An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales: Both as a Penal Settlement and as a British Colony, Volume 2A.J. Valpy, 1837 - New South Wales |
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Page 431 - THE LITERARY PROFESSION, OR, THE COLONIAL PRESS. ' When bad men combine, the good must associate ; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.'—BURKE.
Page 497 - intention to move for the appointment of a Select Committee of the House of Commons, to ascertain the circumstances and condition of the aboriginal inhabitants of all the colonies of the empire. Mr. Buxton had also requested him to remain in England, to be examined by the Committee on the subject of the Aborigines of this colony , and when the appointment of that Committee
Page 242 - garments, and olive-yards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and maid-servants? The leprosy, therefore, of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever.
Page 164 - Be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land. When ye go, ye shall come unto—a large land—a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth."—JUDGES xviii. 9,
Page 527 - God. He would say in the words of the Catholic poet Dryden, " For modes of faith let zealous bigots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." The defendant has told you in
Page 503 - may use the language of the Apostle, and say, ' I bear them record, that, if it had been possible, they would have plucked out their own eyes and given them to
Page 281 - perennius, Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edai, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere, aut innumerabilis Annorum series, et fuga temporum.
Page 89 - Plains, And Goulburn River, and the Goulburn Range, And Mount Goulburn, and Goulburn Vale. One's brains Are turned with Goulburns ! Pitiful—this mange For immortality ! Had I the reins Of government a fortnight, I would change These common-place appellatives, and give The country names that should deserve to live.
Page 479 - of their churches left to themselves, I conceive that the public treasury might in time be relieved of a considerable charge; and, what is of much greater importance, the people would become more attached to their respective churches, and be more willing to listen to and obey the voice of their several pastors.
Page 143 - western interior, from whence they are again conjured up to the higher regions of the atmosphere by the process of evaporation. * " La plupart de ces isles ne sont en effet que des pointes de montagnes : et la mer, qui est