A Documentary History of Australia: Colonial Australia, 1788-1840Nelson, 1980 - Australia |
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Page 106
... labour the least beneficial . Nor can it be so productive as if guided by the will and for the self - intrest of an industrious individual , which is very obvious by comparing the settlers who have just emerged from that state and the ...
... labour the least beneficial . Nor can it be so productive as if guided by the will and for the self - intrest of an industrious individual , which is very obvious by comparing the settlers who have just emerged from that state and the ...
Page 253
... labour of the whole day was exacted from the convicts ; and this rule was not relaxed until a scarcity of provisions having occurred , their labour ceased at three o'clock on each day , to enable them to work at gardens in the town of ...
... labour of the whole day was exacted from the convicts ; and this rule was not relaxed until a scarcity of provisions having occurred , their labour ceased at three o'clock on each day , to enable them to work at gardens in the town of ...
Page 332
... labour has not hitherto been found , in any sensible degree , more prejudicial to the health of those employed on it , than any other species of hard labour ; and there as yet appears , therefore , no sufficient reason for objecting to ...
... labour has not hitherto been found , in any sensible degree , more prejudicial to the health of those employed on it , than any other species of hard labour ; and there as yet appears , therefore , no sufficient reason for objecting to ...
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