Sidney's Emigrants Journal..., 1. kötet,1-39. kiadásW. S. Orr and Company |
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1. oldal
... land is cheap and labour dear - has become a deservedly popular idea . To leave one's native country , friends and all those ties that render home so dear to the poorest and the humblest , is under all circumstances a severe sacrifice ...
... land is cheap and labour dear - has become a deservedly popular idea . To leave one's native country , friends and all those ties that render home so dear to the poorest and the humblest , is under all circumstances a severe sacrifice ...
2. oldal
... land , under an absurd Act of Parliament , either entirely excludes the small capitalist from the possession of land , or swal- lows up his capital in such a manner as to keep him constantly on the brink of ruin . In Canada , if the ...
... land , under an absurd Act of Parliament , either entirely excludes the small capitalist from the possession of land , or swal- lows up his capital in such a manner as to keep him constantly on the brink of ruin . In Canada , if the ...
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... land , by sundry purchases , amounts to 360 acres , of excellent quality , more than half of which is cultivated . We have two small farms let off at a rent of a dollar an acre . Where on our coming was a wilderness , small villages ...
... land , by sundry purchases , amounts to 360 acres , of excellent quality , more than half of which is cultivated . We have two small farms let off at a rent of a dollar an acre . Where on our coming was a wilderness , small villages ...
5. oldal
... land monopoly , as impolitic as unjust . For this reform we have struggled for nearly two years single Father and I and Tom then set to work after ploughing of an evening handed . It is the question , on which the fate of Australian ...
... land monopoly , as impolitic as unjust . For this reform we have struggled for nearly two years single Father and I and Tom then set to work after ploughing of an evening handed . It is the question , on which the fate of Australian ...
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... land companies with land to sell , or wealthy established colonists , anxious to have such a number of servants imported at once as would enable them to lower the rate of wages . To the self - interest of these two parties , the cause ...
... land companies with land to sell , or wealthy established colonists , anxious to have such a number of servants imported at once as would enable them to lower the rate of wages . To the self - interest of these two parties , the cause ...
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acres Adelaide afford agricultural Amen Corner America answer arrived Australian Agricultural Company Australian colonies better bullocks bush bushel Bushman cabin Canada Canada West Cape capital capitalists cattle cent cheap climate cloth colonists comfort Commissioners Company cost cultivation despatched district dollars EMIGRANT'S England expense farm farmer feet free passage gentlemen Government Guineas horses intending emigrant Journal labour land Lieut live London miles months obtain Old Bailey Otago outfit parties passengers persons plenty plough Plymouth population Port Philip pounds purchase rienced river Royal Exchange sail servants settled settlement settlers sheep shepherds ship Society soil South Australia South Wales squatters steerage Sydney timber tion tons town trade trees United vessels voyage wages week wheat wife WILLIAM MILLIKEN WILLIAM SOMERVILLE young Zealand
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159. oldal - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
168. oldal - Modern Cookery in all its Branches, reduced to a System of Easy Practice. For the use of Private Families. In a Series of Receipts, all of which have been strictly tested, and are given with the most minute exactness. By ELIZA ACTON. New Edition : with Directions for Carving, and other Additions.
18. oldal - This is rendered probable by the fact that the bark of the loot frequently contains substances which are not to be met with in any other part of the plant.
159. oldal - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
58. oldal - America, and shall leave such port or place with the same, and bring the same, or any number thereof, within the jurisdiction of the United States...
58. oldal - States, or transfer or place under foreign registry or flag, any vessel or any interest therein owned in whole or in part by a citizen of the United States...
159. oldal - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
58. oldal - ... every such master shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof before any circuit or district Court of the United States aforesaid, shall, for each passenger taken on board beyond the above proportions, be fined in the sum of fifty dollars, and...
119. oldal - I have no hesitation now in saying that there is more gold in the country drained by the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers than will pay the cost of the present war with Mexico a hundred times over.
126. oldal - If any person shall knowingly and wilfully, with intent to defraud the revenue of the United States, smuggle or clandestinely introduce into the United States any goods, wares, or merchandise subject to duty by law, and which should have been invoiced, without paying or accounting for the duty, or shall make out or pass, or attempt to pass, through the custom house, any false, forged, or fraudulent invoice...