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In the beginning the system worked tolerably well despite outbreaks of gaol
distemper and lamentations by prison reformers about the effect on profanity and
morality of herding convicts together . These lamentations seduced the unwary to
...
In the beginning the system worked tolerably well despite outbreaks of gaol
distemper and lamentations by prison reformers about the effect on profanity and
morality of herding convicts together . These lamentations seduced the unwary to
...
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had already done more for the general amelioration of the colony , the
improvement of the manners , morals , industry and religion of its inhabitants ,
than his three predecessors during the several years they governed it.52 Up to
the end of ...
had already done more for the general amelioration of the colony , the
improvement of the manners , morals , industry and religion of its inhabitants ,
than his three predecessors during the several years they governed it.52 Up to
the end of ...
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two movements aiming at moral progress . The first was the British and ... They
believed too that such an improvement in morals was the promise of prosperity
as from the fountain of morality flowed the greatest worldly comforts . 84 The
second ...
two movements aiming at moral progress . The first was the British and ... They
believed too that such an improvement in morals was the promise of prosperity
as from the fountain of morality flowed the greatest worldly comforts . 84 The
second ...
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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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