A History of Australia, Volume 2The second volume in a history of Australia which aims to highlight the hardship and trauma that occurred there during the establishment and development of white settlement. This volume chronicles New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) between 1822 and 1838. |
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Page 90
Darling, assuming rather rashly that Wentworth was also fanning such radical
flames with his own grotesque ideas on the government of men, wrote off to
London that all colonial radicals, such as Wentworth, were Americans at heart
who ...
Darling, assuming rather rashly that Wentworth was also fanning such radical
flames with his own grotesque ideas on the government of men, wrote off to
London that all colonial radicals, such as Wentworth, were Americans at heart
who ...
Page 127
The commissioners wrote of vast acres of land not being cultivated. They wrote of
the great men of the day reducing the small settlers to beggary, and driving them
off their land to Hobart Town where they lived a miserable existence, their ...
The commissioners wrote of vast acres of land not being cultivated. They wrote of
the great men of the day reducing the small settlers to beggary, and driving them
off their land to Hobart Town where they lived a miserable existence, their ...
Page 138
He wrote of greedy, rapacious lawyers: he wrote of the idle vapouring for which
pert braggarts, idle coxcombs and empty-headed drivellers were ever
distinguished. He wrote salaciously of women entering the critical age when an
extra ...
He wrote of greedy, rapacious lawyers: he wrote of the idle vapouring for which
pert braggarts, idle coxcombs and empty-headed drivellers were ever
distinguished. He wrote salaciously of women entering the critical age when an
extra ...
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Contents
A R K N | 17 |
T H E R ETURN OF THE NATIVE SON | 41 |
T H E N ATI W E SON OF FE N DS GROSS LY | 61 |
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