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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that evil spirit left them, in fits of remorse and shame they turned to their God for
comfort and strength and swore they would try by His help not to sin again. Men
tormented by the gap between their passions and God's commands began to
send ...
that evil spirit left them, in fits of remorse and shame they turned to their God for
comfort and strength and swore they would try by His help not to sin again. Men
tormented by the gap between their passions and God's commands began to
send ...
Page 179
He then went on to urge the people to take care lest the evil of convictism be
replaced by a greater evil, for if the predominance of members of the Catholic
faith were established in Australia by assisted immigration, the toleration and
freedom ...
He then went on to urge the people to take care lest the evil of convictism be
replaced by a greater evil, for if the predominance of members of the Catholic
faith were established in Australia by assisted immigration, the toleration and
freedom ...
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Boyes gasped and made approving noises as she whispered to him story after
story of that man's evil. Believing the people behind him in the blow he had struck
at the overpowering influence of the Arthur faction, Sir John wrote to Lord Stanley
...
Boyes gasped and made approving noises as she whispered to him story after
story of that man's evil. Believing the people behind him in the blow he had struck
at the overpowering influence of the Arthur faction, Sir John wrote to Lord Stanley
...
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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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