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... Nature had played a trick on him . He wanted to be number one , to be first rather than last — in the classroom , the examination room , the Students ' Representative Council , the Melbourne Uni- versity Magazine , and in his chosen ...
... Nature had played a trick on him . He wanted to be number one , to be first rather than last — in the classroom , the examination room , the Students ' Representative Council , the Melbourne Uni- versity Magazine , and in his chosen ...
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... Nature was all- powerful . When a parson offered words of Christian hope to the wife of a man crushed under a tree , she did not take the words in a spirit of meekness : ' Blast ' im ! If that's ' is way of doing things ... makin ...
... Nature was all- powerful . When a parson offered words of Christian hope to the wife of a man crushed under a tree , she did not take the words in a spirit of meekness : ' Blast ' im ! If that's ' is way of doing things ... makin ...
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... Nature had ' made a fair creature ' , a man of talent , an Australian version of the Renaissance man , a man with a fine brain who also excelled in athletics . But Fortune , or some flaw in his clay , has decreed that even he must ...
... Nature had ' made a fair creature ' , a man of talent , an Australian version of the Renaissance man , a man with a fine brain who also excelled in athletics . But Fortune , or some flaw in his clay , has decreed that even he must ...
Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
Copyright | |
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