A Popular Handbook to New Zealand: Its Resources and IndustriesWyman & Sons, 1886 - 243 pàgines 2nd ed. i.e. 1st ed. reprinted with a new preface. |
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A Popular Handbook to New Zealand, Its Resources and Industries: With an ... Arthur Clayden Visualització completa - 1885 |
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Pàgina 185 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Pàgina 41 - the Taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them...
Pàgina 7 - Report of the Works of Sewerage and DRAINAGE PROPOSED FOR THE TOWN OF CANNES, FRANCE. By DOUGLAS GALTON, CB, DCL, &c., late Captain Royal Engineers. Just ready.
Pàgina 25 - Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread ? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Pàgina 4 - John Bull's Neighbour in Her True Light. Being an Answer to some recent French Criticisms. By a "BRUTAL SAXON.
Pàgina 41 - They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows; "Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot...
Pàgina 96 - Act referred to as the property of the bankrupt, shall not comprise the following particulars : (1.) Property held by the bankrupt on trust for any other person : (2.) The tools (if any) of his trade and the necessary wearing apparel and bedding of himself, his wife and children, to a value, inclusive of tools and apparel and bedding, not exceeding twenty pounds in the whole...
Pàgina 12 - And give the lips we love unborrowed bread ; To see a world, from shadowy forests won, In youthful beauty wedded to the sun ; To skirt our home with harvests widely sown, And call the blooming landscape all our own, Our children's heritage, in prospect long.
Pàgina 8 - Stereotyping and Electrotyping. A Guide for the Production of Plates by the Papier Mache and Plaster Processes. With Instructions for Depositing Copper by the Battery or by the Dynamo Machine. Also Hints on Steel and Brass Facing, &c. By FRED. J. WILSON, author of " PrintingMachines and Machine-Printing.
Pàgina 154 - The fiber, thus freed from the leaf of the plant, is washed by various methods, put on the ground or on lines to dry and bleach, finished by an arm or barrel scutch, and, when boiled, is ready for market.