A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888This fourth volume continues the story [of the history of Australia] from the discovery of gold in February 1851 to the centenary of the coming of European civilization to Australia on January 26 1888. Its vital theme concerns the debate in Australian about the life of man without God; and the impending breakdown of bourgeois society, succeeded by an age of ruins. |
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Page 109
He had a face of such delicacy , mildness and sweetness that those in his
company felt they were in the presence of a cherub , an angel who had been
vouchsafed a vision of God ' s throne . He was kind to drunks , whom he
sheltered from the ...
He had a face of such delicacy , mildness and sweetness that those in his
company felt they were in the presence of a cherub , an angel who had been
vouchsafed a vision of God ' s throne . He was kind to drunks , whom he
sheltered from the ...
Page 233
In such opium dens brown and withered figures , with unstrung muscles , leaden
eyes and corpse - like faces , reclined on benches puffing away at their pipes ,
hoping to induce visions of extraordinary beauty or to revel in those sensuous ...
In such opium dens brown and withered figures , with unstrung muscles , leaden
eyes and corpse - like faces , reclined on benches puffing away at their pipes ,
hoping to induce visions of extraordinary beauty or to revel in those sensuous ...
Page 296
He agreed that God had confronted men with nothing but mystery , but they must
take comfort from the promise of Saint Paul : ' Now we see through a glass darkly
, but then face to face ' . 42 The Catholic Church proclaimed its intention to keep ...
He agreed that God had confronted men with nothing but mystery , but they must
take comfort from the promise of Saint Paul : ' Now we see through a glass darkly
, but then face to face ' . 42 The Catholic Church proclaimed its intention to keep ...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888 Volume 4 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1962 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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