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Page 80
... cities , was singing , with the richest licence of droll intonation , a composition of which we retain only the concluding verses , but which might be not inaptly entitled " The Family Man ' - a phrase signifying , in the ' flash ...
... cities , was singing , with the richest licence of droll intonation , a composition of which we retain only the concluding verses , but which might be not inaptly entitled " The Family Man ' - a phrase signifying , in the ' flash ...
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... cities . Vance Palmer's assessment of the situation at the time of the first con- vention to discuss Federation in 1891 is hardly an overstatement : There was an element of paradox in the situation . In the interior there was little ...
... cities . Vance Palmer's assessment of the situation at the time of the first con- vention to discuss Federation in 1891 is hardly an overstatement : There was an element of paradox in the situation . In the interior there was little ...
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... cities were just like home ' . The disappointment this circumstance caused to the romantically inclined is well brought out by John Henderson : I confess that , notwithstanding its vast extent and population ( considering that it was ...
... cities were just like home ' . The disappointment this circumstance caused to the romantically inclined is well brought out by John Henderson : I confess that , notwithstanding its vast extent and population ( considering that it was ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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