 | Flowers - 1829 - 340 sivua
...of justice, it seems a cold formality ; and a man is sentenced to be hanged with the same sang froid as if he were only to pay a fine. In Scotland the...passable ; but a Scottish is invariably a villain. ECCENTRICITY. — Sir John Price was extremely eccentric ; he married three wives, and kept the two... | |
 | Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - 1832 - 500 sivua
...to the passions. The first are clear; the second suhtle ; and the third vehement. A man is hanished from Scotland for a great crime ; from England for...small one, and from Ireland, morally speaking, for hardly a crime at all. Hence, in New South Wales an Irish-convict may he a good man ; an English, passahle... | |
 | Alexander Marjoribanks - 1847 - 284 sivua
...the guilty crowd, and do as they do." It has been remarked by a writer in the European Review, " that a man is banished from Scotland for a great crime,...convict may be a good man, an English passable, but a Scotch one, almost invariably a villain." On reaching Port Jackson, the convicts were marched, under... | |
 | Stephen Nicholas - 1988 - 268 sivua
...analysis thus lends support to the famous statement of the contemporary Alexander Marjoribanks that 'a man is banished from Scotland for a great crime,...and from Ireland, morally speaking, for no crime at all'.9 Age and dependents Current levels of Australian immigration have been justified, in part, to... | |
 | Deborah Oxley - 1996 - 358 sivua
...Scottish tourist to New South Wales — also communicated this more sympathetic perspective. He wrote, 'a man is banished from Scotland for a great crime,...and from Ireland, morally speaking, for no crime at all'.12 This was unusually generous towards the English in terms of the current debate. Twentieth-century... | |
 | James Jupp - 2001 - 1014 sivua
...lends support to the statement of Alexander Marjorihanks in Travels in New South W.zles (1847) that ‘a man is banished from Scotland for a great crime,...from Ireland, morally speaking, for no crime at all'. ‘¿Vithin each country there were also significant variations in the likelihood of being transported.... | |
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The first are clear ; the second subtle; and the third vehement. A man is banished from Scotland for a great crime ; from England for a small one ; and from Ireland, morally speaking, for no crime at all. 