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 57
... once sold clothes to fools , And asked a tidy figure , And shoved off lots of useless tools To every new chum digger . What lots of ships once crossed the foam , With gals a tidy portion , But the style in which they now write home , I ...
... once sold clothes to fools , And asked a tidy figure , And shoved off lots of useless tools To every new chum digger . What lots of ships once crossed the foam , With gals a tidy portion , But the style in which they now write home , I ...
Page 86
... once worked on as a builder's labourer , or the lord of the drawing - room in which he had once worked as a plasterer . In preparation for that rise , he had a ' gothic ' or ' classic ' villa , like his master's but with fewer rooms and ...
... once worked on as a builder's labourer , or the lord of the drawing - room in which he had once worked as a plasterer . In preparation for that rise , he had a ' gothic ' or ' classic ' villa , like his master's but with fewer rooms and ...
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... Once again neither side was prepared to act in the spirit of concession and compromise which , according to the secretary of state , was part of the English genius for avoiding those violent and bloody revo- lutions which disgraced ...
... Once again neither side was prepared to act in the spirit of concession and compromise which , according to the secretary of state , was part of the English genius for avoiding those violent and bloody revo- lutions which disgraced ...
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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