Impressions of Australia Felix, During Four Years Residence in that Colony: Notes of a Voyage Round the World; Australian Poems, &cLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845 - 362 páginas |
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... we , without violating the confidence and courtesies of private life , reveal to the reader , the whole eventful history , the disquietudes , the vexations , the losses and disappoint- ments of a ship's cargo of emigrants : in fact.
... we , without violating the confidence and courtesies of private life , reveal to the reader , the whole eventful history , the disquietudes , the vexations , the losses and disappoint- ments of a ship's cargo of emigrants : in fact.
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... emigrants : in fact , the fortunes of all those who went with us in search of the golden fleece ! Britain has dependencies , children more than twelve thousand miles off , for whom the home - kindness sends out occasional suits of ...
... emigrants : in fact , the fortunes of all those who went with us in search of the golden fleece ! Britain has dependencies , children more than twelve thousand miles off , for whom the home - kindness sends out occasional suits of ...
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... emigrant , and make right off for your ship . We have ourselves endeavoured to do so . * And now the pests of emigration : -the leave - taking , the packing up , the nuisance of custom - house and custom - house officers , and the dry ...
... emigrant , and make right off for your ship . We have ourselves endeavoured to do so . * And now the pests of emigration : -the leave - taking , the packing up , the nuisance of custom - house and custom - house officers , and the dry ...
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... emigrants . We knew it was a lady , for the ship's figure - head , a wooden beauty , profuse of clumsy and square ringlets , was left on our forecastle , as was also a part of her bowsprit . Poor Sophia ! I heard her main and mizen ...
... emigrants . We knew it was a lady , for the ship's figure - head , a wooden beauty , profuse of clumsy and square ringlets , was left on our forecastle , as was also a part of her bowsprit . Poor Sophia ! I heard her main and mizen ...
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... emigrant goes to Aus- tralia without his knowledge or consent . Well , other children do the same ; most of us do so , who are full - grown children . Leaves blown about by the winds are we , yet we persevere in our own wisdom ; deeming ...
... emigrant goes to Aus- tralia without his knowledge or consent . Well , other children do the same ; most of us do so , who are full - grown children . Leaves blown about by the winds are we , yet we persevere in our own wisdom ; deeming ...
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Impressions of Australia Felix, During Four Years Residence in that Colony ... Richard Howitt Visualização integral - 1845 |
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