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... cities , was singing , with the richest licence of droll intonation , a composition of which we retain only the concluding verses , but which might be not inaptly entitled " The Family Man ' - a phrase signifying , in the ' flash ...
... cities , was singing , with the richest licence of droll intonation , a composition of which we retain only the concluding verses , but which might be not inaptly entitled " The Family Man ' - a phrase signifying , in the ' flash ...
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Russel Braddock Ward. London and other large British cities . The whole passage illus- trates strikingly not only the pastoral workers ' spirit of easy - come , easy - go egalitarianism and mateship , but also its derivation from convict ...
Russel Braddock Ward. London and other large British cities . The whole passage illus- trates strikingly not only the pastoral workers ' spirit of easy - come , easy - go egalitarianism and mateship , but also its derivation from convict ...
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... cities , for it was inevitable that the congenitally vagabond and adven- turous pastoral workers should have been among the first diggers to arrive at every new field . By the time later immigrants came , their predecessors had already ...
... cities , for it was inevitable that the congenitally vagabond and adven- turous pastoral workers should have been among the first diggers to arrive at every new field . By the time later immigrants came , their predecessors had already ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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