"One of the greatest objections which families have……" — Charles Sturt
"One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate."
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Charles Sturt
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19 Quotes by Charles Sturt
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We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset.
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In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
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It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their…
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Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are…
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On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.
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Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly…
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The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to…
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Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.
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If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes…
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Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only…
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Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of…
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The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is,…
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More Apprehension Quotes
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
— Honore de Balzac
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
— Henri Bergson
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
— Donald Cargill
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
— Florence Nightingale
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
— Alexander Pope
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
— Karl Barth
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is…
— Susan Sontag
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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power…
— William Wordsworth
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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
— Edmund Burke
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
— Heraclitus
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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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