A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888This 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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... Smyth asked his God to have pity on all men and forgive them for their folly .
The Reverend Frank Downing , the Presbyterian chaplain , a sound Calvinist and
an upright man who feared God and eschewed evil , wondered how fallen man ...
... Smyth asked his God to have pity on all men and forgive them for their folly .
The Reverend Frank Downing , the Presbyterian chaplain , a sound Calvinist and
an upright man who feared God and eschewed evil , wondered how fallen man ...
Page 214
When the missionary asked one of those comely girls to rejoin the mission ,
where she could continue to lead that new life ... He knew too that when the
aborigines prayed they took literally Christ ' s promise that whatever they asked
for in His ...
When the missionary asked one of those comely girls to rejoin the mission ,
where she could continue to lead that new life ... He knew too that when the
aborigines prayed they took literally Christ ' s promise that whatever they asked
for in His ...
Page 406
They could glibly recite the names of the English sovereigns from William the
Conqueror to Victoria , name the rivers , mountains and towns of Europe , but
asked where Port Phillip was , or what the events in the Black War in Tasmania
were ...
They could glibly recite the names of the English sovereigns from William the
Conqueror to Victoria , name the rivers , mountains and towns of Europe , but
asked where Port Phillip was , or what the events in the Black War in Tasmania
were ...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888 Volume 4 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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