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 158
... the weakness he felt and the utter inability to move . As far as appetite was
concerned , nardoo gave him the ' greatest satisfaction ' . That day he found the
strength to write a letter of farewell to his father : Cooper ' s Creek , June 27 ,
1861 .
... the weakness he felt and the utter inability to move . As far as appetite was
concerned , nardoo gave him the ' greatest satisfaction ' . That day he found the
strength to write a letter of farewell to his father : Cooper ' s Creek , June 27 ,
1861 .
Page 173
The father professed to be a free - thinker , but he read the Bible . The mother ' s
moral code was very strict . She taught them to think of cards as ' the Devil ' s
Playthings ' , to think of horse - racing and gambling as unpardonable offences .
The father professed to be a free - thinker , but he read the Bible . The mother ' s
moral code was very strict . She taught them to think of cards as ' the Devil ' s
Playthings ' , to think of horse - racing and gambling as unpardonable offences .
Page 262
The evidence he had hoped for of the marriage of his father to Catherine Crowley
had still not been found and the search for a pedigree of his father ' s family was
running into all sorts of difficulties . The knighthood he had expected for his ...
The evidence he had hoped for of the marriage of his father to Catherine Crowley
had still not been found and the search for a pedigree of his father ' s family was
running into all sorts of difficulties . The knighthood he had expected for his ...
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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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