Introduction to a Historical Geography of the British ColoniesClarendon Press, 1887 - 142 pages |
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Introduction to a historical geography of the British colonies Sir Charles Lucas No preview available - 2012 |
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Page 40 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant.
Page 129 - Colonies, in which the Crown has the entire control of legislation, while the administration is carried on by public officers under the control of the Home Government; secondly, colonies possessing Representative Institutions, in which the Crown has no more than a veto on legislation...
Page 41 - On the whole, as a place of punishment, the object is scarcely gained; as a real system of reform it has failed, as perhaps would every other plan; but as a means of making men outwardly honest, — of converting vagabonds, most useless in one hemisphere, into active citizens of another, and thus giving birth to a new and splendid country — a grand centre of civilization — it has succeeded to a degree perhaps unparalleled in history. 30th. — The Beagle sailed for Hobart Town in Van Diemen's...
Page 55 - Romans was confined to the land; nor was that warlike people ever actuated by the enterprising spirit which had prompted the navigators of Tyre, of Carthage, and even of Marseilles, to enlarge the bounds of the world, and to explore the most remote coasts of the ocean.
Page 94 - ... and acquiring territory beyond the seas they were at first outstripped by other European nations. At the same time England was worthily represented in early maritime enterprise. * * * But, bold and energetic as were the English voyagers of the sixteenth century, their enterprise produced at the time no tangible result. For a century and more after the first discovery of the New World and the rounding of the Cape of Good Hope the English people were merely training themselves for the coming time....
Page 129 - Government retains the control of public officers. 3. Colonies possessing Representative Institutions and Responsible Government, in which the Crown has only a veto on legislation, and the Home Government has no control over any public officer except the Governor.
Page 31 - The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever.
Page 37 - We lose a good deal of our sympathy with the spirit of freedom in Greece and Rome, when the importunate recollection occurs to us, of the tasks which might be enjoined, and the punishments which might be inflicted, without...
Page 2 - A COLONY properly denotes a body of persons belonging to one country and political community, who, having abandoned that country and community, form a new and separate society, independent* or dependent, in some district which is wholly or nearly uninhabited, or from which they expel the ancient inhabitants.
Page 117 - men may rise From their dead selves to higher things " it is not for kings, or ministers, or laws, or restrictions to stop that rise by mischievous interference. But as I think, and Mr. Lucas has well expressed, "the liberal Colonial policy of England of the last hundred years, which stands out in brilliant contrast to the systems of other times and other nations, is the direct fruit of her greatest mistake and her most striking failure...