The British Empire Series: India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, British North Borneo, Hong-KongK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1899 |
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... remains , and if to strength we add intelligence , we may still look for a blessing on our task of empire . The articles which follow in this volume are evidence at once of the vast variety of the problems- physical , ethnological , and ...
... remains , and if to strength we add intelligence , we may still look for a blessing on our task of empire . The articles which follow in this volume are evidence at once of the vast variety of the problems- physical , ethnological , and ...
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... remains that , what with real differences of language and local dialects of peculiar vocabulary or pronunciation , the native of any part of India cannot go many miles beyond his birthplace without finding himself at a loss in ...
... remains that , what with real differences of language and local dialects of peculiar vocabulary or pronunciation , the native of any part of India cannot go many miles beyond his birthplace without finding himself at a loss in ...
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... remains the man who must carry water or catch fish , or ferry the village boat or coracle , if the river intervene between the peasant and his fields , but must not presume to let his ambition take higher flights . In different parts of ...
... remains the man who must carry water or catch fish , or ferry the village boat or coracle , if the river intervene between the peasant and his fields , but must not presume to let his ambition take higher flights . In different parts of ...
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... remains which can only be effected by the co - operation of the people themselves . This problem is no other than the old one propounded by the King of Brob- dingnag , of how to make two blades of corn grow where one grew before . A ...
... remains which can only be effected by the co - operation of the people themselves . This problem is no other than the old one propounded by the King of Brob- dingnag , of how to make two blades of corn grow where one grew before . A ...
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... remains . These remain , and nothing else , to mark Mahratta rule . They were not architects , and their public works were insignificant ; whereas the Mohamedans have left us , for instance , the architectural beauties of Ahmedabad ...
... remains . These remain , and nothing else , to mark Mahratta rule . They were not architects , and their public works were insignificant ; whereas the Mohamedans have left us , for instance , the architectural beauties of Ahmedabad ...
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