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administration affairs Afghanistan afterwards already mentioned appointed army authorities became Behar Bengal Bombay British Government British rule budget Calcutta canals capital caused CHAP chapter character chiefs Christian civil classes conduct considerable Crown 8vo cultivation Deccan Delhi despatch districts duties effect empire England English established European troops famine favour Fcap force forests Frere frontier Government of India Governor Governor-General Henry Hindu honour Hyderabad Illustrations improvement income-tax irrigation John Lawrence labour Lahore land revenue Lord Dalhousie Lord Mayo Madras Mahratta Maps and Plans measures ment military millions sterling mind Minister moral mountains Muhammadan mutinies Nagpur Napier Native Nizam North-western Provinces officers Oudh Panjab Peshawar political popular Portrait Post 8vo Presidency principle proceedings progress railway regarding respect river ruler settlement shewed Sikh Sir Bartle Sir Bartle Frere Sir Charles southern India territory thought tion village Vols Woodcuts
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Page 20 - LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to his Death. Continued by a Narrative of his Last Moments, obtained from his Faithful Servants Chuma and Susi.
Page 17 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Page 509 - The loyal to their crown Are loyal to their own far sons, who love Our ocean-empire with her boundless homes For ever-broadening England, and her throne In our vast Orient, and one isle, one isle, That knows not her own greatness : if she knows And dreads it we are fall'n. But thou, my Queen, Not for itself, but thro...
Page 155 - Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain ! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream ; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood.
Page 36 - tis haunted, holy ground, No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon...
Page 265 - I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Page 420 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Page 276 - Fort, taking up a portion of the plain, and making allotments of ground available for building. Sir Bartle Frere took up this project with his accustomed zeal, and obtained large sums in purchase money from those who bid for the allotments. The means thus acquired, together with grants from the Government, were collected and formed into a special fund for the construction of public offices and buildings for Bombay. The formation and management of this fund caused much correspondence with the Government...
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