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... contain a good deal of error , which could only be completely avoided by a perfect knowledge of each recorded tongue on ... containing some hundreds of words , carefully selected and deliberately set down from the mouths of those to whom ...
... contain a good deal of error , which could only be completely avoided by a perfect knowledge of each recorded tongue on ... containing some hundreds of words , carefully selected and deliberately set down from the mouths of those to whom ...
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... contain , could for a moment question that mountains abound in Tibet . On the other hand , there are several reasons of a general nature , besides the specific allega- tions of the fact by the people , to prove that widespread plains ...
... contain , could for a moment question that mountains abound in Tibet . On the other hand , there are several reasons of a general nature , besides the specific allega- tions of the fact by the people , to prove that widespread plains ...
Page 191
... contain 12,000 houses . Its palace , temples , and tanks are very striking structures . Thence to Sángá , two kóз . This bridge - like place stands on a low ridge separating the great valley of Népál Proper from the subordinate valley ...
... contain 12,000 houses . Its palace , temples , and tanks are very striking structures . Thence to Sángá , two kóз . This bridge - like place stands on a low ridge separating the great valley of Népál Proper from the subordinate valley ...
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... containing it is studied by the bicháris and others whom it may concern . [ Another respondent , on the other hand , says , with reference to the customary laws : " They are not reduced to writing ; nor are the dit'has or bicháris ...
... containing it is studied by the bicháris and others whom it may concern . [ Another respondent , on the other hand , says , with reference to the customary laws : " They are not reduced to writing ; nor are the dit'has or bicháris ...
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... containing 250 scholars has not received pecuniary assistance from more than seven native gentlemen ? Were we to tell the story that all the good service rendered to 80 millions in the way of education proceeds from Englishmen , and ...
... containing 250 scholars has not received pecuniary assistance from more than seven native gentlemen ? Were we to tell the story that all the good service rendered to 80 millions in the way of education proceeds from Englishmen , and ...
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