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Page 97
Later he was to say a man could walk on the edge of eternity in the Australian
outback and never find even a single swagman who wanted to return . He
remembered it as a long long agony ' , where the world looked dismal and
funereal .
Later he was to say a man could walk on the edge of eternity in the Australian
outback and never find even a single swagman who wanted to return . He
remembered it as a long long agony ' , where the world looked dismal and
funereal .
Page 181
He could never bring himself to write as Mr Deakin wrote to Charles Cameron
Kingston about ' embraces ' . In the eyes of Mr Deakin and Barton , George Reid
stood hopelessly discredited by political trickery and deceit , a man with a ragged
...
He could never bring himself to write as Mr Deakin wrote to Charles Cameron
Kingston about ' embraces ' . In the eyes of Mr Deakin and Barton , George Reid
stood hopelessly discredited by political trickery and deceit , a man with a ragged
...
Page 387
... sang in drunken voices outside the officers ' mess on their transport the words :
' Britons , never , never , never shall be slaves ' : some of a serious turn of mind
scribbled on sheets of paper letters to wives or girlfriends or mothers or mates left
...
... sang in drunken voices outside the officers ' mess on their transport the words :
' Britons , never , never , never shall be slaves ' : some of a serious turn of mind
scribbled on sheets of paper letters to wives or girlfriends or mothers or mates left
...
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Contents
FRIENDS OF MAMMON AND PROPHETS OF EDEN | 1 |
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 43 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 55 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Australia A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1981 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 18 Feb 2009 |
| ISBN | 0522842232, 9780522842234 |
| Length | 448 pages |
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