Readings in Melbourne: With an Essay on the Resources and Prospects of Victoria, for the Emigrant and Uneasy ClassesLow, 1879 - 329 sivua This book addresses on English life in the city of Melbourne. They cover a period commencing with the earlier gold discoveries, and they close with the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to the colony, in the year 1868. |
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... portion of my audience the justice to say of them , that I was not only not thrown out of window - the fate predicted for me by some of my friends , -but barring an occasional hiss , or an explosive " No , " I was listened to with ...
... portion of my audience the justice to say of them , that I was not only not thrown out of window - the fate predicted for me by some of my friends , -but barring an occasional hiss , or an explosive " No , " I was listened to with ...
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... portion of my audience bet- ter pleased with their condition - if I can stimulate thought , correct error , excite to inquiry , encourage charity in con- duct or liberality in feeling , I shall have achieved my utmost hopes on this ...
... portion of my audience bet- ter pleased with their condition - if I can stimulate thought , correct error , excite to inquiry , encourage charity in con- duct or liberality in feeling , I shall have achieved my utmost hopes on this ...
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... portions of his educa- tion ; and the liabilities and vicissitudes of colonization vindicate the wisdom of such a rule . Soon we come to observe one very distinct consequence of our thus being all workers . There is certainly more ...
... portions of his educa- tion ; and the liabilities and vicissitudes of colonization vindicate the wisdom of such a rule . Soon we come to observe one very distinct consequence of our thus being all workers . There is certainly more ...
Sivu 11
... Portions of a common empire , speaking the same language , reading their literature , in habits and modes of thinking the same , how are we other than portions of that same British Empire , save in those intervals of sea which lie ...
... Portions of a common empire , speaking the same language , reading their literature , in habits and modes of thinking the same , how are we other than portions of that same British Empire , save in those intervals of sea which lie ...
Sivu 14
... of the greatest efforts of statesmanship to keep that large portion of the Anglo - Saxon race which still remains under the sway of our Sovereign united to us " in the closest bonds . I was honoured some time 14 . Readings in Melbourne .
... of the greatest efforts of statesmanship to keep that large portion of the Anglo - Saxon race which still remains under the sway of our Sovereign united to us " in the closest bonds . I was honoured some time 14 . Readings in Melbourne .
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