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Page 117 - How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record
Page 124 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 69 - And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...
Page 69 - States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you.
Page 40 - Morumbidgee, that we were carried nearly to the bank opposite its embouchure, whilst we continued to gaze in silent astonishment on the capacious channel we had entered; and when we looked for that by which we had been led into it, we could hardly believe that the insignificant gap that presented itself to us was, indeed, the termination of the beautiful and noble stream, whose course we had thus successfully followed.
Page 17 - A large flock of gannets was observed at daylight, to issue out of the Great Bight to the southward ; and they were followed by such a number of the sooty petrels as we had never seen equalled. There was a stream of from fifty to eighty yards in depth, and of three hundred yards or more in breadth ; the birds were not scattered, but flying as compactly as a free movement of their wings seemed to allow ; and during a full hour and a half, this stream of petrels continued to pass without interruption,...
Page 6 - Their hair is black, short and curled, like that of the Negroes; and not long and lank like the common Indians. The colour of their skins, both of their faces and the rest of their body, is coal black, like that of the Negroes of Guinea.
Page 104 - Macquarie adopts it as a principle, "that long-tried good conduct should lead a man back to that rank in society which he had forfeited, and do away, in as far as the case will admit, all retrospect of former bad conduct": This appears to him to be the greatest "inducement that can be held out towards the reformation of the manners of the inhabitants".
Page 69 - ... said territory or any of the said islands, with directions to obey such orders and instructions as shall from time to time be given to you under our Signet and Sign-Manual, or by our order in our Privy Council.
Page 8 - We searched afterwards three days, in hopes to find their houses; but found none; yet we saw many places where they had made fires. At last, being out of hopes to find their habitations, we searched no farther; but left a great many toys ashore, in such places where we thought that they would come. In all our search we found no water, but old wells on the sandy bays.
References to this book
Forgotten Hero: Richard Bourke, Irish-Born Governor of New South Wales, 1831 ... Max Waugh No preview available - 2005 |