A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization, 1824-1851The 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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Page 106
The face of Truganini took on that look of a woman determined to endure the
blows of fate without showing what was going on in her heart . That great
sadness which the painter Benjamin Duterrau caught so well began to appear on
...
The face of Truganini took on that look of a woman determined to endure the
blows of fate without showing what was going on in her heart . That great
sadness which the painter Benjamin Duterrau caught so well began to appear on
...
Page 109
Nature had endowed him with a woman's gentle face . When he came to man's
estate and put away childish things , he still wore on his face the innocence and
purity of a child , and behaved like a man who never saw all the evil in the world ...
Nature had endowed him with a woman's gentle face . When he came to man's
estate and put away childish things , he still wore on his face the innocence and
purity of a child , and behaved like a man who never saw all the evil in the world ...
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What Sir John and all those settlers who had waxed fat on the exploitation of
cheap convict labour had lost sight of , or possibly did not want to face , was that
official opinion in London was not prepared to go on doing what they wanted ...
What Sir John and all those settlers who had waxed fat on the exploitation of
cheap convict labour had lost sight of , or possibly did not want to face , was that
official opinion in London was not prepared to go on doing what they wanted ...
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Contents
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 17 |
A BRITISH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 62 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization, 1824-1851 Volume 3 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 |
| Authors | Charles Manning Hope Clark, Manning Clark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2011 |
| ISBN | 052284054X, 9780522840544 |
| Length | 491 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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