The Calcutta Review, Volume 14University of Calcutta, 1850 |
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... able to manage and set forth new positions to the world : and , were they but as the dust and cinders of our feet , so long , as in that notion , they may yet serve to polish and brighten the armoury of truth , even for that respect ...
... able to manage and set forth new positions to the world : and , were they but as the dust and cinders of our feet , so long , as in that notion , they may yet serve to polish and brighten the armoury of truth , even for that respect ...
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... able to assert , immediately after his crowning victory , that " not another shot would be fired in Scinde . " The expulsion of the Amírs , the dispersion of the army , and the peaceable disposition of the people , formed a rare ...
... able to assert , immediately after his crowning victory , that " not another shot would be fired in Scinde . " The expulsion of the Amírs , the dispersion of the army , and the peaceable disposition of the people , formed a rare ...
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... able and far - seeing men , whose councils in- fluenced it , and whose main ends would have been frus- trated , had they turned their attention to Seinde . Was the ad- vance to be made from Lahore ? With the British 8 BRITISH ...
... able and far - seeing men , whose councils in- fluenced it , and whose main ends would have been frus- trated , had they turned their attention to Seinde . Was the ad- vance to be made from Lahore ? With the British 8 BRITISH ...
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... able body of chiefs , ready to succeed each other in the command and respect of their troops . In the Punjab , we found hostility and treachery on every side , fierce foes and dangerous friends ; and , instead of a people , coming wil ...
... able body of chiefs , ready to succeed each other in the command and respect of their troops . In the Punjab , we found hostility and treachery on every side , fierce foes and dangerous friends ; and , instead of a people , coming wil ...
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... able throughout India , in local customs and institutions in different districts and even villages , which renders a perfect experience in one part insufficient to guide a man in another , we must admit that a total inexperience is not ...
... able throughout India , in local customs and institutions in different districts and even villages , which renders a perfect experience in one part insufficient to guide a man in another , we must admit that a total inexperience is not ...
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