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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Page 40
It was to give power to coarse and commonplace people , to rich and ignorant
parvenus who might have won their property qualification out of the profits of a
Collingwood pigsty , or selling sly - grog or , worse still , having the good fortune
to be ...
It was to give power to coarse and commonplace people , to rich and ignorant
parvenus who might have won their property qualification out of the profits of a
Collingwood pigsty , or selling sly - grog or , worse still , having the good fortune
to be ...
Page 279
After calling on Almighty God to bless his decision , he told them all that good
Catholics could not with safe conscience make use of the education the State
saw fit to give them . It was , he said , just the same as if they had entered into an
...
After calling on Almighty God to bless his decision , he told them all that good
Catholics could not with safe conscience make use of the education the State
saw fit to give them . It was , he said , just the same as if they had entered into an
...
Page 299
Acting on the principle of John Wesley that the servants of Christ should not let
the Devil have all the good tunes , the Reverend Charles Clark encouraged his
congregation to close their eyes and give themselves up to the sensual luxury of
...
Acting on the principle of John Wesley that the servants of Christ should not let
the Devil have all the good tunes , the Reverend Charles Clark encouraged his
congregation to close their eyes and give themselves up to the sensual luxury of
...
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
Copyright | |
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