A History of Australia: New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1838The 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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... common decency during the proceedings in the Court , he was sentenced to three years in New- gate Gaol , after which he was to enter into a bond of £ 100 to be of good behaviour for life.9 The courts of criminal law were a stage ...
... common decency during the proceedings in the Court , he was sentenced to three years in New- gate Gaol , after which he was to enter into a bond of £ 100 to be of good behaviour for life.9 The courts of criminal law were a stage ...
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... common task buoyed by the hope that at long last the tide towards free institutions would soon be in full flood . They were not to know then that John Macarthur had already made his usual present of brandy to the governor , and Bourke ...
... common task buoyed by the hope that at long last the tide towards free institutions would soon be in full flood . They were not to know then that John Macarthur had already made his usual present of brandy to the governor , and Bourke ...
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... common rooms and drawing rooms of Oxford when he and Thomas Arnold and John Henry Newman were pondering how a man could best prepare for the life of the world to come . In his pamphlet Remarks on Transportation , published in London in ...
... common rooms and drawing rooms of Oxford when he and Thomas Arnold and John Henry Newman were pondering how a man could best prepare for the life of the world to come . In his pamphlet Remarks on Transportation , published in London in ...
Contents
THE SETTING IN NEW SOUTH WALES | 17 |
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE SON | 41 |
THE NATIVE SON OFFENDS GROSSLY | 61 |
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