 | 1839 - 444 ページ
...immediately strangled*. * Diod. Sic. Hist. lib. xil. DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA FELIX. ".We had at length discovered a country ready for the immediate reception of civilised man, and fit to become eventually one of the great nations of the earth. Unincumbercd with too much wood, yet possessing enough... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1846 - 606 ページ
...in greater luxuriance than I had ever before seen in Australia.' ' We had at length,' he proceeds, ' discovered a country ready for the immediate reception of civilised man, and fit to become eventually one of the great nations of the earth. Unencumbered with too much wood, yet possessing enough... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1846 - 598 ページ
...in greater luxuriance than I had ever before seen in Australia.' ' We had at length,' he proceeds, ' discovered a country ready for the immediate reception of civilised man, and fit to become eventually one of the great nations of the earth. Unencumbered with too much wood, yet possessing enough... | |
 | James Bonwick - 1855 - 230 ページ
...call the region, Australia Felix, Australia the Sappy, and proudly did he exclaim, " We had at length discovered a country ready for the immediate reception of civilised man, and, fit to become one of the great nations of the earth." Leaving Macedon, September 27th, Mitchell crossed the Goulburn,... | |
 | William Howitt - 1865 - 450 ページ
...named the Avon, and the Major again broke out in praises of this grand discover}". " At length we had discovered a country ready for the immediate reception of civilised man, and destined, perhaps, eventually to become a portion of a great empire. Unencumbered by too much wood,... | |
 | William Brackley Wildey - 1876 - 440 ページ
...Mitchell, write, with reference to Victoria, " We had at length discovered a country"—Australia Felix—" ready for the immediate reception of civilised man, and fit to become one of the great nations of the earth." After the return of Batman, in 1835, to Launceston, from Port... | |
 | William Brackley Wildey - 1876 - 444 ページ
...write, with reference to Victoria, " We had at length discovered a country" — Australia Felix — " ready for the immediate reception of civilised man, and fit to become one of the great nations of the earth." After the return of Batman, in 1835, to Launceston, from Port... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1879 - 760 ページ
...beautiful scenery, that he named the district " Australia Felix," declaring that he had at length found a country ready for the -immediate reception of civilised...the abode of one of the great nations of the earth. 5. Journeys of Eyre and Sturt to the Desert Interior. Soon after the colony of South Australia was... | |
 | S.W. Silver & Co - 1880 - 522 ページ
...the appellation of AUSTRALIA FELIX ; and rightly and prophetically did he exclaim, ' We had at length discovered a country ready for the immediate reception of civilised man, and fit to become one of the great nations of the earth!' Gipps Land was made known by Count Strzelecki and Mr. Angus... | |
 | 1881 - 632 ページ
...pour into the juvenile city from the old centres of population in the northern hemisphere. In 1885, Major Mitchell, who had been exploring the interior,...discovered a country ready for the immediate reception of civilized man, and fit to become [the abode of J one of the great nations of the earth ! ' Settlers... | |
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Felix," in admiration of its natural fertility; and exclaimed, " We have discovered a country ready for the immediate reception of civilised man, and fit to become [the abode of] one of the great nations of the earth. 
