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... believe that the time , if not arrived , is rapidly approaching , when an Indian periodical should open its columns to matter of universal interest . If , on the one hand , the results of modern science have of late years brought India ...
... believe that the time , if not arrived , is rapidly approaching , when an Indian periodical should open its columns to matter of universal interest . If , on the one hand , the results of modern science have of late years brought India ...
Pagina 2
... believe that Mr. Mackay spared no pains to arrive at the truth , —that his errors , grave and inexplicable in many respects , as they are , are still conscientious , and mainly attributable to the peculiar duty he had to discharge , and ...
... believe that Mr. Mackay spared no pains to arrive at the truth , —that his errors , grave and inexplicable in many respects , as they are , are still conscientious , and mainly attributable to the peculiar duty he had to discharge , and ...
Pagina 4
... believe that there is a single cultivator throughout Guzerat who has the least idea that his tenure is insecure ; and Mr. Mackay does not affirm that there is . We propose , in the present number , to confine our observations to the ...
... believe that there is a single cultivator throughout Guzerat who has the least idea that his tenure is insecure ; and Mr. Mackay does not affirm that there is . We propose , in the present number , to confine our observations to the ...
Pagina 8
... believe that Mr. Mackay is quite right in the following : " But admitting the superiority of the saw - gin in point of cheapness , clean- ness and celerity , it is not to be overlooked that the churka has been found to do least harm to ...
... believe that Mr. Mackay is quite right in the following : " But admitting the superiority of the saw - gin in point of cheapness , clean- ness and celerity , it is not to be overlooked that the churka has been found to do least harm to ...
Pagina 10
... believe in its exist- ence ; who live and profit by the adulteration of the article , as their fathers have done before them ; and who combine to keep the trade in their own hands , and prevent European interference ; and against whom a ...
... believe in its exist- ence ; who live and profit by the adulteration of the article , as their fathers have done before them ; and who combine to keep the trade in their own hands , and prevent European interference ; and against whom a ...
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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...