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It was more natural, he believed, to be taught to know all those productions of
nature in preference to Greek and Latin. It remained the ruling passion of his life,
and lingered long after the fires of love and ambition had died in his breast. In
1766 ...
It was more natural, he believed, to be taught to know all those productions of
nature in preference to Greek and Latin. It remained the ruling passion of his life,
and lingered long after the fires of love and ambition had died in his breast. In
1766 ...
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Macquarie believed in leniency; Bigge recommended a maintenance of that
degree of severity and vigour by which alone, in his view, the punishment of
transportation might be made a subject of dread even to the worst offenders.5
Macquarie ...
Macquarie believed in leniency; Bigge recommended a maintenance of that
degree of severity and vigour by which alone, in his view, the punishment of
transportation might be made a subject of dread even to the worst offenders.5
Macquarie ...
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Bigge believed that a more judicious and more liberal distribution would have
been preferable to the government monopolizing the useful convicts, subsisting
them at government expense and forcing upon the settlers a mass of useless and
...
Bigge believed that a more judicious and more liberal distribution would have
been preferable to the government monopolizing the useful convicts, subsisting
them at government expense and forcing upon the settlers a mass of useless and
...
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Contents
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE PROTESTANTS | 21 |
THE SONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 42 |
THE CHOICE OF BOTANY BAY | 59 |
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