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 259
... Irish Catholics the end justified the means , and that anything was lawful if it helped to get rid of the oppressor . The Sydney Morning Herald , deploring the Irish tendency to look on traitors as patriots , and murderers as martyrs ...
... Irish Catholics the end justified the means , and that anything was lawful if it helped to get rid of the oppressor . The Sydney Morning Herald , deploring the Irish tendency to look on traitors as patriots , and murderers as martyrs ...
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... Irish Catholics , mindful of the role of the priests in comforting and relieving the victims of that ' ancient wrong ' in Mother Ireland , and taught by those priests to attribute some magical meaning to the preservation of their Holy ...
... Irish Catholics , mindful of the role of the priests in comforting and relieving the victims of that ' ancient wrong ' in Mother Ireland , and taught by those priests to attribute some magical meaning to the preservation of their Holy ...
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... Irish Protestant towards the ' low Irish mob ' , lectured her on the duty of men to protect civilization against ' lawless persons ' . Ned , who had claimed to be miles away at the time , said he thought of him as one of those ...
... Irish Protestant towards the ' low Irish mob ' , lectured her on the duty of men to protect civilization against ' lawless persons ' . Ned , who had claimed to be miles away at the time , said he thought of him as one of those ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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