A History of Australia, Volume 4This 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 43
... looked like other ticket- of - leave men . The sins of the fathers were coming between him and that baronetcy which he coveted . In self - defence he began to wear on his face that ' peculiarly captivating grin ' of the man whose only ...
... looked like other ticket- of - leave men . The sins of the fathers were coming between him and that baronetcy which he coveted . In self - defence he began to wear on his face that ' peculiarly captivating grin ' of the man whose only ...
Page 183
... looked beyond worldly prosperity . They spent their lives as did one of William Pederick's daughters , waiting for the home call ' and that meeting with their ' loved ones again in a far better world ' , knowing that while they waited ...
... looked beyond worldly prosperity . They spent their lives as did one of William Pederick's daughters , waiting for the home call ' and that meeting with their ' loved ones again in a far better world ' , knowing that while they waited ...
Page 345
... looked as though they wanted the men to take some notice of them , and perhaps fondle them . Someone would produce a concertina , or a mouth - organ , or any ' blower ' that made music , and a man with a cockney voice would sing ...
... looked as though they wanted the men to take some notice of them , and perhaps fondle them . Someone would produce a concertina , or a mouth - organ , or any ' blower ' that made music , and a man with a cockney voice would sing ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
Copyright | |
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