The Calcutta Review, Volume 10University of Calcutta, 1848 |
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... positions to the world : and were they but as the dust and cinders of our feet , so long , as in that notion , they may yet serve to polish and brighten the armoury of truth ; even for that respect they were not utterly to be cast away ...
... positions to the world : and were they but as the dust and cinders of our feet , so long , as in that notion , they may yet serve to polish and brighten the armoury of truth ; even for that respect they were not utterly to be cast away ...
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... position , the same circle is woven round him , whether he be at Calcutta or Kabul : he introduces the same machinery , and brings into action the same inflexible and uncompromising laws , beyond which he deems it impossible to exist ...
... position , the same circle is woven round him , whether he be at Calcutta or Kabul : he introduces the same machinery , and brings into action the same inflexible and uncompromising laws , beyond which he deems it impossible to exist ...
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... position of the country at the time of British occupation presents fair ground for some sort of argument either that in practice the state of things above described is not injurious to the people , or that the pros- perity of the ...
... position of the country at the time of British occupation presents fair ground for some sort of argument either that in practice the state of things above described is not injurious to the people , or that the pros- perity of the ...
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... position , the system of alienation of the sources of public revenue previous to their collection is as unwarrantable , and as hardly justified , as the mal - appropriation , or lavish expenditure of the funds in the public Treasury ...
... position , the system of alienation of the sources of public revenue previous to their collection is as unwarrantable , and as hardly justified , as the mal - appropriation , or lavish expenditure of the funds in the public Treasury ...
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... position of good lieges . The equally unpalatable lesson has been read to them , and practically inculcated , that the producer of the rich gift of the soil has rights as well as the consumer - that the world was not made for an upstart ...
... position of good lieges . The equally unpalatable lesson has been read to them , and practically inculcated , that the producer of the rich gift of the soil has rights as well as the consumer - that the world was not made for an upstart ...
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adopted agent appears army Artillery authority Bengal Bisaye Bombay Brahmans British Government Calcutta Candahar Captain Macpherson character charge chief Colonel Ovans command consideration considered corps Court Cuttack districts duty endeavour England English established European evil existence fact feelings female infanticide Gangá Ghat Goomsur Havildars Hindu History human important India Infantry influence Jagannath Jaghirs justice Khond country labour language letters Lord Lord Ellenborough Madras Mahomed Mahratta means measure ment military mind Mutah native nature never object occasion opinion Orissa parties passed Patna pilgrims pledged political portion possession Post Office postage practice present principles Púrí question racter Raja Raja's Rajah readers regard Regiment remark Resident respect revenue Rowland Hill rupees sacrifice Sam Bisaye Sanskrit Satara sepoys shew sick Sikh Sir Robert Grant temple thing Thornton tion treaty tribes troops victims Vishnu whole words Yavana
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