 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1844 - 1020 pages
...prevent, even were it disposed to do so. "As well might it be attempted (he continues in another place) to confine the Arabs of the Desert within a circle...within any bounds that can possibly be assigned to them ; and as certainly as the Arabs would be starved, so also would the flocks and herds of New South Wales,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Braim - New South Wales - 1846 - 342 pages
...the people, is only incapable of mischief, because it is utterly impossible to reduce it to practice. As well might it be attempted to confine the Arabs...within any bounds that can possibly be assigned to them ; and as certainly as the Arabs would be starved, so also would the flocks and herds of New South Wales,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Braim - New South Wales - 1846 - 334 pages
...the people, is only incapable of mischief, because it is utterly impossible to reduce it to practice. As well might it be attempted to confine the Arabs...within any bounds that can possibly be assigned to them ; and as certainly as the Arabs would be starved, so also would the flocks and herds of New South Wales,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Braim - New South Wales - 1846 - 350 pages
...people, is only incapable of misrhiff, because it is utterly impossible to red IKK; it to practice. As well might it be attempted to confine the Arabs...circle traced upon their sands, as to confine the grazer* or wool-growers of New South Wales withiu «/v bounds that can possibly be assigned to tktetu... | |
 | S.W. Silver & Co - Australia - 1880 - 522 pages
...moderate sum, and so secure protection. Sir George Gipps, in 1840, saw the difficulty, and wrote, ' As well might it be attempted to confine the Arabs...traced upon their sands, as to confine the graziers or wool growers of New South "Wales within any bounds that can possibly be assigned to them.' Collisions... | |
 | Charles James Rowe - Great Britain - 1883 - 486 pages
...the people is only incapable of mischief because it is utterly impossible to reduce it. to practice. As well might it be attempted to confine the Arabs...any bounds that can possibly be assigned- to them ; and as certainly as the Arabs would be starved, so also would the flocks and herds of New South Wales... | |
 | Australia - 1888 - 966 pages
...to restrain the dispersion of the inhabitants. Yet Sir George Gipps told the Secretary of State— " As well might it be attempted to confine the Arabs...traced upon their sands, as to confine the graziers or wool growers of New South Wales within any bounds than can possibly be assigned to them." Instead of... | |
 | Richard Charles Mills - Australia - 1915 - 402 pages
...primarily a pastoral country, dispersion could not be prevented, and was indeed to be encouraged. " As well might it be attempted to confine the Arabs...the desert within a circle traced upon their sands," he wrote in 1 840, " as to confine the graziers or wool-growers of New South Wales within any bounds... | |
 | Australia. Parliament. Joint Library Committee - Australia - 1924 - 874 pages
...to practice. As well might it k- attempted to confine the Arabs of the Desert within a circle, traml upon their sands, as to confine the Graziers or Woolgrowers...any bounds that can possibly be assigned to them: and as certainly as the Arabs would be starved. so also would the flocks and herds of New South Wales,... | |
 | Stephen Henry Roberts - Agricultural colonies - 1924 - 528 pages
...his policy was the idea that the squatters not only had to be tolerated but were a positive benefit. "As well might it be attempted to confine the Arabs of the desert within a circle drawn on the sands, as to confine the graziers or wool-growers of New South Wales within any bounds... | |
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As well might it be attempted to confine the Arabs of the Desert within a circle, traced upon their sands, as to confine the Graziers or Woolgrowers of New South Wales within any bounds that can possibly be assigned to them... 
