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It was more natural , he believed , to be taught to know all those productions of
nature in preference to Greek and Latin . It remained the ruling passion of his life ,
and lingered long after the fires of love and ambition had died in his breast .
It was more natural , he believed , to be taught to know all those productions of
nature in preference to Greek and Latin . It remained the ruling passion of his life ,
and lingered long after the fires of love and ambition had died in his breast .
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97 They were not concerned , however , with debating or inquiring into the
meaning of life : they knew it . They believed life to be a preparation for eternity .
Paradoxically , their daily interests only extended from the trivial , or from crop
news ...
97 They were not concerned , however , with debating or inquiring into the
meaning of life : they knew it . They believed life to be a preparation for eternity .
Paradoxically , their daily interests only extended from the trivial , or from crop
news ...
Page 370
Bigge believed that a more judicious and more liberal distribution would have
been preferable to the government monopolizing the useful convicts , subsisting
them at government expense and forcing upon the settlers a mass of useless and
...
Bigge believed that a more judicious and more liberal distribution would have
been preferable to the government monopolizing the useful convicts , subsisting
them at government expense and forcing upon the settlers a mass of useless and
...
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Contents
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE PROTESTANTS | 21 |
THE SONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 42 |
THE CHOICE OF BOTANY BAY | 59 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Australia: From the earliest times to the age of Macquarie Volume 1 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 8 Apr 2009 |
| ISBN | 052284054X, 9780522840544 |
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