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Pagina 4
... person can easily point out what India wants , and can , with irresistible logic , make out that the country has been scandalously neglected , -if the pecuniary part of the matter may be left entirely out of consideration . We may ...
... person can easily point out what India wants , and can , with irresistible logic , make out that the country has been scandalously neglected , -if the pecuniary part of the matter may be left entirely out of consideration . We may ...
Pagina 7
... person separates the cotton ( henceforward called " roo " or " rooee , " in con- tradistinction to " kuppas , " or seed cotton ) from the " kupassia , " or cotton seed , packs it in rather loosely screwed bales , and ships it to Bombay ...
... person separates the cotton ( henceforward called " roo " or " rooee , " in con- tradistinction to " kuppas , " or seed cotton ) from the " kupassia , " or cotton seed , packs it in rather loosely screwed bales , and ships it to Bombay ...
Pagina 10
... person fraudulently mixing good and bad descriptions of cotton in one bale , termed false packing , and fraudulently offering for sale , or Measures to prevent the Alulteration of Cotton . 11 selling 10 Mr. Mackay's Report on Guzerat .
... person fraudulently mixing good and bad descriptions of cotton in one bale , termed false packing , and fraudulently offering for sale , or Measures to prevent the Alulteration of Cotton . 11 selling 10 Mr. Mackay's Report on Guzerat .
Pagina 11
... person fraudulently deteriorating cotton , by exposing it by night to heavy dews , by putting dirt , stones , earth , or any other substance , or salt water , amongst it , with the view of making it heavier , and packing it , in that ...
... person fraudulently deteriorating cotton , by exposing it by night to heavy dews , by putting dirt , stones , earth , or any other substance , or salt water , amongst it , with the view of making it heavier , and packing it , in that ...
Pagina 22
... person holding it is always thoroughly ac- quainted with the minutiae of the revenue management of his district , and able to supply information on any subject that the Mamlutdar and his establishment , from being stipendary and ...
... person holding it is always thoroughly ac- quainted with the minutiae of the revenue management of his district , and able to supply information on any subject that the Mamlutdar and his establishment , from being stipendary and ...
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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...