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Indeed the infinity of the native names of places, all of which are descriptive and appropriate, is of itself a prima facie evidence of their having strong ideas of property in the soil; for it is only where such ideas are entertained and acted on that we find, as is certainly the case in Australia, Nullum sine nomine saxum. I am, my dear Friend, Your's very sincerely, To Dr. Hodgkin.
"Well, I have been smoke-dried and pickled in strong waters, until Dr. Hodgkin accounts me safe, or I would not come nigh thee. See, sweetheart, this is your aunt, whom you are to love next best to your mother." "But not so well as you, sir. You are first," said the child, and then turned to Angela and held up her rosebud mouth to be kissed. "You saved my father's life," she said.
The disease was conquered, the pest-spots were healing fairly, and his nurses had only to contend against the weakness and depression which seemed but the natural sequence of the malady. Dr. Hodgkin was satisfied with his patient's progress.
So hard was the frost that the garment which the matron's persevering toil had woven had to be broken before a man might fit it to his body. Food for thy marching armies was forced from the grasp of the hostile nations around, or procured by the cunning of the hunter." It has been supposed by Mr. Hodgkin that not less than 40,000 fighting men and some 200,000 souls in all thus entered Italy.
Lang, the Principal of Sydney College, New South Wales, to Dr. Hodgkin, the zealous advocate of the Aboriginal Races:* Liverpool, 15th November 1840. My Dear Friend,
The two greatest authorities on Venice are Thomas Hodgkin, who made a life study of Italy and her invaders, and the immortal Ruskin, whose grandly descriptive articles were written in the atmosphere of Venice and the Adriatic Sea. The terrible invaders, made wrathful and terrible by the resistance of Aquileia, streamed through the trembling cities of Venetia.
After Monsieur Berauld's interment, his women, and the head people of the town, assembled round the grave occasionally, for a series of days, requiring every evening, from Mr. Hodgkin, a candle to light his grave, which they kept burning during the period of their mourning, under the idea that it would light him in the other world.
Not one word more, save for instructions." Dr. Hodgkin loved talking even better than he loved a fee, and he allowed himself a physician's licence to be prosy; but he now proceeded to give minute directions for the treatment of the patient the poultices and stoups and lotions which were to reduce the external indications of the contagion, the medicines which were to be given at intervals during the night.
"To Dr. Hodgkin." The dwellings of the Aborigines are simple, of a very temporary character, and requiring but little skill or labour to construct them.
"To Dr. Hodgkin." The dwellings of the Aborigines are simple, of a very temporary character, and requiring but little skill or labour to construct them.
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