 | mrs. Augustus Prinsep - 1833 - 136 pages
...convicts, or, as they are delicately called, the prisoners, supply all demands of this nature; and if the histories of every house were made public,...murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy ! But these formidable truths are hushed up, or tried to be so. The owner of a pretty pigeon-house,... | |
 | Augustus Prinsep, Mrs. Augustus Prinsep - Straits Settlements - 1833 - 162 pages
...convicts, or, as they are delicately called, the prisoners, supply all demands of this nature; and if the histories of every house were made public,...murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy ! But these formidable truths are hushed up, or tried to be so. The owner of a pretty pigeon-house,... | |
 | Asia - 1833 - 824 pages
...better known." If the history of every house were made public, she observes, it would make Europeans shudder. " Even in our small menage, our cook has...murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy: but these formidable truths are hushed up!" This article would be incomplete without some notice of... | |
 | Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 pages
...delicately called, the prisoners, supply all demands of this nature ; and if the histories of every IMMUC were made public, you would shudder. Even in our small menage our cook ha» committed murder, oar footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy '. But these formidable truths... | |
 | Tasmania - 1834 - 374 pages
...convicts, or, as they are delicately called, the prisoners, supply all demands of this nature ; and if the histories of every house were made public,...murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy ! But these formidable truths are hushed up, or tried to be so. " The owner of a pretty pigeon-house,... | |
 | Henry Watson - South Australia - 1838 - 44 pages
...convicts, or as they are delicately called, ' the prisoners,' supply all demands of this nature; and if the histories of every house were made public, you would shudder: even in our small menage, очг cook has com. mittcd murder, our footman burglary, and our housemaid bigamy!" The state 'of... | |
 | John Stephens - South Australia - 1839 - 256 pages
...convicts, or, as they are delicately called, ' the prisoners,' supply all demands of this nature ; and if the histories of every house were made public,...cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and our housemaid bigamy!" The state of morality in a country is tolerably well indicated by the consumption... | |
 | John Stephens - South Australia - 1839 - 268 pages
...called, ' the prisoners,' supply all demands of this nature ; and if the histories of every house wefe made public, you would shudder; even in our small...cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and our housemaid bigamy!" The state of morality in a country is tolerably well indicated by the consumption... | |
 | John Stephens - South Australia - 1839 - 262 pages
...convicts, or, as they are delicately called, ' the prisoners,' supply all demands of this nature ; and if the histories of every house were made public, you would shudder; even incur small menage, our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and our housemaid bigamy!"... | |
 | John Stephens - South Australia - 1839 - 266 pages
...or, as they arc delicately railed, ' the prisoners,' supply nil demands of this rature ; nnd if thu histories of every house were made public, you would shudder; even in our «null menagn, our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and our housemaid bigamy !"' The... | |
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... supply all demands of this nature ; and if the histories of every house were made public, you would shudder. Even in our small menage, our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy ! But these formidable truths are... 
