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 325
... Kelly was a wild ass of a man , snarling , roaring and frothing like a ferocious beast when the tamer entered the cage . Mad Ireland had fashioned a man who consumed his vast gifts in an insensate war on property and on all the props of ...
... Kelly was a wild ass of a man , snarling , roaring and frothing like a ferocious beast when the tamer entered the cage . Mad Ireland had fashioned a man who consumed his vast gifts in an insensate war on property and on all the props of ...
Page 326
... Kelly hut at Greta with a warrant to arrest Ned's younger brother for horse - stealing . Ellen Kelly rushed at him with a shovel and said , ' You won't take Dan out of this to - night . ' A shot was fired , the bullet from which lodged ...
... Kelly hut at Greta with a warrant to arrest Ned's younger brother for horse - stealing . Ellen Kelly rushed at him with a shovel and said , ' You won't take Dan out of this to - night . ' A shot was fired , the bullet from which lodged ...
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... Kelly at Government House , solemnly told the pet- itioners for mercy that he must give duty priority over sympathy . Ned Kelly must die . 29 Ned walked to his death in the Old Melbourne Gaol on the morning of 11 November 1880. His ...
... Kelly at Government House , solemnly told the pet- itioners for mercy that he must give duty priority over sympathy . Ned Kelly must die . 29 Ned walked to his death in the Old Melbourne Gaol on the morning of 11 November 1880. His ...
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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