Australian Capers: Or, Christopher Cockle's Colonial ExperienceG. Routledge, 1867 - 444 pages |
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Page 439 - For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance And the good that I can do.
Page 355 - ... that he attributed what little he knew to the not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to the rule he had laid down of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics chiefly that formed their own peculiar professions or pursuits.
Page 337 - If you would relish your food heartily, labour to obtain it. If you would enjoy your raiment thoroughly, pay for it before you put it on; and if you would sleep soundly, take a clear conscience to bed with you.
Page 317 - Idleness. — The worst vices, springing from the worst principles, the excesses of the libertine, and the outrages of the plunderer, usually take their rise from early and unsubdued idleness.
Page 103 - Spartans paid as much attention to the rearing of men, as the folks in modern England do to the breeding of cattle. They took charge of the firmness and looseness of men's flesh, and regulated the degree of fatness to which it was lawful, in a free state, for any citizen to extend his body. Those who dared to grow too fat, or too soft for military exercise and the service of Sparta, were soundly whipped. In one particular instance, that of Nauclis, the son of...
Page 274 - A straight and flat back, with never a hump ; She's wide in her hips, and calm in her eyes, She's fine in her shoulders, and thin in her thighs. She's light in her neck, and small in her tail. She's wide in her breast, and good at the pail, She's fine in her bone, and silky of skin...
Page 14 - I tell you again, Mr. Cockle," continued Sam, after he had refreshed himself with a glass of punch, " and I '1l maintain what I say, there is not a country on the face of the globe where...
Page 274 - She's clean in her jaws, and full in her chine, She's heavy in flank, and wide in her loin ; She's broad in her ribs, and long in her rump, A straight and flat back...
Page 103 - Those who dared to grow too soft or too fat for military exercise and the service of Sparta, were soundly whipped. In one particular instance, that of Nauclis, the son of Polybus, the offender was brought before the Ephori and a meeting of the whole people of Sparta, at which his unlawful fatness was publicly exposed, and he was threatened with perpetual banishment if he did not bring his body within the regular Spartan compass, and give up his culpable mode of living, which was declared to be more...
Page 432 - Dear father and mother, pray forgive me, and do write me as soon as you receive this, and let me know that I have your pardon : then I shall be happy.