A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization, 1824-1851The third volume of Manning Clark's distinguished history takes the story of Australia to the momentous discovery of gold and the separation of Victoria from New South Wales. Up to this point the story is one of destruction as well as construction: the destruction of the Aborigines and the construction of an essentially English bourgeois society and the taming of an alien and seemingly sterile land along the coastal country. |
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Page 130
Afterwards the judges in Sydney, the Attorney-General and others in high places
suggested to Gipps that the joke had gone on long enough, and Gipps informed
Stanley in October 1842 that the Resident Judge was afflicted with an infirmity of
...
Afterwards the judges in Sydney, the Attorney-General and others in high places
suggested to Gipps that the joke had gone on long enough, and Gipps informed
Stanley in October 1842 that the Resident Judge was afflicted with an infirmity of
...
Page 301
Neither Gipps nor anyone else who rejoiced that Wentworth had met his match
noticed that nature had not been lavish with Lowe in gifts of the heart, but had
given him the constitution ... 88 Gipps to Stanley, 10 November 1843, H.R.A., I.
xxiii.
Neither Gipps nor anyone else who rejoiced that Wentworth had met his match
noticed that nature had not been lavish with Lowe in gifts of the heart, but had
given him the constitution ... 88 Gipps to Stanley, 10 November 1843, H.R.A., I.
xxiii.
Page 335
So, despite the vigorous opposition from Ben Boyd and the Pastoral Association,
Stanley gave his approval to the ... on to tell him that he (Gipps) would quit New
South Wales in possession of the approbation of the Queen, of the confidence of
...
So, despite the vigorous opposition from Ben Boyd and the Pastoral Association,
Stanley gave his approval to the ... on to tell him that he (Gipps) would quit New
South Wales in possession of the approbation of the Queen, of the confidence of
...
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Contents
Charles Harpur and Jackey Jackey frontispiece | 32 |
A BRIT1SH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
Edward John Eyre | 48 |
Copyright | |
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