"These matters having been arranged, I had a……" — Charles Sturt
"These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information."
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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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One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that…
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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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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we…
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,…
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in…
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