| Thomas Gill - Australian literature - 1886 - 148 pages
...: A. MacDougall, 1839. Demy 8vo. EXTRACT FROM PREFACE. — The reasons that led me to fix Adelaide where it is, I do not expect to be generally understood...service of fixing the whole of the responsibility upon me. I am perfectly willing to bear it ; and I leave it to posterity, and not to them, to decide... | |
| Albert Frederick Calvert - Australia - 1895 - 310 pages
..." The Barton College, near Adelaide, March 28th, 1839 — " The reasons that led me to fix Adelaide where it is, I do not expect to be generally understood...them, to decide whether I am entitled to praise or blame." This gallant officer, who had fought bravely under the Duke of Wellington, through the Peninsular... | |
| David John Gordon - Northern Territory - 1908 - 434 pages
...published in Adelaide in 1839, Colonel Light wrote : — " The reasons that led rne to fix Adelaide where it is I do not expect to be generally understood...service of fixing the whole of the responsibility upon me. I am perfectly willing to bear it ; and I leave to posterity, and not to them, to decide whether... | |
| David John Gordon - Northern Territory - 1908 - 438 pages
...validity in every particular, have done me the good service of fixing the whole of the responsibility upon me. I am perfectly willing to bear it ; and I leave...them, to decide whether I am entitled to praise or blame." When Colonel Light won the day it seemed as if all his fellow-colonists were bent on justifying... | |
| Thomas Gill - Adelaide (S. Aust.) - 1911 - 262 pages
...erect in King William street close to Victoria square: — "The reasons that led me to fix Adelaide where it is I do not expect to be generally understood...of fixing the whole of the responsibility on me. I nm perfectly willing to bear it; and I leave it to posterity, and not to them, to decide whether I... | |
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