Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 41
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divine legislature who descended amongst men with the Gospel in one hand and holiest examples in the other. To do this effectually, Mrs Fry may remain in her parlour, and the sectarians who squabble about abstract points of doctrine, absent themselves from the Gaols, and who to convert a criminal to their mode of thinking makes him a greater hyprocrite and thousand times more the child of hell than he was before.
The exclaimers and promoters of prison discipline cease clamouring about that of what they know nothing, and can know nothing of, and Mr Gouger who have gotten within his fangs the most noble and illustrious individuals of this country for the ostensible purpose of depriving men of the happiness of breathing their native air, and banishing them to distant climes, because they are children of poverty - I say these people may cease their clamour and their philanthropy, and let the men learn to prize that in the Females of their country which alone is praiseworthy and as [indecipherable] to despise those ornaments which constituted the [indecipherable] of a Grecian harlot, and an Egyptian [indecipherable] and when the fair sex shall learn to value that honourable applause which is the reward of simplicity of manners, modesty, and the higher order of virtue, mothers will then step