Calcutta Review, Volume 29University of Calcutta., 1857 |
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... course , disagree entirely . We might shelter missions under the consideration that Mr. Taylor has seen so very little of missionary operations , as to make it perfectly true , that what he saw did not correspond to the vast expenditure ...
... course , disagree entirely . We might shelter missions under the consideration that Mr. Taylor has seen so very little of missionary operations , as to make it perfectly true , that what he saw did not correspond to the vast expenditure ...
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... courses as they were served up . Although we left at the end of the twelfth course , we were told that twelve more were in readiness to follow . " From Loo - Choo , Commodore Perry paid a brief visit to the Bonin Islands , which were ...
... courses as they were served up . Although we left at the end of the twelfth course , we were told that twelve more were in readiness to follow . " From Loo - Choo , Commodore Perry paid a brief visit to the Bonin Islands , which were ...
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... course , we do not regard hunger as the only evil that can fall to the lot of man ; but we have little sympathy with those who represent it as a trifling evil . It is all very well for young poets and young lovers to talk lightly of ...
... course , we do not regard hunger as the only evil that can fall to the lot of man ; but we have little sympathy with those who represent it as a trifling evil . It is all very well for young poets and young lovers to talk lightly of ...
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... course of procedure which gave rise to it . M. Dellon enables us to throw some light on the subject . Any person accused before the Holy Office , could not be con- victed , unless his guilt were established by the testimony of no fewer ...
... course of procedure which gave rise to it . M. Dellon enables us to throw some light on the subject . Any person accused before the Holy Office , could not be con- victed , unless his guilt were established by the testimony of no fewer ...
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... course of his defence , to quote a passage of scripture , - " Unless a man be born of water , & c . " - he was surprised to find that the Inquisitor seemed quite unaware of the existence of such a passage . He asked where it was to be ...
... course of his defence , to quote a passage of scripture , - " Unless a man be born of water , & c . " - he was surprised to find that the Inquisitor seemed quite unaware of the existence of such a passage . He asked where it was to be ...
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