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 139
... nature ' fell a - doating ' , and placed that fatal gap in the upper lip , and that cleft in the palate , which left him with a flaw in his appearance and an impediment in his speech . He covered the former with a luxuriant moustache ...
... nature ' fell a - doating ' , and placed that fatal gap in the upper lip , and that cleft in the palate , which left him with a flaw in his appearance and an impediment in his speech . He covered the former with a luxuriant moustache ...
Page 195
... nature had both cursed them and blessed them with a natural wall - the interior of Australia - over which no convict could escape . But in deference to the eastern alarms Her Majesty's govern- ment decided in 1867 to end the ...
... nature had both cursed them and blessed them with a natural wall - the interior of Australia - over which no convict could escape . But in deference to the eastern alarms Her Majesty's govern- ment decided in 1867 to end the ...
Page 315
... Natural Life in 1885 , in Dutch in 1886 , in New York in 1889 and in St Petersburg in 1903. It was also dramatized and ... nature were conducted upon certain first principles , which no amount of spiritual exercise such as knee - bending ...
... Natural Life in 1885 , in Dutch in 1886 , in New York in 1889 and in St Petersburg in 1903. It was also dramatized and ... nature were conducted upon certain first principles , which no amount of spiritual exercise such as knee - bending ...
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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