A Boy's Voyage Round the World: Including a Residence in Victoria, and a Journey by Rail Across North AmericaSamuel Smiles John Murray, 1871 - 304 páginas |
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... sort of people were they among whom I was to live ? What were to be my next experiences ? We sped rapidly over the flat , lowly undulating , and comparatively monotonous country north of Melbourne until we reached the Dividing Range , a ...
... sort of people were they among whom I was to live ? What were to be my next experiences ? We sped rapidly over the flat , lowly undulating , and comparatively monotonous country north of Melbourne until we reached the Dividing Range , a ...
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... sort of whitish line— something that I could not quite make out . At first I thought it must be a town in the distance , with its large white houses . In the blue of the evening I could not then discern that what I took to be houses ...
... sort of whitish line— something that I could not quite make out . At first I thought it must be a town in the distance , with its large white houses . In the blue of the evening I could not then discern that what I took to be houses ...
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... sort ; for too many of the diggers , though they work like horses , spend like asses . Here , again , in the long main street of tents , where the shafts are often uncomfortably close to the road , the tradesmen are doing a roaring ...
... sort ; for too many of the diggers , though they work like horses , spend like asses . Here , again , in the long main street of tents , where the shafts are often uncomfortably close to the road , the tradesmen are doing a roaring ...
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... sort of working families live far more comfortably than our clerking or business young men do at home . The re- spectable workman belongs to the Mechanics ' Institute , where there is a very good circulating library ; he dresses well on ...
... sort of working families live far more comfortably than our clerking or business young men do at home . The re- spectable workman belongs to the Mechanics ' Institute , where there is a very good circulating library ; he dresses well on ...
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... sort . It must also be stated , as a plea for men resorting so much as they do to public houses , that there are few other places where they can meet and exchange talk with each other . I That every body may thrive here who will is evi ...
... sort . It must also be stated , as a plea for men resorting so much as they do to public houses , that there are few other places where they can meet and exchange talk with each other . I That every body may thrive here who will is evi ...
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Página 226 - Clatter' as much as a few years ago they would have enjoyed the roasting of a missionary or the baking of a baby? "It was certainly a page in one's life never to be forgotten.