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... doubt but that they mirrored faith- fully the social outlook of those who sang them . A London Ragged School master wrote in 1851 : ยท [ The poor ] have a literature of their own , though they seldom read , and . . . that literature ...
... doubt but that they mirrored faith- fully the social outlook of those who sang them . A London Ragged School master wrote in 1851 : ยท [ The poor ] have a literature of their own , though they seldom read , and . . . that literature ...
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... doubt It was time to make a shift with leprosy about . So I saddled up my horses and whistled to my dog , And I left that scabby station at the old jig - jog.55 Next to the Chinese , the foreign diggers who made most im- pression on ...
... doubt It was time to make a shift with leprosy about . So I saddled up my horses and whistled to my dog , And I left that scabby station at the old jig - jog.55 Next to the Chinese , the foreign diggers who made most im- pression on ...
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... doubt that most bushmen did recognize and respect real worth , in squatters as in other men , but there is even less doubt that they were not wont to express their feelings in such self - consciously priggish terms as the above . Even ...
... doubt that most bushmen did recognize and respect real worth , in squatters as in other men , but there is even less doubt that they were not wont to express their feelings in such self - consciously priggish terms as the above . Even ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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A. B. Paterson Aborigines American attitude Australian national ballads become Ben Hall Britain British Bulletin bullock-drivers bush-workers bushman bushrangers cabbage-tree hat cattle chum collectivist colonists colony contemporary criminals Currency Lads Diemen's Land diggers diggings districts Donahoo early economic emancipists Emigrant England English ethos fact feeling free immigrants frontier Furphy Gold Rush goldfields Harris History influence interior Irish Jack John labour less Library of Victoria living London masters mates mateship Melbourne middle-class Mundy native native-born Ned Kelly never nineteenth century noble frontiersman noble savage nomad tribe Norfolk Island old hands outback outlook pastoral workers perhaps period Plains police political popular population prisoners Queensland sentiment Settlers and Convicts shearers shearing sheep shepherd social society South Wales squatters stanza station swagman Sydney tended tradition tralia Transportation Turner typical up-country Van Diemen's Land Victoria W. C. Wentworth working-class writes wrote