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His step had become faltering , as the dissipations of the earlier years wrought havoc to the flesh which encased the mighty spirit of William Charles Wentworth . In the colony at large he enjoyed the reputation of being the first ...
His step had become faltering , as the dissipations of the earlier years wrought havoc to the flesh which encased the mighty spirit of William Charles Wentworth . In the colony at large he enjoyed the reputation of being the first ...
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He had wanted every man in New South Wales to have the opportunity to become an owner of property . His failures in business on his own account , as an ivory turner , a newspaper proprietor and an owner of property , had left him ...
He had wanted every man in New South Wales to have the opportunity to become an owner of property . His failures in business on his own account , as an ivory turner , a newspaper proprietor and an owner of property , had left him ...
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Like Harpur , whom he greatly admired , he believed the Australian aborigines had become wilder creatures than most other human beings because of the surrounding savageness . Like Clarke , he believed the weird scribblings of nature in ...
Like Harpur , whom he greatly admired , he believed the Australian aborigines had become wilder creatures than most other human beings because of the surrounding savageness . Like Clarke , he believed the weird scribblings of nature in ...
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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