Australia and HomewardW. Briggs, 1888 - 336 páginas |
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... MELBOURNE COFFEE PALACES 130 BURKE AND WILLS , THE EXPLORERS . 145 PERILS OF PIONEERING . 151 FIRST LETTER . AUSTRALIA AND HOMEWARD . Celebrating a Local Option Victory in Melbourne -Farewell Address Lecture at Hamilton - Visit Ararat ...
... MELBOURNE COFFEE PALACES 130 BURKE AND WILLS , THE EXPLORERS . 145 PERILS OF PIONEERING . 151 FIRST LETTER . AUSTRALIA AND HOMEWARD . Celebrating a Local Option Victory in Melbourne -Farewell Address Lecture at Hamilton - Visit Ararat ...
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... Melbourne is the Yarra - Yarra - flowing , flowing ; that is , ever flowing . Other streams may go dry , but this , never . I found , in travelling largely through the country , many places named according to this rule : Bet - Bet ...
... Melbourne is the Yarra - Yarra - flowing , flowing ; that is , ever flowing . Other streams may go dry , but this , never . I found , in travelling largely through the country , many places named according to this rule : Bet - Bet ...
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... . young in We saw in the Zoological Gardens at Melbourne a white female kangaroo feeding quite near us ; and as we stood looking at her a young one , about the size of a full - grown cat , put its head out THE KANGAROO . 63.
... . young in We saw in the Zoological Gardens at Melbourne a white female kangaroo feeding quite near us ; and as we stood looking at her a young one , about the size of a full - grown cat , put its head out THE KANGAROO . 63.
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... Melbourne and Adelaide , and were just as handsome and as innocent looking as those you see here in the picture . A fox always looks as if there was something wrong with his conscience ; the wolf , as if he has no con- science , and ...
... Melbourne and Adelaide , and were just as handsome and as innocent looking as those you see here in the picture . A fox always looks as if there was something wrong with his conscience ; the wolf , as if he has no con- science , and ...
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... Melbourne had in a case , stuffed , the five specimens , the female and one male of each year up to the fourth , and through him we learned many most interesting facts respecting the regent , and other birds and animals of Australia ...
... Melbourne had in a case , stuffed , the five specimens , the female and one male of each year up to the fourth , and through him we learned many most interesting facts respecting the regent , and other birds and animals of Australia ...
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Página 235 - I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Página 223 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low : and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain...
Página 219 - Twere all as well to bid a cloud to stand, Or hold a running river with the hand. But thou that art to save, thine hour is nigh! The sad world waiteth in its misery, The blind world stumbleth on its round of pain; Rise, Maya's child! wake! slumber not again!
Página 282 - The great soul of Dante, homeless on earth, made its home more and more in that awful other world.
Página 287 - THE mountains of this glorious land Are conscious beings to mine eye, When at the break of day they stand Like giants, looking through the sky, To hail the sun's unrisen car, That gilds their diadems of snow ; While one by one, as star by star, Their peaks in ether glow.
Página 219 - Maya's son ! because we roam the earth Moan we upon these strings ; we make no mirth, So many woes we see in many lands'; So many streaming eyes and wringing hands.
Página 219 - We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.
Página 173 - Soft as the dew from heaven descends His gentle accents fell : The modest stranger lowly bends, And follows to the cell. Far in a wilderness obscure The lonely mansion lay, A refuge to the neighbouring poor, And strangers led astray.
Página 12 - Roughly speaking, the territory comprised within it is about 2,500 miles from east to west and 2,000 miles from north to south, with an approximate area of 1,800,000 sq.
Página 255 - Cfesar and his household, as well as to suffer the loss of all things that he might win Christ. We had a pleasant day's sail along the coast of Greece, sheltered from the north-east wind by Lively and picturesque islands, on some of which were charming residences, hamlets and towns. We sailed into Brindisi on the morning of the 3rd of February. This old town was more nourishing in the days of the emperors than now.