Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 42
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forth, watch the education of their children, train them up in manly virtue, and render them good citizens. - It is to the matrons of any commonwealth that we look up to for achieving the nobler [indecipherable] of humanity, let them do their duty, and all the above described political quacks may return to their that in significant station which they ought to occupy in life.
Public and Virtue, and private work, is are the supporters of freedom. Virtue and freedom are not twin sisters, they are more - they are two branches entwined of on the same stem - if one perishes, the other immediately droops and perishes also.
As to liberty, as has been stated elsewhere by me I would not give myself the slightest concern or trouble about it
reflecting on the transitory state of man's duration shortness of human life, instability of fortune and the uncertainty of all transitory enjoyments, I would rather rub on in as quick a manner as possible, but I also
reflect that the end of the