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I would propose at once to abolish this restriction ; but unfortunately our roads are not adapted either in width or solidity to car- riage traffic . To widen the principal roads , and to make them pucka throughout , will , in the first ...
I would propose at once to abolish this restriction ; but unfortunately our roads are not adapted either in width or solidity to car- riage traffic . To widen the principal roads , and to make them pucka throughout , will , in the first ...
Page vi
It may be owing to the greater number of Patna chests in the market , or to the impossibility of reconciling the Chinese to it after their confidence in it has been once shaken by the disaster which occurred several years ago .
It may be owing to the greater number of Patna chests in the market , or to the impossibility of reconciling the Chinese to it after their confidence in it has been once shaken by the disaster which occurred several years ago .
Page xvii
Ir is not often that the reviewer has to do with an author , who is at once the daughter of a King , the sister of an Earl , the wife of a Viscount , and the cousin of our most gracious Queen - God bless her ! Lady Falkland is all this ...
Ir is not often that the reviewer has to do with an author , who is at once the daughter of a King , the sister of an Earl , the wife of a Viscount , and the cousin of our most gracious Queen - God bless her ! Lady Falkland is all this ...
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I happened once to mention to him a great event which had lately taken place in Europe . He stared at me , and said , " I know nothing at all about it . " " Not discouraged , I started another topic connected with public affairs in Eng- ...
I happened once to mention to him a great event which had lately taken place in Europe . He stared at me , and said , " I know nothing at all about it . " " Not discouraged , I started another topic connected with public affairs in Eng- ...
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Nine men out of ten will reply at once that it is a language no longer spoken by the people as their mother tongue . This definition at once suggests to six men at least out of ten , the idea of a language , the cultivation of which ...
Nine men out of ten will reply at once that it is a language no longer spoken by the people as their mother tongue . This definition at once suggests to six men at least out of ten , the idea of a language , the cultivation of which ...
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Page 93 - When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me, Until I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood I their end.
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Page 156 - How best to help the slender store, How mend the dwellings, of the poor; How gain in life, as life advances, Valour and charity more and more.
Page xxiv - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
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Page 387 - He now repeats that declaration, and he emphatically proclaims that the government of India entertains no desire to interfere with their religion or caste, and that nothing has been, or will be done by the government to affect the free exercise of the observances of religion or caste by every class of the people. The government of India...
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| Title | the calcutta review |
| Author | the calcutta review |
| Published | 1857 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Jun 2007 |
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