A History of Australia: New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1838The late Manning Clark aims to bring to attention the foibles and strengths in every person, traits forced to the fore in the hardship and trauma that occured during the establishment and develpment of white settlement in Australia. Clark sets out to use the tragedies and successes of national heroes such as explorerers and generals, and those of the average person such as soldiers at Gallipoli and farmer's wives, to create a memorable tableau. |
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... benefit of the church , and by lower orders whose life was a mockery of that God who had made man , they knew , lower than the angels , but not as low as the beasts , were tempted to attribute the indifference to God to human ...
... benefit of the church , and by lower orders whose life was a mockery of that God who had made man , they knew , lower than the angels , but not as low as the beasts , were tempted to attribute the indifference to God to human ...
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... benefit of those ' boys who lived in the land ' rather than of their kinsmen in the United Kingdom petitioned the Sheriff to summon a public meeting . When the Sheriff refused , on the grounds that no officer of the government should ...
... benefit of those ' boys who lived in the land ' rather than of their kinsmen in the United Kingdom petitioned the Sheriff to summon a public meeting . When the Sheriff refused , on the grounds that no officer of the government should ...
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... benefit . He voluntarily divested himself of the prodigious influence arising from the assignment of penal labour , and enacted just and salutary laws for the amelioration of penal discipline . He was the first governor , who published ...
... benefit . He voluntarily divested himself of the prodigious influence arising from the assignment of penal labour , and enacted just and salutary laws for the amelioration of penal discipline . He was the first governor , who published ...
Contents
THE SETTING IN NEW SOUTH WALES | 17 |
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE SON | 41 |
THE NATIVE SON OFFENDS GROSSLY | 61 |
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