Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3Hurd and Houghton, 1874 |
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... regarded by other servants of the Company merely as the means of communicating with weavers and money - changers , his enlarged and accomplished mind sought in Asiatic learning for new forms of intellectual enjoyment , and for new views ...
... regarded by other servants of the Company merely as the means of communicating with weavers and money - changers , his enlarged and accomplished mind sought in Asiatic learning for new forms of intellectual enjoyment , and for new views ...
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... regarded as a corrupt and greedy politician . But , tried by the lower standard of Indian morality , he might be considered as a man of integrity and honour . His competitor was a Hindoo Brahmin whose name has , by a terrible and ...
... regarded as a corrupt and greedy politician . But , tried by the lower standard of Indian morality , he might be considered as a man of integrity and honour . His competitor was a Hindoo Brahmin whose name has , by a terrible and ...
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... regarded as the best of all sepoys at the cold steel ; and it was very recently remarked , by one who had enjoyed great opportunities of observation , that the only natives of India to whom the word " gentleman can with perfect ...
... regarded as the best of all sepoys at the cold steel ; and it was very recently remarked , by one who had enjoyed great opportunities of observation , that the only natives of India to whom the word " gentleman can with perfect ...
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... regarded the most defective parts of old insti- tutions with a respect amounting to pedantry , pleaded the cause of Old Sarum with fervour , and contemptu- ously told the capitalists of Manchester and Leeds that , if they wanted votes ...
... regarded the most defective parts of old insti- tutions with a respect amounting to pedantry , pleaded the cause of Old Sarum with fervour , and contemptu- ously told the capitalists of Manchester and Leeds that , if they wanted votes ...
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... regarded by them in much the same light in which the selling of an unsound horse , for a sound price , is regarded by a Yorkshire jockey . The Mussulmans alone appear to have seen with ex- ultation the fate of the powerful Hindoo , who ...
... regarded by them in much the same light in which the selling of an unsound horse , for a sound price , is regarded by a Yorkshire jockey . The Mussulmans alone appear to have seen with ex- ultation the fate of the powerful Hindoo , who ...
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