A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Volumen6,Partes1-2

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Clarendon Press, 1907
 

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Página 265 - Commons, to make laws, for the peace, order and good government of Canada, in relation to all matters not coming within the classes of subjects assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces.
Página 50 - As I would not wish convicts to lay the foundations of an empire, I think they should ever remain separated from the garrison, and other settlers that may come from Europe, and not be allowed to mix with them, even after the 7 or 14 years for which they are transported may be expired.
Página 71 - Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, This speck of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! — Would sully the bright spot or leave it bare, When he might build him a proud temple there, A name that long shall hallow all its space, And be each purer soul's high...
Página 69 - I have heard of your concerns, sir; you have got 5,000 acres of land in the finest situation in the country ; but, by God, you shan't keep it...
Página 22 - You are also, with the consent of the natives, to take possession in the name of the King of Great Britain, of convenient situations in such countries as you may discover, that have not already been discovered or visited by any other European power...
Página 148 - Men meet together, stare stupidly at each other, talk incoherent nonsense, and wonder what will happen next. Everybody has a hundred times seen a hundredweight of flour ; a hundredweight of sugar or potatoes is an every-day fact ; but a hundredweight of gold is a phrase scarcely known in the English language. It is beyond the range of our ordinary ideas — a sort of physical incomprehensibility ; but that...
Página 152 - League' to place the power in the hands of responsible representatives of the people to frame wholesome laws and carry on an honest Government. That it is not the wish of the 'League' to effect an immediate separation of this Colony from the parent country, if equal laws and equal rights are dealt out to the whole free community. But that if Queen Victoria continues to act upon the ill advice of dishonest ministers and insists upon indirectly dictating obnoxious laws for the Colony under the assumed...
Página 9 - set up at the top of the highest mountain a very large cross as a sign that this country belonged to the king of Spain .. . and gave to the mountain the name of the Mount of Christ'; made rude chiefs mumble Aves, Paternosters, and Credos, like parrots, and do homage and swear fealty to the king of Spain...
Página 1 - Factories' (T = )Tourists' centre. be richest and the north poorest in both combined ; and the structure, shape, and direction of the great range contain the key which unlocks every geographical secret of Middle Island.
Página 77 - The dread of transportation had almost entirely subsided, and had been succeeded by a desire to emigrate to New South Wales.

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