A History of New South, Wales: From Its Settlement to the Close of the Year 1844, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1846 - New South Wales |
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1843 INCLUSIVE Aborigines acres amount appears appointed Bank beauty Bill Bishop of Australia blessings British building called character Christian Church of England clergy clergymen colony considerable convicts Crown lands Diemen's Land Diocese ditto duty emigration establish evil Excellency Exports extended feel feet females Godna Governor granted harbour head honour House hundred Hyde Park Barracks immigrants Institution interesting Island labours late Legislative Council Leprena license Lord Lord Glenelg Macquarie Majesty Majesty's Majesty's government Mena ment miles minister natives Norfolk Island object opinion Paramatta persons Police population Port Phillip possess present principles prosperity protest quit-rents received recommend referred religion respect RETURN revenue River Roman Catholic schools Select Committee Session sheep Sir George Gipps situate South Wales Street Thomas Brisbane thousand tion Total town Van Diemen's Land waste lands youth zeal
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Page 256 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Page 164 - Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 216 - Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Page 147 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 334 - England, with all thy faults, I love thee still — My country ! and, while yet a nook is left, Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
Page 165 - For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to Godward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
Page 133 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord : and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
Page 169 - Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Page 167 - Resides in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, — Never sighed at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a Sabbath appeared.
Page 268 - FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. •. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree; And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow thee.