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... native health and moral vigour . " " The adoption of your grand , and philanthropic principle , in whatever shape it may be introduced into that system , the substitution of moral influence for mere physical coercion , - will go far at ...
... native health and moral vigour . " " The adoption of your grand , and philanthropic principle , in whatever shape it may be introduced into that system , the substitution of moral influence for mere physical coercion , - will go far at ...
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... native land , so that to them trans- portation for a limited period generally proves banishment for life . " " A prisoner may be convicted of insubordination , or inso- lence , and receive punishment , when some angry or opprobrious ...
... native land , so that to them trans- portation for a limited period generally proves banishment for life . " " A prisoner may be convicted of insubordination , or inso- lence , and receive punishment , when some angry or opprobrious ...
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... native character subdued , — not cultivated , or applied . -- And this leads me to another portion of the subject , on which I almost scruple to enter , though some notice of it seems at the same time expedient . Colonization has of ...
... native character subdued , — not cultivated , or applied . -- And this leads me to another portion of the subject , on which I almost scruple to enter , though some notice of it seems at the same time expedient . Colonization has of ...
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... native shores . * I earnestly deprecate , then , whole communities of prisoners , or any application of their labor as domestic slaves , —or any thing , indeed , even approaching to the existing mode of treating them . But to this ...
... native shores . * I earnestly deprecate , then , whole communities of prisoners , or any application of their labor as domestic slaves , —or any thing , indeed , even approaching to the existing mode of treating them . But to this ...
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... earnestly re- commend that the pattern of the Mother Country be followed as closely as possible . There is even a subor- dinate reason for this ; -for Englishmen are in the main proud of their native institutions , and many speculative 164.
... earnestly re- commend that the pattern of the Mother Country be followed as closely as possible . There is even a subor- dinate reason for this ; -for Englishmen are in the main proud of their native institutions , and many speculative 164.
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Aborigines advantage appears arrangements assigned servants Australian authority better BREVIATES Cambridge character Christian Church circumstances civilization classes conduct consequently considered contrary Convict Management crime criminals degradation desire Diemen's Land direct punishment domestic drunkenness effect England English evil existing system favorable feeling GEORGE WASHINGTON WALKER give Government habits HISTORY Hobart Town human improved individual indulgence inflicted injury instruction interest King's College School labor laws less London masters means ment merely moral influence natives nature object obtained Octavo offence officers operation opinion parties Penal Colonies person persuaded physical police political population Prayer present system principle prison discipline probation proposed racter reason reform regard respect result scarcely Secondary punishment sentence settlers shew shewn sidered slavery slaves social society South Wales spirit success temptation tendency Thirty-Nine Articles ticket-of-leave tion Transportation University of Cambridge Van Diemen's Land Volume whole WILLIAM WHEWELL
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