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... 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 , does not adequately ...
... 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 , does not adequately ...
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... thing of the kind that has appeared . S. T. & Co. will be happy to transmit copies of this Catalogue on application , and to afford information in reply to communications , or in- quiries addressed to them with reference to any portion ...
... thing of the kind that has appeared . S. T. & Co. will be happy to transmit copies of this Catalogue on application , and to afford information in reply to communications , or in- quiries addressed to them with reference to any portion ...
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... things the lectures contain ! What eloquent and subtle sayings , what wise and earnest writing ! How delightful are their turns of humour ; with what a touching effect , in the graver passages , the genuine feeling of the man comes out ...
... things the lectures contain ! What eloquent and subtle sayings , what wise and earnest writing ! How delightful are their turns of humour ; with what a touching effect , in the graver passages , the genuine feeling of the man comes out ...
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... but we know that he heard a great many other things from unquestionable sources , quite at variance with the statements he has Uutrustworthiness of Mr. Mackay's Report . 5 preferred to adopt Mr. Mackay's Report on Guzerat .
... but we know that he heard a great many other things from unquestionable sources , quite at variance with the statements he has Uutrustworthiness of Mr. Mackay's Report . 5 preferred to adopt Mr. Mackay's Report on Guzerat .
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... thing he has reported to his friends . In India it can only excite a smile . He spent his three months exceedingly well . We recognize indeed the fidelity of many of his statements on subjects on which ocular inspection was all that was ...
... thing he has reported to his friends . In India it can only excite a smile . He spent his three months exceedingly well . We recognize indeed the fidelity of many of his statements on subjects on which ocular inspection was all that was ...
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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...