The British Empire Series, Volume 1Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1899 |
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... colonies , settle- ments , and countries scattered over the world which go to form the whole known as " The British Empire . " It was thought that a wider and deeper knowledge of the growth , present condition , and possibilities of ...
... colonies , settle- ments , and countries scattered over the world which go to form the whole known as " The British Empire . " It was thought that a wider and deeper knowledge of the growth , present condition , and possibilities of ...
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... colonies , to which of late years camels have been imported for travelling in the interior , and to which it has been found necessary to take also Afghans and Sindees as drivers , as otherwise the animals were unmanageable . The ...
... colonies , to which of late years camels have been imported for travelling in the interior , and to which it has been found necessary to take also Afghans and Sindees as drivers , as otherwise the animals were unmanageable . The ...
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... colony of the ancient Aryan Hindus , vied with the schools of the older States of Northern India . Janaka , King of the Videhas , figures as a great teacher and sage in those ancient and remarkable re- ligious works of the Hindus known ...
... colony of the ancient Aryan Hindus , vied with the schools of the older States of Northern India . Janaka , King of the Videhas , figures as a great teacher and sage in those ancient and remarkable re- ligious works of the Hindus known ...
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... colonies of Northern India , and the rise of an aboriginal nation which had received the mantle of Aryan civilisation , language , and religion . As Hellenised Macedon rose , after the decline of Greece , in order to spread Greek ...
... colonies of Northern India , and the rise of an aboriginal nation which had received the mantle of Aryan civilisation , language , and religion . As Hellenised Macedon rose , after the decline of Greece , in order to spread Greek ...
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... colonists who had settled down in this eastern region ; the lower classes , the Kaibartas , and Chandals , and others , were the descend- 1 " Buddhist missionaries , " says Professor Mahaffy , " preached in Syria two centuries before ...
... colonists who had settled down in this eastern region ; the lower classes , the Kaibartas , and Chandals , and others , were the descend- 1 " Buddhist missionaries , " says Professor Mahaffy , " preached in Syria two centuries before ...
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