A History of Australia: The people make laws, 1888-1915The late Manning Clark aims to bring to attention the foibles and strengths in every person, traits forced to the fore in the hardship and trauma that occured during the establishment and develpment of white settlement in Australia. Clark sets out to use the tragedies and successes of national heroes such as explorerers and generals, and those of the average person such as soldiers at Gallipoli and farmer's wives, to create a memorable tableau. |
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... human life would be like after the revolution . His role was to supply the memorable words . But on what that world would be , like one of his own characters , he too ' hadn't any opinions , hadn't any ideas ' . " Up in Brisbane on 19 ...
... human life would be like after the revolution . His role was to supply the memorable words . But on what that world would be , like one of his own characters , he too ' hadn't any opinions , hadn't any ideas ' . " Up in Brisbane on 19 ...
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... humanity to higher levels of being , had been perverted by its owners into a means of pandering to the follies and passions of human beings . The attraction of the sexes for each other was portrayed as the source of human happiness ...
... humanity to higher levels of being , had been perverted by its owners into a means of pandering to the follies and passions of human beings . The attraction of the sexes for each other was portrayed as the source of human happiness ...
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... human existence . He talked of heaven : he urinated in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in one of his many drunken rages . In the same movement there were men and women who sent their children to a socialist Sunday School ...
... human existence . He talked of heaven : he urinated in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in one of his many drunken rages . In the same movement there were men and women who sent their children to a socialist Sunday School ...
Contents
A TIME OF TUMULT | 91 |
THE TABLETS OF THE | 201 |
EMBOURGEOISEMENT | 251 |
Copyright | |
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