A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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... give you five shillings . ' Plebeianism of the rankest kind was growing stronger every day . One woman asked plaintively whether the devils of Milton , Byron or Goethe could equal the digger larrikins of Melbourne.25 All those who ...
... give you five shillings . ' Plebeianism of the rankest kind was growing stronger every day . One woman asked plaintively whether the devils of Milton , Byron or Goethe could equal the digger larrikins of Melbourne.25 All those who ...
Page 40
... give power to coarse and commonplace people , to rich and ignorant parvenus who might have won their property qualification out of the profits of a Collingwood pigsty , or selling sly - grog or , worse still , having the good fortune to ...
... give power to coarse and commonplace people , to rich and ignorant parvenus who might have won their property qualification out of the profits of a Collingwood pigsty , or selling sly - grog or , worse still , having the good fortune to ...
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... give themselves up to the sensual luxury of hearing his voice.47 Professions of faith went on as though nothing had happened to plant difficulties or doubts in the minds of believers . In the Catholic churches the members of the ...
... give themselves up to the sensual luxury of hearing his voice.47 Professions of faith went on as though nothing had happened to plant difficulties or doubts in the minds of believers . In the Catholic churches the members of the ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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