 | Joseph Bryant - 1928 - 210 pages
...' Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original term it would have been to convert it to Australia ; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the other great portions of the earth.' Official opposition was prolonged, and the term New Holland continued... | |
 | Stuart Macintyre - 1999 - 340 pages
...Macquarie's eye lighted on a passage in it: 'Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original name, it would have been to convert it into AUSTRALIA; as being more agreeable to the ear.' At the end of the year Macquarie suggested that the name should be adopted for the whole of the islandcontinent... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Robert Burchfield, Roger Lass, Suzanne Romaine - 1992 - 696 pages
...than any other which could have been selected. (Flinders 1814, 1: iii) In a footnote Flinders adds 'Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original...more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.' By 1827 Peter Cunningham could write 'the climate... | |
 | Miriam Estensen - 2002 - 576 pages
...South Wales . . . and . . . the adjacent isles, including that of Van Diemen'. In a footnote he added, 'Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original...more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth'.10 Although Bligh expressed a liking for it, the little-known... | |
 | F. J. Fornasiero, Peter Monteath, John West-Sooby - 2004 - 468 pages
...Australia'. Flinders explains his preference in a cautiously worded footnote in A Voyage to Terra Australis: 'Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original...more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.' Only after the book's publication in 1814 - and thus... | |
 | National Library of Australia - 2007 - 96 pages
...Terra Australis in the text of his book. 'It has antiquity to recommend it,' he wrote, before adding: 'Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original...more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth'.) Astronomia: Teutsch Astronomei, acquired by the National... | |
 | Brian J. Coman - 2007 - 188 pages
...chart of what had hitherto been called New Holland but he personally preferred the name Australia: Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original...more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth. However, official printed recognition of the name Australia'... | |
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Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original term, it would have been to convert it into Australia; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth. 
