The Settler's New Home : Or, Whether to Go, and Whither? Being a Guide to Emigrants in the Selection of a Settlement, and the Preliminary Details of the Voyage. Embracing the Whole Fields of Emigration, and the Most Recent Information Relating Thereto. In Two PartsJ. Kendrick, 1850 |
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The Settler's New Home : Or, Whether to Go, and Whither? Being a Guide to ... Sid Smith Visualització completa - 1850 |
The Settler's New Home : Or, Whether to Go, and Whither? Being a Guide to ... Sid Smith Visualització completa - 1850 |
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Pàgina 1 - Even if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him, so Voltaire said — 'si dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait 1'inventer.
Pàgina 13 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
Pàgina 14 - Existence is slowly rising, in many-coloured splendour and gloom: and the auroral light of first love is gilding his horizon, and the music of song is on his path; and so he walks ' in glory and in joy, Behind his plough, upon the mountain side!
Pàgina 151 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Pàgina 20 - I would sit cross-legged, enjoying the genial warmth, and, pipe in mouth, watch the blue smoke as it curled upwards, building castles in its vapoury wreaths, and, in the fantastic shapes it assumed, peopling the solitude with figures of those far away.
Pàgina 12 - Consider the lilies, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin; yet I say unto you, Even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Pàgina 22 - No more — no more — Oh! never more on me The freshness of the heart can fall like dew, Which out of all the lovely things we see Extracts emotions beautiful and new, Hived in our bosoms like the bag o
Pàgina 57 - ... winters of the north; surrounded by the most magnificent lakes, and possessing the most extensive internal navigation in the known world, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to find in any other region of the globe a tract of country of the same magnitude with so many natural...
Pàgina 87 - Not unfrequently even those brackish pools and fountains also fail, as was the case at the time of our journey ; and then the Karroo becomes almost impassable by man, and a large portion of it uninhabitable even by the wild beasts. In such a region, where rain is rare, and dews almost unknown, the vegetation must of necessity be at all times extremely scanty; and in summer, when the sun has dried the soil to the hardness of brick, it ceases almost entirely. Except along the courses of the temporary...
Pàgina 56 - No doubt remains with the experienced men here, of the capabilities of this colony for grain. With regard to cattle and sheep, no country can be better ; we scarcely hear of a disorder in cattle.