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... India by fifteen thousand miles of sea , and possessing in India only a few acres for purposes of commerce , would , in less than a hundred years , spread its empire from Cape Comorin to the eternal snow of the Himalayas ; would compel ...
... India by fifteen thousand miles of sea , and possessing in India only a few acres for purposes of commerce , would , in less than a hundred years , spread its empire from Cape Comorin to the eternal snow of the Himalayas ; would compel ...
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... India , intimately acquainted as he was with Indian politics and with the Indian character , and adored as he was by his Indian soldiery , he never learned to express himself with facility in any Indian language . He is said indeed to ...
... India , intimately acquainted as he was with Indian politics and with the Indian character , and adored as he was by his Indian soldiery , he never learned to express himself with facility in any Indian language . He is said indeed to ...
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... India . His education had been neglected ; his extraction was humble . His father had been a petty officer of revenue ; his grandfather a wandering dervise . But though thus meanly descended , though ignorant even of the alphabet , the ...
... India . His education had been neglected ; his extraction was humble . His father had been a petty officer of revenue ; his grandfather a wandering dervise . But though thus meanly descended , though ignorant even of the alphabet , the ...
Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
Introduction by Douglas Jerrold | 18 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 405 |
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