An Account of a Voyage to Establish a Colony at Port Philip in Bass's Strait: On the South Coast of New South Wales in His Majesty's Ship Calcutta, in the Years 1802-3-4Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and J.C. Mottley, Portsmouth, 1805 - Aboriginal Australians - 239 pages |
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... persons were held free from scrutiny , smuggled on shore great quantities of these goods ; and in consequence , nei- ther are now permitted to go on board any vessel , without express leave from the Governor . The importation of to ...
... persons were held free from scrutiny , smuggled on shore great quantities of these goods ; and in consequence , nei- ther are now permitted to go on board any vessel , without express leave from the Governor . The importation of to ...
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... person residing here must conform to the ex- ternal ceremonies of the established church a heretic is still denied the boon of a consecrated grave , and his hapless ghost must be contented with a mansion in the unpurified bosom of his ...
... person residing here must conform to the ex- ternal ceremonies of the established church a heretic is still denied the boon of a consecrated grave , and his hapless ghost must be contented with a mansion in the unpurified bosom of his ...
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... fur- nished with shutters of close lattice- work , behind which the women as semble in the evening ; and while their own persons are concealed , enjoy the passing passing breeze , which is not , however , always ( 46 )
... fur- nished with shutters of close lattice- work , behind which the women as semble in the evening ; and while their own persons are concealed , enjoy the passing passing breeze , which is not , however , always ( 46 )
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... persons . An unfortunate foreigner of this persua sion , who by sickness , or other causes , is obliged to remain here after his ship sails , is continually plagued by the im- pertinent intrusion of a dozen of these pious fathers , who ...
... persons . An unfortunate foreigner of this persua sion , who by sickness , or other causes , is obliged to remain here after his ship sails , is continually plagued by the im- pertinent intrusion of a dozen of these pious fathers , who ...
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... persons , is open on Thursdays , Sundays , and most holidays : the pieces performed are , in- * In passing the prison , strangers are disgusted with the sight of half - starved and naked prisoners , with iron chains extending from their ...
... persons , is open on Thursdays , Sundays , and most holidays : the pieces performed are , in- * In passing the prison , strangers are disgusted with the sight of half - starved and naked prisoners , with iron chains extending from their ...
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Page 50 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 120 - Poor child of danger, nursling of the storm, Sad are the woes that wreck thy manly form! Rocks, waves, and winds, the shattered bark delay; Thy heart is sad, thy home is far away.
Page 120 - Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles, On Behring's rocks, or Greenland's naked isles : Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow, From wastes that slumber in eternal snow ; And waft, across the waves' tumultuous roar, The wolf's long howl from Oonalaska's shore.
Page 78 - Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting, own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Page 190 - I beheld a second Rome, rising from a coalition of banditti. I beheld it giving laws to the world, and superlative in arms and in. arts, looking down with proud superiority upon the barbarous nations of the northern hemisphere ; thus running over the airy visions of empire, wealth, and glory, I wandered amidst the delusions of imagination.
Page 79 - Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge The glowworm lights his gem ; and through the dark A moving radiance twinkles.
Page 40 - The Thunder holds his black tremendous throne ; From cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage ; Till, in the furious elemental war Dissolved, the whole precipitated mass Unbroken floods and solid torrents pours.
Page 119 - Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurled, Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world.
Page 119 - Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world ! Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles. On Behring's rocks, or Greenland's naked isles : Cold on...
Page 186 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.