The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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Page 463
Yet , with a simplicity reflecting more credit on his heart than his head , Goulburn
could write with all seriousness that “ huge grants of land to individuals have
been the bane of all our colonies , and it has been the main object of Lord
Bathurst's ...
Yet , with a simplicity reflecting more credit on his heart than his head , Goulburn
could write with all seriousness that “ huge grants of land to individuals have
been the bane of all our colonies , and it has been the main object of Lord
Bathurst's ...
Page 464
A man , if he pleases , may invest a million dollars in land . If he miscalculate it is
his own fault ; the public is , under every circumstance , the gainer . Here then at
a critical point in imperial development had arisen a huge parallel experiment in
...
A man , if he pleases , may invest a million dollars in land . If he miscalculate it is
his own fault ; the public is , under every circumstance , the gainer . Here then at
a critical point in imperial development had arisen a huge parallel experiment in
...
Page 469
THE AUSTRALIAN LAND SALES ACT OF 1842 469 in Stanley's Australian Land
Sales Act of 1842 , the result was not something which Wakefield could accept as
an expression of his doctrines . At the same time it was certainly not in ...
THE AUSTRALIAN LAND SALES ACT OF 1842 469 in Stanley's Australian Land
Sales Act of 1842 , the result was not something which Wakefield could accept as
an expression of his doctrines . At the same time it was certainly not in ...
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