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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... of creation ; all that is wanted is the seeing eye . Only a few weeks back I was seated in my verandah watching a young kangaroo I have , as it was nibbling at the tender blades on the grass - plot 24 Readings in Melbourne .
... of creation ; all that is wanted is the seeing eye . Only a few weeks back I was seated in my verandah watching a young kangaroo I have , as it was nibbling at the tender blades on the grass - plot 24 Readings in Melbourne .
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... weeks back - I read it in one of our morn- ing papers - a man sold two hundred canaries in a few hours at Sandhurst , at one pound each , and was so delighted at D the buoyancy of the canary market in that auriferous locality LECTURE II ...
... weeks back - I read it in one of our morn- ing papers - a man sold two hundred canaries in a few hours at Sandhurst , at one pound each , and was so delighted at D the buoyancy of the canary market in that auriferous locality LECTURE II ...
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... weeks to be wheeled to the court by his sons in a bath chair . This was before my advent to Melbourne , but quite as strange things took place even many weeks after my arrival . A once fellow - counsel of mine in Sydney , a gentleman ...
... weeks to be wheeled to the court by his sons in a bath chair . This was before my advent to Melbourne , but quite as strange things took place even many weeks after my arrival . A once fellow - counsel of mine in Sydney , a gentleman ...
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... week , is , in many respects , richer than Julius Cæsar in the imperial purple . A man can chip stones , or plane wood , and with his day's wage walk into the next street , and command the industry of the world . For him , as for every ...
... week , is , in many respects , richer than Julius Cæsar in the imperial purple . A man can chip stones , or plane wood , and with his day's wage walk into the next street , and command the industry of the world . For him , as for every ...
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... weekly , quarterly , and monthly , which on the coming in of the English mail are forwarded to all parts of the interior , to convince us that the dwellers there are as retentive of their English tastes and sympathies as are the people ...
... weekly , quarterly , and monthly , which on the coming in of the English mail are forwarded to all parts of the interior , to convince us that the dwellers there are as retentive of their English tastes and sympathies as are the people ...
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