A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 97
... Parkes . Charles Harpur , who had held up Wentworth to ridicule as the turncoat who had begun his public career as a friend of the people and ended it as the ' bellowing champion of the few ' , was saddened : ' I like you , friend Parkes ...
... Parkes . Charles Harpur , who had held up Wentworth to ridicule as the turncoat who had begun his public career as a friend of the people and ended it as the ' bellowing champion of the few ' , was saddened : ' I like you , friend Parkes ...
Page 375
... Parkes had reached that stage in life when his rhetoric about the future greatness of Australia was greeted with derision . He had become a figure of fun , a man in whom the gap between profession and performance had become unbridgeable ...
... Parkes had reached that stage in life when his rhetoric about the future greatness of Australia was greeted with derision . He had become a figure of fun , a man in whom the gap between profession and performance had become unbridgeable ...
Page 408
... Parkes was never far I from death . His poor suffering wife Clarinda died on 2 February without a word to him or a movement of the faintest kind . All she had managed to say much earlier was , ' Yes , I'll sleep a little . ' Parkes ...
... Parkes was never far I from death . His poor suffering wife Clarinda died on 2 February without a word to him or a movement of the faintest kind . All she had managed to say much earlier was , ' Yes , I'll sleep a little . ' Parkes ...
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THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN 23 2 453 | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
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