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Page 23
... situation when the Supply arrived in Port Jackson bringing back news of the wreck of the Sirius : Dismay was painted on every countenance , when the tidings were proclaimed at Sydney . The most distracting apprehensions were entertained ...
... situation when the Supply arrived in Port Jackson bringing back news of the wreck of the Sirius : Dismay was painted on every countenance , when the tidings were proclaimed at Sydney . The most distracting apprehensions were entertained ...
Page 148
... situations for a colony in every respect , climate favourable to agriculture , and the local Situation equally favourable to commerce , yet deprived of the means of availing myself of these advantages . I need only adduce in proof of ...
... situations for a colony in every respect , climate favourable to agriculture , and the local Situation equally favourable to commerce , yet deprived of the means of availing myself of these advantages . I need only adduce in proof of ...
Page 541
... situation in which you are placed , whatever may have been the motives by which you were stimulated , and I trust that they were none other than those mentioned in the indictment , - that you had not the fear of God before your eyes ...
... situation in which you are placed , whatever may have been the motives by which you were stimulated , and I trust that they were none other than those mentioned in the indictment , - that you had not the fear of God before your eyes ...
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