Calcutta Review, Volume 9University of Calcutta, 1848 |
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Page 9
... matter how much miasma may be exhaled from the decaying vegetation , how much disease may lurk in that fair but deceitful mass of green foliage , how many reptiles and venomous snakes may be concealed in the unwholesome shades which ...
... matter how much miasma may be exhaled from the decaying vegetation , how much disease may lurk in that fair but deceitful mass of green foliage , how many reptiles and venomous snakes may be concealed in the unwholesome shades which ...
Page 12
... matter is settled , says , to admit the waters with detriment to the country , and the other to let them out with advantage . But no matter , in the end the stream and the rush of waters have had their effect : an impulse has been given ...
... matter is settled , says , to admit the waters with detriment to the country , and the other to let them out with advantage . But no matter , in the end the stream and the rush of waters have had their effect : an impulse has been given ...
Page 22
... matters are mainly settled in the courts of their neighbouring districts . On the whole then it may be assumed that ten or at most eleven lakhs is a fair average of land revenue for districts fully as large as the county of Devon , and ...
... matters are mainly settled in the courts of their neighbouring districts . On the whole then it may be assumed that ten or at most eleven lakhs is a fair average of land revenue for districts fully as large as the county of Devon , and ...
Page 26
... matter . Every now and then the overstraining breaks the bow , and oppressed poverty has recourse to the protection of the law , or next to the advocacy of some powerful rival of the enemy , or lastly to one of those frantic outbreaks ...
... matter . Every now and then the overstraining breaks the bow , and oppressed poverty has recourse to the protection of the law , or next to the advocacy of some powerful rival of the enemy , or lastly to one of those frantic outbreaks ...
Page 27
... matter . We have rarely if ever heard of a Zemindar contentedly living on his own estate , and making a trial of per- sonal superintendance , and temperate but firm authority in the exaction of his dues . If the Zemindari is let out in ...
... matter . We have rarely if ever heard of a Zemindar contentedly living on his own estate , and making a trial of per- sonal superintendance , and temperate but firm authority in the exaction of his dues . If the Zemindari is let out in ...
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