The Southlanders: An Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New HollandLady Mary Fox |
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Page 216 - The sun, when you to face him turn ye, From right to left performs his journey. The north winds scorch, but when the breeze is Full from the south, why then it freezes. Now of what place can such strange tales Be told with truth but New South Wales...
Page 215 - There beasts have mallards' bills and legs. Have spurs like cocks, like hens lay eggs. There parrots walk upon the ground, And grass upon the trees is found ; On other trees — another wonder — Leaves without upper side or under. There pears you'll scarce with hatchet cut ; Stones are outside the cherries put ; Swans are not white, but black as soot ; There neither leaf, nor root, nor fruit, Will any Christian palate suit ; Unless in desperate need you'll fill ye With root of fern and stalk of...
Page 117 - ... great share in bringing about its own fulfilment. Accordingly, when a law is actually passed, and there is no reasonable hope of its repeal, we should be very cautious in publicly uttering predictions of dangers and discontents, lest we should thus become the means of engendering or aggravating them. He who gives out, for instance, that the people will certainly be dissatisfied with such and such a law is in this doing his utmost to make them dissatisfied. And this being the case in all unfavourable,...
Page 91 - ... which is to make the earth, in fact, the possession not of the living, but of the dead ; and, secondly, that even supposing our ancestors gifted with such infallibility, many cases must arise in which it may be reasonably doubted whether they themselves would not have advocated, if living, changes called for by altered circumstances.
Page 215 - There is a land in distant seas Full of all contrarieties, There beasts have mallards' bills and legs, Have spurs like cocks, like hens lay eggs. There parrots walk upon the ground, And grass upon the trees is found; On other trees — another wonder — Leaves without upper side or under. There pears you'll scarce with hatchet cut; Stones are outside the cherries put; Swans are not white, but black as soot; There neither leaf, nor root...
Page 140 - Now it is to our prayers, not to our wants, that his gifts are promised. He does not say ' Need, and ye shall have ; want, and ye shall find; but ' Ask, and ye shall have ; seek, and ye shall find.
Page 215 - There quadrupeds go on two feet, And yet few quadrupeds so fleet. , There, birds, although they cannot fly, In swiftness with the greyhound vie. With equal wonder you may see The foxes fly from tree to tree ; And what they value most, so wary, These foxes in their pockets carry.
Page 216 - There courting swains their passion prove By knocking down the girls they love. There every servant gets his place By character of foul disgrace. There vice is virtue, virtue vice, And all that's vile is voted nice. The sun, when you to face him turn ye, From right to left performs his journey. The North winds scorch ; but when the breeze is Full from the South, why then it freezes.