The Book Lover
A Literary Review (detail)

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NASCAR Grocery
Black Purses
wool gathering
realising your dream of home
roofed with Marseilles Tiles
a naturally-earned six-pack

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Stanzas
[The following lines were written on the return of L. Leichhardt, Esq.,
on the 25th March, 1846, from an Expedition through the Unexplored
Regions of Australia between Moreton Bay and Port Essington]—by E.K.S.

Thy footsteps have return'd again, thou wanderer of the wild,
Where Nature from her lonely throne, in giant beauty smiled.
Pilgrim of mighty wastes, untrod by foot before,
Triumphant o'er the wilderness, the weary journey's o'er!
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Proud man! In after ages, the story shall be told,
Of that advent'rous traveller, the generous, the bold,
Who scorning hope of selfish gain, disdaining soft repose,
First taught the howling wilderness to blossom like the rose.

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The Shepheards Kalender

...between pride and humility, as the chaffe and the corn, for the chaffe is light and mounteth high, and the wind carrieth it about, and so is lost, and the corn which is heavy abideth low on the ground...

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TICKET OF LEAVE
No. 28/102

Colonial Secretary's Office,
New South Wales.
16th May 1828

It is His Excellency the Governor's Pleasure to Dispense with the
Attendance at Government Work of William Anson
who was tried at Waterford Summer Assizes, 1823
Convict for Seven years, arrived per Ship Castle Forbes
Ord Master, in the Year 1824 and to permit him
to employ himself (off the Stores) in any lawful Occupation with the
District of Parramatta for his own Advantage during good Behaviour;
or, until His Excellency's further Pleasure shall be made known.

By His Excellency's Command.
Alexr. McLeay


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The South Seas
Part I: The Marquesas
An Island Landfall
—Robert Louis Stevenson

For nearly ten years my health had been declining: and for some while before I set forth upon my voyage, I believed I was come to the afterpiece of life, and had nothing the muse and undertaker to expect. It was suggested that I should try the South Seas; and I was not unwilling to [indecipherable] visit like a ghost, and be carried like a babe, among scenes that had attracted me in youth and health. I chartered accordingly Dr Trewit's schooner yacht, the Casco, 74 tons register, sailed from San Francisco towards the end of June 1888, visited the Eastern Islands, and was left at Honolulu early the next year. Hence, lacking courage to return to my old life of the house and sickroom, I set forth to leeward in a trading schooler, the Equator of a little over seventy tons...
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