Nelson, the Latest Settlement of the New Zealand CompanySmith, Elder, 1842 - 44 pages |
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acre adapted advance advantages allotments amusement APPENDIX arrival Australia bishop capital CHARLES HEAPHY Christian church classes of society climate colonists Colony of Nelson coloured commencement condition country land cultivation desire Dieman's Land Ditto doubt Duke of Sussex duties emigrants encouragement establishment expedition experience of older favourable feeling Flax formed future give grace Gravesend HEAPHY higher influences hoped human improving individual instruction intellectual interest islands January 20 labouring class legislation London Lower Canada means ment mind missionaries moderate moral Natives nature numbers object observances Old Bailey older colonies Plymouth Port Nicholson present price of land principal progress prospect prosperity rapid refined religious respect Royal Highness sailing secure settlements settlers settling shewing social South Wales spirit steam surveying staff sympathy Tahiti taste teacher things tions toil Tomatin TOWN OF WELLINGTON Van Dieman's Land views voyage Wakefield writer young Zealand Company
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Page 29 - So far is manual labour from meriting contempt or slight, that it will probably be found, when united with true means of spiritual culture, to foster a sounder judgment, a keener observation, a more creative imagination, and a purer taste, than any other vocation.
Page 26 - Dancing is an amusement, which has been discouraged in our country by many of the best people, and not without reason. Dancing is associated in their minds with balls ; and this is one of the worst forms of social pleasure. The time consumed in preparation for a ball, the waste of thought upon it, the extravagance of dress, the late hours, the exhaustion of strength, the exposure of health, and the languor of the succeeding day, — these and other evils, connected with this amusement, are strong...
Page 35 - All this is very surprising, when it is considered that five years ago nothing but the fern flourished here. Moreover, native workmanship, taught by the missionaries, has effected this change; - the lesson of the missionary is the enchanter's wand.
Page 26 - Its end is, to realize perfect grace in motion; and who does not know that a sense of the graceful is one of the higher faculties of our nature? It is to be desired that dancing should become too common among us to be made the object of special preparation as in the ball ; that members of the same family, when...
Page 35 - At Waimate there are three large houses, where the missionary gentlemen, Messrs. Williams, Davies, and Clarke, reside ; and near them are the huts of the native labourers. On an adjoining slope, fine crops of barley and wheat were standing in full ear ; and in another part, fields of potatoes and clover. But I cannot attempt to describe all I saw. There were large gardens, with every fruit and vegetable which England produces, and many belonging to a warmer clime.
Page 35 - On an adjoining slope, fine crops of barley and wheat were standing in full ear ; and in another part, fields of potatoes and clover. But I cannot attempt to describe all I saw. There were large gardens, with every fruit and vegetable which England produces, and many belonging to a warmer clime. I may instance asparagus, kidney beans, cucumbers, rhubarb, apples, pears, figs, peaches, apricots, grapes, olives, gooseberries, currants, hops, gorse for fences, and English oaks ; also many kinds of flowers.
Page 25 - Man was made to enjoy, as well as to labour; and the state of society should be adapted to this principle of human nature. France, especially before the revolution, has been represented as a singularly temperate country; a fact to be explained, at least in part, by the constitutional cheerfulness of that people, and by the prevalence of simple and innocent gratifications, especially among the peasantry.
Page 31 - What we want is, a race of teachers acquainted with the philosophy of the mind, gifted men and women, who shall respect human nature in the child, and strive to touch and gently bring out his best powers and sympathies ; and who shall devote themselves to this as the great end of life.