Moderately endowed younger sons of the English nobility might do worse than ...
Page 99
... English gentlemen , Mr. Amherst has perhaps better fulfilled his life mission as an unconscious . apostle of light and sweetness in Western Australia than he would have done had he adhered to English fleshpots , and lived the ...
... English gentlemen , Mr. Amherst has perhaps better fulfilled his life mission as an unconscious . apostle of light and sweetness in Western Australia than he would have done had he adhered to English fleshpots , and lived the ...
Page 109
... English organisations of a semi - philanthropic character are all handicapped by a want of local knowledge and the absence of what is called " colonial experience . " The land - grant conces- sionaires were originally pledged to the ...
... English organisations of a semi - philanthropic character are all handicapped by a want of local knowledge and the absence of what is called " colonial experience . " The land - grant conces- sionaires were originally pledged to the ...
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