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... native side of the story , or to study it from the point of view here pre- sented . For the military and political aims and operations of the early British officers in Madras and Bengal , however , Elphinstone will be found a valuable ...
... native side of the story , or to study it from the point of view here pre- sented . For the military and political aims and operations of the early British officers in Madras and Bengal , however , Elphinstone will be found a valuable ...
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... natives . For this purpose it is peculiarly suited , from still possessing the power of assimilating foreign roots , instead of simply inserting them cut and dried , as is the case with languages that have reached maturity . Its own ...
... natives . For this purpose it is peculiarly suited , from still possessing the power of assimilating foreign roots , instead of simply inserting them cut and dried , as is the case with languages that have reached maturity . Its own ...
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... natives , as a general rule , will stand apart from the truth ; main- taining , at the best , a state of mental vacuity which hangs suspended , for a time , between an atheism , from which they shrink , and a Christianity , which fails ...
... natives , as a general rule , will stand apart from the truth ; main- taining , at the best , a state of mental vacuity which hangs suspended , for a time , between an atheism , from which they shrink , and a Christianity , which fails ...
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... native than the sight of a crowd of villagers going to or returning from a fair in Upper India . The stalwart young farmers are accompanied by their wives ; each woman in her coloured wimple , with her shapely arms covered nearly to the ...
... native than the sight of a crowd of villagers going to or returning from a fair in Upper India . The stalwart young farmers are accompanied by their wives ; each woman in her coloured wimple , with her shapely arms covered nearly to the ...
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... natives of Hindustan are peculiarly so ; but they are also unsympathetic and unobservant in a manner that is altogether their own . From the languor induced by the climate , and from the selfishness engendered by centuries of misgovern ...
... natives of Hindustan are peculiarly so ; but they are also unsympathetic and unobservant in a manner that is altogether their own . From the languor induced by the climate , and from the selfishness engendered by centuries of misgovern ...
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