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... England , in every thing that relates to India , has produced a demand for trustworthy information regarding its history , its institutions , its condition , and its people , which the cur- rent literature of the East , at present ...
... England , in every thing that relates to India , has produced a demand for trustworthy information regarding its history , its institutions , its condition , and its people , which the cur- rent literature of the East , at present ...
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... England up to the date of the departure of the Steamers on the 4th and 20th of each Month . hand an extensive Assortment of BEST AUTHORS in ELEGANT S. T. & Co. also keep regularly on the most approved editions of THE BINDINGS in Calf ...
... England up to the date of the departure of the Steamers on the 4th and 20th of each Month . hand an extensive Assortment of BEST AUTHORS in ELEGANT S. T. & Co. also keep regularly on the most approved editions of THE BINDINGS in Calf ...
Pagina 1
... England only such reports of the condition of India as could be implicitly relied on . His qualifications were thus described by Mr. Bright , on moving the resolution for the mis- sion , at the meeting of the several Chambers of ...
... England only such reports of the condition of India as could be implicitly relied on . His qualifications were thus described by Mr. Bright , on moving the resolution for the mis- sion , at the meeting of the several Chambers of ...
Pagina 2
... England , Mr. Mackay was scarcely a year in India ere his health entirely gave way , and compelled him to return home . We are told that he transmitted nearly the whole of his reports now given to the world , at intervals extending over ...
... England , Mr. Mackay was scarcely a year in India ere his health entirely gave way , and compelled him to return home . We are told that he transmitted nearly the whole of his reports now given to the world , at intervals extending over ...
Pagina 3
... England . In illustra- tion of this - not a thought is bestowed on the difficulties of the position of the East India Company - its debt - its limited revenue - the few European servants it can afford to keep up for civil employ in the ...
... England . In illustra- tion of this - not a thought is bestowed on the difficulties of the position of the East India Company - its debt - its limited revenue - the few European servants it can afford to keep up for civil employ in the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 134 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Pagina 54 - As she is not a heroine, there is no need to describe her person ; indeed I am afraid that her nose was rather short than otherwise, and her cheeks a great deal too round and red for a heroine ; but her face blushed with rosy health, and her lips with the freshest of smiles, and she had a pair of eyes, which sparkled with the brightest and honestest...
Pagina 46 - His variety is like the variety of nature, endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity. The characters of which he has given us an impression as vivid as that which we receive from the characters of our own associates are to be reckoned by scores. Yet in all these scores hardly one character...
Pagina 173 - Ambassador's house, who had such a freedom and liberty of speech that she would sometimes scould, brawl, and rail from the sunrising to the sunset ; one day he undertook her in her own language, and by eight of the clock in the morning so silenced her that she had not one word more to speak.
Pagina 61 - for so it was that Becky felt the Vanity of human affairs, and it was in those securities that she would have liked to cast anchor.
Pagina 53 - But as we are to see a great deal of Amelia, there is no harm in saying, at the outset of our acquaintance, that she was a dear little creature...
Pagina 71 - ... nature in the painter ; but I contend that there is in most of them that sprinkling of the better nature, which, like holy water, chases away and disperses the contagion of the bad. They have this in them, besides, that they bring us acquainted with the every-day human face, — they give us skill to detect those gradations of sense and virtue (which escape the careless or fastidious observer) in the...