"Australasian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all the Australian developments has been the approval of the main Distributist ideal by the Australasian Hierarchy as the aim of Catholic Social Action. This was especially set out in their Statement on Social Justice, issued on occasion of the first Social Justice Sunday in 1940.* The Hierarchy of New Zealand joined with that of Australia in ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
... a most pressing invitation, certainly, that I received two years ago to visit the great Australasian Colonies, and though at the time I was unable to give an answer in the affirmative or in the negative, still it soon became apparent that my many duties here in England, would prevent my accomplishing what would have been a long, ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various
... remain dependencies of Great Britain, and therefore lack the stimulus of an active patriotism, so long will much of whatever is individual in their social development and national aspirations be without expression. In the case of the Australasian colonies it would further mean (apart from any consideration of their future independence) that a people far removed from other communities of the same race and already giving promise of being the greatest power south of the equator, must continue for an indefinite period to be wholly sustained ...
— Australian Writers • Desmond Byrne
... the glorified political images may grow dim or tawdry with time, but the poetry has endured, and it is everywhere felt to be a truly national, a deeply racial product. Its time and place and hour were all local; but the Canadian and the American, the South African and Australasian Englishman feels that that Elizabethan poetry is ...
— The American Mind - The E. T. Earl Lectures • Bliss Perry
... profits to Tasmania. But another industry is growing and bids fair to become more profitable than either mining or cattle-growing. The fruit of Tasmania is of the very finest quality. Moreover, when the fruit is ripening in an Australasian spring and summer, all England is shivering in midwinter storms. What better business could there be than to ship apples and pears fresh from the Tasmanian orchards? Those same apples can be shipped half-way round the world and sold in England ...
— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson
... of the great Australian gold discovery is here told in an authentic and highly interesting manner by the historian of the Australasian colonies. ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne
... had a great veneration for his brother Missionary Bishop. Commenting on the fact that Bishop Selwyn's speech at Cambridge had made Charles Mackenzie a missionary, and that he would gladly have hailed an invitation to the Australasian field of labour, the ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... from The British Australasian Book-store, 51 High Holborn, London, W.C. 1., and all other Booksellers; and (wholesale only) from The Australian Book Company, 16 Farringdon ...
— Dot and the Kangaroo • Ethel C. Pedley
... for China and Japan, and carry the glad tidings to the heathen. Self-sacrificing souls gave up home and friends, and hurried across, overland, to brave the Pacific and bury themselves among the Australasian savages. But, though they all passed in sight of Hanney's, none of them paused to give any attention to the souls who had flocked there. Men came out from 'Frisco and the East to labor with the Chinese miners, who were the only peaceable and well-behaved ...
— Romance of California Life • John Habberton |
