A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888This 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 173
Their home life was ' unspeakably wretched ' , as a result of one of those bad
matches so common in the bush . After a violent and painful scene the boy , by
then known as Henry Lawson , slipped out in the dark and cried his eyes out
behind ...
Their home life was ' unspeakably wretched ' , as a result of one of those bad
matches so common in the bush . After a violent and painful scene the boy , by
then known as Henry Lawson , slipped out in the dark and cried his eyes out
behind ...
Page 347
Lawson had seen the plains of the western lands of New South Wales very much
as John Oxley , Thomas Mitchell and Charles Sturt had seen them , namely as '
the plains of desolation ' , which were probably unsuitable for all the purposes of
...
Lawson had seen the plains of the western lands of New South Wales very much
as John Oxley , Thomas Mitchell and Charles Sturt had seen them , namely as '
the plains of desolation ' , which were probably unsuitable for all the purposes of
...
Page 348
Lawson's eyes moistened at the sight of a giraffe of a man sending round the hat
at Bourke on behalf of some Sydney ... Lawson's eyes darkened on seeing the
face of Sweeney , because it forewarned him that a day would come when his ...
Lawson's eyes moistened at the sight of a giraffe of a man sending round the hat
at Bourke on behalf of some Sydney ... Lawson's eyes darkened on seeing the
face of Sweeney , because it forewarned him that a day would come when his ...
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO | 49 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888 Volume 4 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Jul 2011 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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