Calcutta Review, Volume 29University of Calcutta., 1857 |
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... residents in India , and which will afford many an hour of pleasant and instructive reading . It is written in a very lively tone , contains vivid des- criptions of scenes through which the writer passed , and exhibits that peculiar ...
... residents in India , and which will afford many an hour of pleasant and instructive reading . It is written in a very lively tone , contains vivid des- criptions of scenes through which the writer passed , and exhibits that peculiar ...
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... residents here are little given to sight - seeing . Men are anxious to make money , and be off to enjoy it in a more grateful clime , almost declining altogether the recreations and rational pleasures which they might find even in this ...
... residents here are little given to sight - seeing . Men are anxious to make money , and be off to enjoy it in a more grateful clime , almost declining altogether the recreations and rational pleasures which they might find even in this ...
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... residents or passing travellers . In India at least one fact is undeniable , that those laymen who know missions best , are their best supporters . But in the case of our author , no such enquiry was once made . He visited , he saw ...
... residents or passing travellers . In India at least one fact is undeniable , that those laymen who know missions best , are their best supporters . But in the case of our author , no such enquiry was once made . He visited , he saw ...
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... resident - to in- spire me with a powerful aversion to the Chinese race . Their touch is pollution , and , harsh as the opinion may seem , justice to our own race demands that they should not be allowed to settle on our soil . Science ...
... resident - to in- spire me with a powerful aversion to the Chinese race . Their touch is pollution , and , harsh as the opinion may seem , justice to our own race demands that they should not be allowed to settle on our soil . Science ...
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... resident in the country , and unacquainted with the language , but who based his conclusions on information and testimony within his reach , " and who applied principles gradually matured in England , to practical Indian questions of ...
... resident in the country , and unacquainted with the language , but who based his conclusions on information and testimony within his reach , " and who applied principles gradually matured in England , to practical Indian questions of ...
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