The Calcutta Review, Volume 14University of Calcutta, 1850 |
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... amount of seemingly plausible argument , or high - flown declamation , can avert the ultimate censure , which must be passed , sooner or later , upon narrow - minded , ill - judged expedients , teeming with error and evil . We therefore ...
... amount of seemingly plausible argument , or high - flown declamation , can avert the ultimate censure , which must be passed , sooner or later , upon narrow - minded , ill - judged expedients , teeming with error and evil . We therefore ...
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... amount , or share , at which the lands were assessed , several fees were also levied , varying in their nature according to circumstances in different districts , and frequently in different villages . They seem originally to have been ...
... amount , or share , at which the lands were assessed , several fees were also levied , varying in their nature according to circumstances in different districts , and frequently in different villages . They seem originally to have been ...
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two annas per rupee on the amount of revenue paid ; on lands paying by buttai , from two to three kasahs per karwar on the " gross produce ; " and on lands paying kasagi , from twenty to twenty - five rupees per hundred bigahs . Besides ...
two annas per rupee on the amount of revenue paid ; on lands paying by buttai , from two to three kasahs per karwar on the " gross produce ; " and on lands paying kasagi , from twenty to twenty - five rupees per hundred bigahs . Besides ...
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... amount of which was in all cases fixed by local custom , and was in no instance so exorbitant , as to act as a preventive to their cultivation . It must also be borne in mind , that the irrigation in Scinde is artificial , in all tracts ...
... amount of which was in all cases fixed by local custom , and was in no instance so exorbitant , as to act as a preventive to their cultivation . It must also be borne in mind , that the irrigation in Scinde is artificial , in all tracts ...
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... amount to an immense sum . * An iron measuring rod ( symbolical , to some fertile imaginations , of the Napierian rule ) was substi- tuted for the old wooden one ; and both these strike mea- sures and measuring rods were obtainable from ...
... amount to an immense sum . * An iron measuring rod ( symbolical , to some fertile imaginations , of the Napierian rule ) was substi- tuted for the old wooden one ; and both these strike mea- sures and measuring rods were obtainable from ...
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