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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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1 a 3 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 ...
1 a 3 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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