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 172
... took everything in their stride , put up with the bashings from their menfolk , collected them when they were lying dead drunk outside some rum shanty and drove them back to the selection in a jinker or buggy . A wife knew full well ...
... took everything in their stride , put up with the bashings from their menfolk , collected them when they were lying dead drunk outside some rum shanty and drove them back to the selection in a jinker or buggy . A wife knew full well ...
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... took her to the police station , hoping the sergeant would be moved with compassion for her and by what was likely to happen to her if she was cast again on the world to pursue her evil course unchecked and unrestrained . The sergeant took ...
... took her to the police station , hoping the sergeant would be moved with compassion for her and by what was likely to happen to her if she was cast again on the world to pursue her evil course unchecked and unrestrained . The sergeant took ...
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... took delight in the poetry of Burns or were discovering the work of Walt Whitman , Berry read the poetry of Alexander Pope and the verse plays of Robert Browning . At a time , too , when men such as Marcus Clarke were playing with ideas ...
... took delight in the poetry of Burns or were discovering the work of Walt Whitman , Berry read the poetry of Alexander Pope and the verse plays of Robert Browning . At a time , too , when men such as Marcus Clarke were playing with ideas ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
Copyright | |
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