New Holland, Its Colonization, Productions & Resources: With Observations on the Relations Subsisting with Great BritainLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - 312 頁 |
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第 i 頁 - tis a base Abandonment of reason to resign Our right of thought — our last and only place Of refuge...
第 38 頁 - In short, America is the land of labour, and by no means what the English call Lubberland, and the French Pays de Cocagne, where the streets are said to be paved with half-peck loaves, the houses tiled with pancakes, and where the fowls fly about ready roasted, crying, Come eat me!
第 83 頁 - ... is formed, for the trees and shrubs being very inflammable, conflagrations take place so frequently and extensively in the woods, during summer, as to leave very little vegetable matter to return to earth. On the highest mountains, and in places the most remote and desolate, I have always found on every dead trunk on the ground, and living tree of any magnitude also, the marks of fire; and thus it appeared that these annual fires extend to every place.
第 51 頁 - I saw the poor child's funeral from a distance. Ah, that Distance ! What a magician for conjuring up scenes of joy or sorrow, smoothing all asperities, reconciling all incongruities, veiling all absurdities, softening every coarseness, doubling every effect by the influence of the imagination.
第 273 頁 - A thousand years scarce serve to form a state ; An hour may lay it in the dust : and when Can man its shatter'd splendour renovate, Recall its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate?
第 81 頁 - ... minor vegetation ceased upon it. Culinary herbs were raised with difficulty, and crops failed even in the most favourable situations. Settlers drove their flocks and herds to distant tracts for pasture and water, neither remaining for them in the located districts.
第 128 頁 - The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass and corn of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either.
第 247 頁 - The increase is so peculiarly marked in the districts in which the expenditure took place, as to decide the question of its being attributable to that alone ; and I have no doubt I am borne out in the opinion that, in any given seven years, the annual increase...
第 245 頁 - Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land! What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree! What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand!
第 82 頁 - Sandstone, however, predominates so much more than all these as to cover about six-seventh's of the whole surface comprised within the boundaries of nineteen counties. Wherever this happens to be the surface rock, little besides barren sand is found in the place of soil. Deciduous vegetation scarcely exists there ; no turf is...