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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... nature a harsh and difficult man , and said by some to err on that side of severity which was first cousin to cruelty , he was not lacking in grandeur of vision . He shared the enthusiasm of his day that the Great Disposer had reserved ...
... nature a harsh and difficult man , and said by some to err on that side of severity which was first cousin to cruelty , he was not lacking in grandeur of vision . He shared the enthusiasm of his day that the Great Disposer had reserved ...
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... nature provided the grasses and the soil for a concentration of settlement , and a community of farmers in a countryside not unlike the country districts around Cork in Ireland or Dorchester in England . Agriculture flourished ; the ...
... nature provided the grasses and the soil for a concentration of settlement , and a community of farmers in a countryside not unlike the country districts around Cork in Ireland or Dorchester in England . Agriculture flourished ; the ...
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... nature here had perpetrated some mistake , or forms and shapes that everywhere else had been supplanted by more viable species had survived here . They were not alarmed that nature in New Holland had been left behind other parts of the ...
... nature here had perpetrated some mistake , or forms and shapes that everywhere else had been supplanted by more viable species had survived here . They were not alarmed that nature in New Holland had been left behind other parts of the ...
Contents
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 17 |
A BRITISH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 73 |
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