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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Page 147
Like his illustrious predecessors he had that private ache in the heart driving him
to seek glory . Sturt had been unhappy because he could not find the means to
act up to the impulse of his heart to impress his wife so that he might win just one
...
Like his illustrious predecessors he had that private ache in the heart driving him
to seek glory . Sturt had been unhappy because he could not find the means to
act up to the impulse of his heart to impress his wife so that he might win just one
...
Page 159
Born near Nottingham in 1830 , he was a man who carried in his heart those
marvellous parables of the Galilean in the halcyon , radiant years before the
disastrous confrontation with the heart - dimmers and mockers of Jerusalem . He
bore in ...
Born near Nottingham in 1830 , he was a man who carried in his heart those
marvellous parables of the Galilean in the halcyon , radiant years before the
disastrous confrontation with the heart - dimmers and mockers of Jerusalem . He
bore in ...
Page 308
There the trainer of horses and bohemian of the heart gave free rein to gloomy
introspection , trying to reconcile the agnosticism of the head with the religious
aspirations of the heart while gazing at that restless sea and those inhospitable ...
There the trainer of horses and bohemian of the heart gave free rein to gloomy
introspection , trying to reconcile the agnosticism of the head with the religious
aspirations of the heart while gazing at that restless sea and those inhospitable ...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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