The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century: Its Progress and Expansion at Home and Abroad, Comprising a Description and History of the British Colonies and Dependencies, 第 6 卷

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第 73 頁 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
第 35 頁 - ... when their owners allow them no other day for working ; because he, a Minister of the Gospel, preaches a duty prescribed by the laws of religion and by the laws of the land, while the planters live in the contempt of it. In short, no man can cast his eye upon this trial, without perceiving that it was intended to bring on an issue between the System of the Slave-law and the Instruction of the Negroes. The exemplar which these misguided men seem to have set before them is that of their French...
第 154 頁 - One thousand nine hundred and one, the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia shall be united in a Federal Commonwealth under the name of the Commonwealth of Australia.
第 76 頁 - He established religious equality on a just and firm basis, and sought to provide for all, without distinction of sect, a sound and adequate system of national education.
第 90 頁 - ... certain parts of the islands of New Zealand should be added to the Colony of New South Wales as a dependency of that Government, and that Captain Hobson, RN, should proceed thither as British Consul to fill the office of Lieutenant Governor.
第 36 頁 - ... ([upon the principle, I suppose, that, like inoculation, it is safer to repeat it). In the same spirit the Demerara public meeting of the 24th of February, 1824, resolved forthwith to petition the Court of Policy " to expel all missionaries from the colony, and to pass a law prohibiting their admission for the future.
第 167 頁 - The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century : its Progress and Expansion at Home and Abroad, comprising a description and history of the British Colonies and Dependencies.
第 35 頁 - He declared his conviction, that 'nothing but those religious impressions which, under Providence, Mr Smith has been instrumental in fixing — nothing but those principles of the gospel of peace which he has been proclaiming — could have prevented a dreadful effusion of blood here, and saved the lives of those very persons who are now, I shudder to write it, seeking his.
第 37 頁 - It is divided9 into three parts, the most westerly of which belongs to Great Britain, the central to Holland, and the eastern to France, which are hence called British, Dutch, and French Guiana. All the three divisions of Guiana are washed by...
第 37 頁 - ... feeling of independence both of thinking and acting, and by frequent meetings of this kind a spirit of remark is generated ; neither of which are sensations at all proper to be excited in the minds of Slaves." Again, in 1823, says the government paper; "To address a promiscuous audience of Black or Coloured people, bond and free, by the endearing appellation of

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