A History of Australia: The people make laws, 1888-1915Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 89
... looked forward to the time when in the progress of enlightenment the necessity for toil would be greatly reduced . But the State must not dictate to a man how he sold his labour . ' If that creature ' , he put it , ' endowed with divine ...
... looked forward to the time when in the progress of enlightenment the necessity for toil would be greatly reduced . But the State must not dictate to a man how he sold his labour . ' If that creature ' , he put it , ' endowed with divine ...
Page 143
... looked like a repetition of the ill - fated 1891 convention . It looked as though history were repeating itself ( a second time not as a farce after a fiasco but as an occasion for a yawn ) . Once again delegates were asked to say it ...
... looked like a repetition of the ill - fated 1891 convention . It looked as though history were repeating itself ( a second time not as a farce after a fiasco but as an occasion for a yawn ) . Once again delegates were asked to say it ...
Page 158
... looked with glistening eyes towards the bar . For all the eye could tell the ' top ' families were in no danger in Melbourne . But prophets were warning them that if they were to continue the giddy round of getting and spending , to ...
... looked with glistening eyes towards the bar . For all the eye could tell the ' top ' families were in no danger in Melbourne . But prophets were warning them that if they were to continue the giddy round of getting and spending , to ...
Contents
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 29 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 53 |
A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
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