The New Zealand Handbook: (fourteenth Edition) with Practical Information for All Orders of Emigrants from the "capitalist" to the "working Man." |
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Page 15 - There, methinks, would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, — In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions, cramped no longer, shall have scope and breathing-space ; I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
Page 15 - I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Iron-jointed, supple-sinew'd, they shall dive, and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in' the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks, Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books...
Page 80 - Wine containing more than 25 per cent, of alcohol of a specific gravity of '825 at the temperature of 60 degrees of Fahrenheit's Thermometer, for every gallon in proportion to...
Page 81 - Paper, for printing purposes only. Paper, hand-made or machine-made book or writing, of sizes not less than the size known as "demy," when in original wrappers, and with uncut edges as it leaves the mill.
Page 15 - Iron-jointed, supple-sinewed, they shall dive, and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks, Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books — Fool, again the dream, the fancy!
Page 56 - Nicholson, where malaria is no more to be feared than on the top of Chimborazo, and where active habits of industry and enterprise are evidently favoured by the elastic tone and perpetual motion of the atmosphere. If I am not mistaken, no fog can ever linger long over Wellington, to deaden the intellectual faculties of its inhabitants.
Page 11 - Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine, After the Tuscan mariners transformed, Coasting the Tyrrhene shore, as the winds listed, On Circe's island fell. (Who knows not Circe...
Page 56 - And no one can speak of the healthfulness of New Zealand till he has been ventilated by the restless breezes of Port Nicholson, where malaria is no more to be feared than on the top of Chimborazo, and where active habits of industry and enterprise are evidently favoured by the elastic tone and perpetual motion of the atmosphere. If I am not mistaken, no fog can ever linger long...
Page 77 - Apparel and Readymade clothing, and all articles made up wholly or in part from silk, cotton, linen or wool, or of other or of mixed materials.
Page 82 - Tools, artificers' Treacle and molasses when mixed with bone black in such proportions and under such regulations as the Commissioner of Customs may prescribe in that behalf VEGETABLES, dried Vermicelli...