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 207
As a prisoner of the Crown , Morgan had been flogged unmercifully until he took
to the bush where he lived like a wild beast in the Wagga Wagga , Jerilderie and
Deniliquin districts , terrorizing the ' swell folks ' in the big houses , sneering at ...
As a prisoner of the Crown , Morgan had been flogged unmercifully until he took
to the bush where he lived like a wild beast in the Wagga Wagga , Jerilderie and
Deniliquin districts , terrorizing the ' swell folks ' in the big houses , sneering at ...
Page 306
After a wild youth in England he was exiled by his parents for an offence he had
probably not committed . His parents had accused him of staining his pedigree
and belying his blood as a Gordon . From that time he became the man with wild
...
After a wild youth in England he was exiled by his parents for an offence he had
probably not committed . His parents had accused him of staining his pedigree
and belying his blood as a Gordon . From that time he became the man with wild
...
Page 335
They must be shown the consequences of glorying in the ' ferocity of wild beasts '
. Ned Kelly must suffer an ignominious death ; he must hang by the neck until
dead . 27 In the central criminal court in Melbourne on 28 October 1880 the trial
of ...
They must be shown the consequences of glorying in the ' ferocity of wild beasts '
. Ned Kelly must suffer an ignominious death ; he must hang by the neck until
dead . 27 In the central criminal court in Melbourne on 28 October 1880 the trial
of ...
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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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