The British Colonization of New Zealand: Being an Account of the Principles, Objects, and Plans of the New Zealand Association, Together with Particulars Concerning the Position, Extent, Soil and Climate, Natural Productions, and Native Inhabitants of New ZealandJohn W. Parker, 1837 - 423 páginas "First section sets out ... his principles of colonisation, New Zealand's peculiar suitability for the experiment, the Association's plans for the Māoris, government and the churches. The second ... probably the result of a literature search by Ward ... information ... on the country, its climate, soil, inhabitants, trade and shipping from numerous publicatons. The Rev. Hawtrey's anonymous and naive plans (Appendix A) for Māori improvement received justifiably rough handling"--Bagnall. |
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... South Wales . The many disasters which befell this colony ( for some people did actually die of hunger ) , and the destruction of the colony taken out to the Swan River , and the second emigration of the people who went out , ap- pear ...
... South Wales . The many disasters which befell this colony ( for some people did actually die of hunger ) , and the destruction of the colony taken out to the Swan River , and the second emigration of the people who went out , ap- pear ...
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... South Wales , where the upset price of waste land sold by auction is only 5s . per acre , where the population does not exceed eighty thousand souls , where Lord Howick's regulations did not take effect till 1832 , and where , before ...
... South Wales , where the upset price of waste land sold by auction is only 5s . per acre , where the population does not exceed eighty thousand souls , where Lord Howick's regulations did not take effect till 1832 , and where , before ...
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... South Wales has so far prospered from the beginning , that no one has ever found it difficult to maintain a family : yet the popula- tion of the colony is nothing like as great as the num- ber of emigrants . But why ? simply because ...
... South Wales has so far prospered from the beginning , that no one has ever found it difficult to maintain a family : yet the popula- tion of the colony is nothing like as great as the num- ber of emigrants . But why ? simply because ...
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... South Wales is rather under than over the usual rate ; whereas , in the supposed ease , the proportion of young people would have been very much greater than it ever has been in any human society ; and according , of course , to this ...
... South Wales is rather under than over the usual rate ; whereas , in the supposed ease , the proportion of young people would have been very much greater than it ever has been in any human society ; and according , of course , to this ...
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... South Wales , who , in the course of a few years , have made that colony to swarm with sheep , did not import lambs or old sheep ; still less did they import a large proportion of rams . They have imported altogether a very small number ...
... South Wales , who , in the course of a few years , have made that colony to swarm with sheep , did not import lambs or old sheep ; still less did they import a large proportion of rams . They have imported altogether a very small number ...
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Aborigines amongst appears Augustus Earle Australia barrels Bay of Islands birds British colonization British settlements British subjects canoes Captain Cook casks character chief Christian Church Missionary civilization Cloudy Bay coast colonists colony convicts Cook's Straits crews crown cultivation distance emigration England English established Europeans extensive favour feet flax harbour head Hokianga hundred inhabitants intercourse labour laws Lord Lord Goderich Marsden means ment miles months natives natural North Island northern object obtained persons plant population Port possession potatoes present principle produce public land purchase purchase-money purpose quantity race remarkable resident revenue river Samuel Hinds savage says settle settlers ships shore side slaves society soil South Australia South Wales southern Sydney Herald territory timber tion tons trade tree tribes Tupai Van Diemen's Land vegetation vessels visited Waikato waste land whaling whole wood Yate young Zealand Zealand flax
Pasajes populares
Página 298 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep, And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light ; and there was light.
Página 417 - Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 299 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Página 410 - To these were added religion, which mingled itself with every passion and institution during the Middle Ages, and, by infusing a large proportion of enthusiastic zeal, gave them such force as carried them to romantic excess. Men were trained to knighthood by a long previous discipline ; they were admitted into the order by solemnities no less devout than pompous.
Página 401 - Direct it flies and rapid, Shattering that it may reach, and shattering what it reaches. My son I the road, the human being travels, That, on which BLESSING comes and goes doth follow The river's course, the valley's playful windings, Curves round the corn-field and the hill of vines, Honouring the holy bounds of property! And thus secure, though late, leads to its end.
Página 33 - Seas, for the murders, the misery, the contamination which we have brought upon them. Our runaway convicts are the pests of savage as well as of civilized society ; so are our runaway sailors ; and the crews of our whaling vessels, and of the traders from New South Wales, too frequently act in the most reckless and immoral manner when at a distance from the restraints of justice : in proof of this we need only refer to the evidence of the missionaries.
Página 410 - When the final reduction of the Holy Land, under the dominion of infidels, put an end to these foreign expeditions, the latter was the only employment left for the activity and courage of adventurers. To check the insolence of overgrown oppressors ; to rescue the helpless from captivity ; to protect or to avenge women, orphans, and...
Página 410 - War was carried on with less ferocity when humanity came to be deemed the ornament of knighthood no less than courage. More gentle and polished manners were introduced when courtesy was recommended as the most amiable of knightly virtues. Violence and oppression decreased when it was reckoned meritorious to check and to punish them.