New South Wales; Its Present State and Future Prospects: Being a Statement, with Documentary EvidenceAnnotated with notes by Archdeacon J. H. Scott. |
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Page 277 - ... tis the grand enemy of truth and peace, and all the ordinances of God are bent against it. But there is a civil, a moral, a federal liberty which is the proper end and object of authority; it is a liberty for that only which is just and good: for this liberty you are to stand with the hazard of your very lives, and whatsoever crosses it, is not authority but a distemper thereof.
Page 45 - ... in the colony. He had before him a return, from which it appeared that the number of convicts at this time employed upon the roads is...
Page 45 - ... by day, the other by night ; the one goes forth to industry, the other to plunder. To the carelessness or worse conduct of the overseers, he did attribute a vast proportion of the burglaries and robberies that were committed in the country districts.
Page 236 - And every city, town, or district, containing five hundred families, or householders, shall be provided with such teacher or teachers for such term of time as shall be equivalent to twenty-four...
Page 63 - The entire man is, so to speak, to be seen in the cradle of the child. The growth of nations presents something analogous to this: they all bear some marks of their origin; and the circumstances which accompanied their birth and contributed to their rise affect the whole term of their being.
Page 248 - I may without fear of contradiction assert that in no part of the world is the general education of the People a more sacred and necessary duty of the Government than in New South Wales.
Page 245 - Country . . . those schools ... in which Christians of all Creeds are received, where approved Extracts from Scripture are read, but no religious instruction is given by the Master or Mistress, such being imparted on one day in the week by the Ministers of the different religions, attending at the School to instruct their respective flocks. I am certain that the Colonists...
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Page 176 - ... ewes of which his flocks were composed, with Spanish rams. The lambs produced from this cross were much improved ; but when they were again crossed, the change far exceeded his most sanguine expectations. In four crosses, he is of opinion, no distinction will be perceptible between the pure and the mixed breed. As a proof of the extraordinary and rapid improvement of his flocks, Captain...
Page 143 - ... itself. If there be any justice in this argument, it derives force from the circumstance that this colony is made the receptacle for the outcasts of the United Kingdom, and is, consequently, loaded with a vast disproportion of immoral people. That the colonists have derived many advantages from the transportation of convicts, cannot be denied ; but the system has brought with it a long train of moral evils, which can only be counteracted by an extensive introduction of free and virtuous inhabitants...