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Page 48
... English fellows , he tended to glory insultingly in his new - found confidence was a measure of his previous degradation . As John Sidney wrote in his Voice from the Far Interior ( 1847 ) : The sweepings of English workhouses and Irish ...
... English fellows , he tended to glory insultingly in his new - found confidence was a measure of his previous degradation . As John Sidney wrote in his Voice from the Far Interior ( 1847 ) : The sweepings of English workhouses and Irish ...
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... English immigrants , other powerful factors tended to attach them also more quickly and closely to that of their adopted country . The brute fact that their standard of living at home was so much lower than that of the English must have ...
... English immigrants , other powerful factors tended to attach them also more quickly and closely to that of their adopted country . The brute fact that their standard of living at home was so much lower than that of the English must have ...
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... English literary convention . Their attitude to the interior , ' Australia proper ' , was the very opposite of that which had long been held by the working people who lived there . Instead of glorying in its dry distances , as did the ...
... English literary convention . Their attitude to the interior , ' Australia proper ' , was the very opposite of that which had long been held by the working people who lived there . Instead of glorying in its dry distances , as did the ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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