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... practical errors for want of such lights as ethnology affords . I will give a striking and recent instance . The Chief Secretary of the Government , who is likewise one of the most able and accomplished men in India , in speaking of the ...
... practical errors for want of such lights as ethnology affords . I will give a striking and recent instance . The Chief Secretary of the Government , who is likewise one of the most able and accomplished men in India , in speaking of the ...
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... practical results of great value have been reached by a much less superfine process than that insisted on ; and that if we suppose some thousands of facts , so simple in their nature as the mere vocables of a language are , collected ...
... practical results of great value have been reached by a much less superfine process than that insisted on ; and that if we suppose some thousands of facts , so simple in their nature as the mere vocables of a language are , collected ...
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... practical administra- tion , Mr. Hodgson addressed a series of questions to several individuals who were judged most capable of replying to them in a full and satisfactory manner . Copies of these series of interrogatories , with their ...
... practical administra- tion , Mr. Hodgson addressed a series of questions to several individuals who were judged most capable of replying to them in a full and satisfactory manner . Copies of these series of interrogatories , with their ...
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... practical , as their whole tenets are to speculative , Hindúism . In very truth , the genius of Polytheism , everywhere accom- modating , is peculiarly so to its professors and their like in Népál . Here , religious opinions are utterly ...
... practical , as their whole tenets are to speculative , Hindúism . In very truth , the genius of Polytheism , everywhere accom- modating , is peculiarly so to its professors and their like in Népál . Here , religious opinions are utterly ...
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... whom the genius of the one and the benevolence of the other command my unfeigned homage . Mr. Macaulay's Minute is but a second edition of Mr. Trevelyan's Treatise . of another , and that the recent practical measures of.
... whom the genius of the one and the benevolence of the other command my unfeigned homage . Mr. Macaulay's Minute is but a second edition of Mr. Trevelyan's Treatise . of another , and that the recent practical measures of.
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