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Notes:Editor's note: From an unpublished satire by Charles Harpur
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The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator
18 August
1849
Z1603235
1849
newspaper issue
1849
pg.
6
Note:
Includes lengthy footnote:
'It has always been a puzzle to really large-minded, full-hearted men, by what outre and antipodean combination of circumstances this man could ever have been lifted into prime political eminence.
'As an orator, he is a mere blearer. As a statesman, he is crudity personified. As a lawyer, he is but so so; consistency he has none : and for patriotism - but listen to Doll Tearsheets' dissertation on the words Captain and occupy. "Captain! thou abominable ... '
The footnote is incomplete on the copy indexed.
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The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator
18 August
1849
Z1603235
1849
newspaper issue
1849
pg.
6
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The Argus
10 September
1849
Z1857076
1849
newspaper issue
1849
pg.
4
Note: Footnote not included.
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The Argus
10 September
1849
Z1857076
1849
newspaper issue
1849
pg.
4
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