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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Charles Manning Hope Clark. passing show , and his brother Dr Robert Hope on Lynburn Station were spending some of the money they had made out of their wool on bluestone mansions , verandahs with iron - lace decoration , croquet lawns ...
Charles Manning Hope Clark. passing show , and his brother Dr Robert Hope on Lynburn Station were spending some of the money they had made out of their wool on bluestone mansions , verandahs with iron - lace decoration , croquet lawns ...
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... hope that they would see again those who were near and dear to them . In July 1857 a baker from Snake Valley near Beechworth had these words cut into the stone memorial he erected in memory of his two - year - old son : Sleep on dear ...
... hope that they would see again those who were near and dear to them . In July 1857 a baker from Snake Valley near Beechworth had these words cut into the stone memorial he erected in memory of his two - year - old son : Sleep on dear ...
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... hope ' , the ' blessed horizon for a larger faith ' : On thy awful brow Is Deity ; and in that voice of thine There is the great imperial utterance Of God for ever ; and thy feet are set Where evermore , through all the days and years ...
... hope ' , the ' blessed horizon for a larger faith ' : On thy awful brow Is Deity ; and in that voice of thine There is the great imperial utterance Of God for ever ; and thy feet are set Where evermore , through all the days and years ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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