"Colonisation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... takes me to Forest Hill. At this dinner were two celebrated American gentlemen—Mr. Sparkes, who wrote Washington's Life; and Mr. Clisson, a man of fortune, and benevolently enthusiastic about colonisation in Liberia. ...
— The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth
... equally "American" in every particular, differing only in race-stock and heritage; yet of them all, none save British Canada will even bear comparison with us. We are great because we are a part of the great Anglo-Saxon cultural sphere; a section detached only after a century and a half of heavy colonisation and English rule, which gave to our land the ...
— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft
... Meanwhile the attempt at colonisation had been a failure and the fleet had sailed away and reached the Moluccas, to which ...
— The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea • George Collingridge
... Europe, whether Scandinavian or Teuton, Angle or Frank. They were a practical hard-headed race, with a strong appreciation of facts, and a strong determination to act on them. Their laws, their society, their commerce, their colonisation, their migrations by land and sea, proved that they were such. They were favoured, moreover, by circumstances, or—as I should rather put it—by that divine Providence which determined their times, and the bounds of their habitation. ...
— Scientific Essays and Lectures • Charles Kingsley
... attempting its ascent, and the people of the town are as ignorant of the land lying along that river's shores as on the day when the old naturalist, Azara, paddles his periagua some forty miles against its obstructing current. No scheme of colonisation has ever been designed or thought of by them; for it is only near its source, as we have seen, that settlements exist. In the Chaco no white man's town ever stood upon its banks, nor church spire flung shadow ...
— Gaspar the Gaucho - A Story of the Gran Chaco • Mayne Reid
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