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Passatges populars
Pàgina 316 - I thank you for the patience with which you have listened to me, and on which I have unwillingly trespassed so long.
Pàgina 75 - My Lord Duke, 'Your Grace's most obedient 'And very humble servant, 'QUINTUS SLIDE.
Pàgina 134 - I have done anything yet in the way of killing. Why do the white people start at nothing ? I have not yet begun ; I have yet to kill ; it is the custom of our nation, and I shall not depart from it.
Pàgina 134 - Go back and tell the English that I shall now act on my own account, and if they wish me to agree to their laws I shall leave and become a wanderer ; but before I go it will be seen, as I shall not go without having acted.
Pàgina 382 - Scrutineers of the ballot for the members of the Council to be elected at the meeting. The HONORARY SECRETARY read the Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting, which were confirmed. The CHAIRMAN then read the Annual Report, which had previously been circulated among the Fellows.
Pàgina iv - Eoom and Library, in which recent and authentic intelligence upon Colonial and Indian subjects may be constantly available, and a Museum for the collection and exhibition of Colonial and Indian productions ; to facilitate interchange of experiences amongst persons representing all the Dependencies...
Pàgina 74 - I have had the honour to lay before The Queen the loyal and dutiful Address of the President...
Pàgina 215 - ... morrow, ready to resume his usual vocation. The emigrant who may be troubled with the fear of an oppressive winter, may have all such qualms removed by knowing the opinion of Bryan Edwards, as recorded in his " History of the West Indies." Referring to Jamaica, he says : " If the interval from the beginning of December to the end of April be called winter, it is certainly the finest winter in the globe ; to valetudinarians and persons advanced in life, it is the climate of paradise.
Pàgina iv - Indian productions ; to facilitate interchange of experiences amongst persons representing all the dependencies of Great Britain; to afford opportunities for the reading of papers, and for holding discussions upon Colonial and Indian subjects generally ; and to undertake scientific, literary, and statistical investigations in connection with the British Empire. But no paper shall be read, or any discussion be permitted to take place, tending to give to the Institute a party character.
Pàgina 78 - Britain in its present annual export of over eleven millions of dollars worth of malt products. It raises and grazes the finest of cattle, with qualities especially desirable to make good the deterioration of stock in other sections...