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The idea of a terra australis was as old as Pythagoras , and accepted by Greek
and Roman writers who lent the ... for their ideas on the unknown parts of the
world ; Augustine had dismissed the idea of an unknown southern continent by ...
The idea of a terra australis was as old as Pythagoras , and accepted by Greek
and Roman writers who lent the ... for their ideas on the unknown parts of the
world ; Augustine had dismissed the idea of an unknown southern continent by ...
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They influenced the art , the social organization , the religion , and above all , the
idea of the past created by the aborigine on the north coast , planting in his mind
the idea of a golden age for his people before the coming of the white man .
They influenced the art , the social organization , the religion , and above all , the
idea of the past created by the aborigine on the north coast , planting in his mind
the idea of a golden age for his people before the coming of the white man .
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To imprint this idea more firmly on their minds , and render the sensation still
more poignant , that evening they spoke a ship from London.55 To some this was
an attractive challenge : this leaving behind civilization , this task of exploring a ...
To imprint this idea more firmly on their minds , and render the sensation still
more poignant , that evening they spoke a ship from London.55 To some this was
an attractive challenge : this leaving behind civilization , this task of exploring a ...
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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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