 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 922 pages
...away again?' ' Never, sir.' 'Go to the storekeeper then,' the benevolent Collins would say, 'and jet a suit of slops and your week's ration, and then go...governor. I have, however, been assured that there teas less <nme and much fewer faults committed among the people under Governor Collins than in any... | |
 | Samuel Bennett - Australia - 1865 - 710 pages
...behaviour. " 'Well,' he would say to them, 'now that you have lived in the bush, do you think the change you made was for the better ? Are you sorry for what...proof that mercy and humanity are the best policy." The records of the early days of Tasmanian colonisation resemble in their general features those of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1866 - 260 pages
...Are you sorry for what you have done?" "Yes, sir." " And will you promise never to go away again I" " Never, sir." " Go to the storekeeper, then," the benevolent...proof that mercy and humanity are the best policy.' Miss Martineau, in her works on America, gives several delightful illustrations of this principle,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 276 pages
...made was for the better ? Are you sorry for what you have done?" "Yes, sir." "And will you promise never to go away again ?" " Never, sir." " Go to the...proof -that mercy and humanity are the best policy.' Miss Martineau, in her works on America, gives several delightful illustrations of this principle,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 530 pages
...expect you will keep your promise to me." ' I never heard of any other governor or commandant acting ia this manner, nor did I ever witness much leniency...proof that mercy and humanity are the best policy.' Miss Martineau, in her works on America, gives several delightful illustrations of this principle,... | |
 | Louis Becke, Walter Jeffery - Australia - 1899 - 378 pages
...you my pardon, but remember that I expect you will keep your promise to me.' " I never heard of any governor or commandant acting in this manner, nor did I ever witness such leniency from any governor." Of the marines it has already been said they behaved fairly well.... | |
 | Cyril Field - Great Britain - 1924 - 506 pages
...Memoirs of Lt. -Col. David Collins, RM," in the " Globe and Laurel," of May. 1889' I never heard of any governor or commandant acting in this manner, nor did I ever witness such leniency from any governor." His name lives not only in Collins Street, Hobart, but in Collins... | |
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I never heard of any other governor or commandant acting in this manner, nor did I ever witness much leniency from any governor. I have, however, been assured that there -was less crime and much fewer faults committed among the people under Governor Collins... 