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Page 211
Bligh spent that day neither reflecting on how overweening pride and arrogance
could bring even the giants of this world to destruction , nor , as did other eye
witnesses , in moralizing on the treachery of natives to representatives of a higher
...
Bligh spent that day neither reflecting on how overweening pride and arrogance
could bring even the giants of this world to destruction , nor , as did other eye
witnesses , in moralizing on the treachery of natives to representatives of a higher
...
Page 213
Again Bligh was enraged , and called Short a specious and low character , a
wicked and most violent man , a most irritating and insulting person . 14 They
landed at Sydney Cove on 8 August 1806 to general rejoicing in the colony ,
while ...
Again Bligh was enraged , and called Short a specious and low character , a
wicked and most violent man , a most irritating and insulting person . 14 They
landed at Sydney Cove on 8 August 1806 to general rejoicing in the colony ,
while ...
Page 225
Bligh , believing Foveaux had arrived in the colony with authority to reinstate him
, 65 immediately sent three of his supporters , Griffin , Palmer and Fulton , to
present his compliments to Lieutenant - Colonel Foveaux , who declined to see
them ...
Bligh , believing Foveaux had arrived in the colony with authority to reinstate him
, 65 immediately sent three of his supporters , Griffin , Palmer and Fulton , to
present his compliments to Lieutenant - Colonel Foveaux , who declined to see
them ...
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Contents
THE EARLIEST TIMES TO CATHOLIC CHRISTENDOM | 5 |
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE PROTESTANTS | 23 |
THE SONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 41 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 1 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2008 |
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