A History of Australia, Volume 4This fourth volume continues the story [of the history of Australia] from the discovery of gold in February 1851 to the centenary of the coming of European civilization to Australia on January 26 1888. Its vital theme concerns the debate in Australian about the life of man without God; and the impending breakdown of bourgeois society, succeeded by an age of ruins. |
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... Henry Parkes charged Wentworth with presenting a ' wretched patch work of political absurdities ' , whose tendencies were all oligarchical , a constitution ' more atrocious than ridiculous ' , ' mummery ' with which to ' befool the old ...
... Henry Parkes charged Wentworth with presenting a ' wretched patch work of political absurdities ' , whose tendencies were all oligarchical , a constitution ' more atrocious than ridiculous ' , ' mummery ' with which to ' befool the old ...
Page 374
... Parkes became an honoured guest in the ancestral house of the family which had destroyed his father . He began to ... Henry Parkes , K.C.M.G. , by bouncing the cheque he had signed to buy affection and admiration . The man of ' virile ...
... Parkes became an honoured guest in the ancestral house of the family which had destroyed his father . He began to ... Henry Parkes , K.C.M.G. , by bouncing the cheque he had signed to buy affection and admiration . The man of ' virile ...
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... Henry Kendall his attacks on him and helped to lift him out of the gutter of ... Parkes had reached that stage in life when his rhetoric about the future ... Parkes . Every man of prominence in all the colonies had played the role of both ...
... Henry Kendall his attacks on him and helped to lift him out of the gutter of ... Parkes had reached that stage in life when his rhetoric about the future ... Parkes . Every man of prominence in all the colonies had played the role of both ...
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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