The Quest for GraceSecond part of the late Manning Clark's autobiography which began with TThe Puzzles of Childhood' (1989). By the author of the celebrated six-volume TA History of Australia', this book traces Clark's journey of self-discovery to Oxford and Europe and his return to Australia. |
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... Christian Movement , who ran weekends at Chum Creek where they dispensed Christian cheerfulness , Christian mateyness , and anything which papered over all the evil in the world . They were the dispensers and distributors of the physic ...
... Christian Movement , who ran weekends at Chum Creek where they dispensed Christian cheerfulness , Christian mateyness , and anything which papered over all the evil in the world . They were the dispensers and distributors of the physic ...
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... Christian duty to report me to Army Intelligence in Melbourne . That did not silence me . A few months later Colin Badger , the enterprising director of the Council of Adult Education , invited me to speak at a weekend school in Geelong ...
... Christian duty to report me to Army Intelligence in Melbourne . That did not silence me . A few months later Colin Badger , the enterprising director of the Council of Adult Education , invited me to speak at a weekend school in Geelong ...
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... Christian witness ' in the church . He asks me with a wild look of anxiety in his eye , ' You do believe , Mann , we will see her again ? ' I do not say a word . What could be said ? A clergyman recited the comfortable words : that as ...
... Christian witness ' in the church . He asks me with a wild look of anxiety in his eye , ' You do believe , Mann , we will see her again ? ' I do not say a word . What could be said ? A clergyman recited the comfortable words : that as ...
Contents
The Quest Begins | 1 |
Becoming a Melbourne Boy | 29 |
An Australian in the Land of Holy Wonders | 48 |
Copyright | |
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