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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... drunkenness against Douglass , the deposition of Bradley , and the use of flogging by Douglass to extract confessions from convicts , before the Governor , Sir Thomas Brisbane , the Chief Justice , Francis Forbes , and the Archdeacon ...
... drunkenness against Douglass , the deposition of Bradley , and the use of flogging by Douglass to extract confessions from convicts , before the Governor , Sir Thomas Brisbane , the Chief Justice , Francis Forbes , and the Archdeacon ...
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... drunkenness . There was , as Arthur saw it , far more point in a cure for drunkenness than all this talk about liberty of the press and the birthrights of Englishmen . Every week far too many were fined or otherwise punished for being ...
... drunkenness . There was , as Arthur saw it , far more point in a cure for drunkenness than all this talk about liberty of the press and the birthrights of Englishmen . Every week far too many were fined or otherwise punished for being ...
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... drunkenness , telling them they might with profit to themselves regard the door of a public house , through which many of them had come into their present situation , as the entrance to a gaol . He reminded them that he and all those in ...
... drunkenness , telling them they might with profit to themselves regard the door of a public house , through which many of them had come into their present situation , as the entrance to a gaol . He reminded them that he and all those in ...
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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