The Colonization of New ZealandSmith, Elder, 1842 - 56 páginas |
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Página 15 - that it is a section of the globe where nature has indeed been bountiful, nay, lavish of her choicest gifts, in return for which, however, mankind has hitherto done nothing, beyond the country's first discovery, or rather has abused these gifts in various ways.
Página 15 - The theatre were therefore large enough in itself for the seat of the future dominion of a naval power—for a Britannia of the Southern hemisphere : larger in fact in space than the Italian central-seat of the...