A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization 1824-1851. IIIThe third volume of Manning Clark's distinguished history takes the story of Australia to the momentous discovery of gold and the separation of Victoria from New South Wales. Up to this point the story is one of destruction as well as construction: the destruction of the Aborigines and the construction of an essentially English bourgeois society and the taming of an alien and seemingly sterile land along the coastal country. |
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Page 76
They were more than reassured when Grey introduced measures to reduce
government expenditure. Positions were retrenched, salaries were slashed to
bridge the gap between a revenue of £30000 and an annual expenditure of £
94000.
They were more than reassured when Grey introduced measures to reduce
government expenditure. Positions were retrenched, salaries were slashed to
bridge the gap between a revenue of £30000 and an annual expenditure of £
94000.
Page 80
The Total Abstinence Society went on holding their tea meetings at which
penitent drunks testified in the presence of their wives. Wesleyan itinerant
preachers went on proving that souls saved for Christ made good civil subjects.
80 Grey, too, ...
The Total Abstinence Society went on holding their tea meetings at which
penitent drunks testified in the presence of their wives. Wesleyan itinerant
preachers went on proving that souls saved for Christ made good civil subjects.
80 Grey, too, ...
Page 437
Those scenes of horror such as happened in Paris would never occur in South
Australia, because their belief in God stood between them and the law of the
jungle.40 Grey also had before him an expression of loyalty to Her Most Excellent
...
Those scenes of horror such as happened in Paris would never occur in South
Australia, because their belief in God stood between them and the law of the
jungle.40 Grey also had before him an expression of loyalty to Her Most Excellent
...
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Contents
another province for britains gentry | 19 |
Charles Harpur and Jackey Jackey frontispiece | 32 |
a british province with a laudable purpose | 42 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization 1824-1851. III Volume 3 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 3 of A History of Australia: The Beginning of an Australian Civilization. 1824-1851. III, Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 052284054X, 9780522840544 |
| Length | 491 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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