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Page 155
In such a society, it was said, men became captious, discontented, and sullen,
and so willingly put an ear to the idle tales of scandal current in Sydney and
Hobart Town about every person. In those colonies slanderous tongues
envenomed ...
In such a society, it was said, men became captious, discontented, and sullen,
and so willingly put an ear to the idle tales of scandal current in Sydney and
Hobart Town about every person. In those colonies slanderous tongues
envenomed ...
Page 156
The class of person that had been born in the colony, he wrote, afforded a
remarkable exception to the moral and physical character of their parents. They
were generally tall in person, and slender in their limbs, of fair complexion and
small ...
The class of person that had been born in the colony, he wrote, afforded a
remarkable exception to the moral and physical character of their parents. They
were generally tall in person, and slender in their limbs, of fair complexion and
small ...
Page 329
If the penalty of transportation was taken away from simple larceny, they could
diminish by at least one-half the total number of persons sentenced to
transportation, which would be a good thing because, in his view of the subject,
much of the ...
If the penalty of transportation was taken away from simple larceny, they could
diminish by at least one-half the total number of persons sentenced to
transportation, which would be a good thing because, in his view of the subject,
much of the ...
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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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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 2 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 18 Feb 2009 |
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