Phillipsland; Or, The Country Hitherto Designated Port Phillip: Its Present Condition and Prospects, as a Highly Eligible Field for Emigration

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T. Constable, 1847 - 447 من الصفحات
General reference to Aborigines and their customs; visit to Methodist mission at Buntingdale; quotes report by G.A. Robinson of murder of Aborigines in the Western District.

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الصفحة 400 - The world was sad ! — the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sigh'd — till woman smiled...
الصفحة 269 - No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you ! But I have understanding as well as you ; I am not inferior to you : Yea, who knoweth not such things as these...
الصفحة 252 - But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law: that he might redeem them who were under the law; that we might receive the adoption of sons.
الصفحة 285 - Come, bright Improvement! on the car of Time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore. On Erie's banks, where tigers steal along, And the dread Indian chants a dismal song, Where human fiends on midnight errands walk. And bathe in brains the murderous tomahawk...
الصفحة 31 - Great Britain, on her part, surrendered to France all her pretensions to the country west of the Mississippi. It has never been supposed, that she surrendered nothing, although she was not in actual possession of a foot of land. She surrendered all right to acquire the country ; and any after attempt to...
الصفحة 251 - He cannot doubt for a moment, but the least of these deserves the damnation of hell; " the worm that dieth not, and the fire that never shall be quenched.
الصفحة 93 - Year then next ensuing, and for apportioning an equal Sum among the several Districts of the said Colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor to issue Warrants under his Hand, directed to the Treasurers of the several District Councils, requiring them within Two Calendar Months from the Receipt of the Warrant to pay an Amount equal to the Sum assessed upon that District to such Person as the Governor shall appoint to receive the same, out of any Monies in their Hands belonging to the District.
الصفحة 34 - We had at length discovered a country ready for the immediate reception of civilized man, and fit to become eventually one of the great nations of the earth...
الصفحة 242 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

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