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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Page 91
This approval of the respectable far outweighed any disappointment he had
experienced from the attempts of infatuated incendiaries to assail his character .
28 Darling had the mind of the server . When Murray wrote to him on the evils of
the ...
This approval of the respectable far outweighed any disappointment he had
experienced from the attempts of infatuated incendiaries to assail his character .
28 Darling had the mind of the server . When Murray wrote to him on the evils of
the ...
Page 129
R. L. Murray had been tamed , not , alas , by any perception of his egregious folly
in his early days , but by taking up a courtship with Eleanor Dixon , the daughter
of a respectable settler at Ralph's Bay . That soldier of God , and worthy foe of ...
R. L. Murray had been tamed , not , alas , by any perception of his egregious folly
in his early days , but by taking up a courtship with Eleanor Dixon , the daughter
of a respectable settler at Ralph's Bay . That soldier of God , and worthy foe of ...
Page 244
In this part of the world , they wrote , a Tory signified a respectable person who
had immigrated to this colony and brought with him virtuous principles : he
abominated convict principles , and even looked with suspicion on any man who
had ...
In this part of the world , they wrote , a Tory signified a respectable person who
had immigrated to this colony and brought with him virtuous principles : he
abominated convict principles , and even looked with suspicion on any man who
had ...
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Contents
DARKNESS | 1 |
THE SETTING IN NEW SOUTH WALES | 17 |
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE SON | 41 |
Copyright | |
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