Calcutta Review, Volume 9University of Calcutta, 1848 |
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... things , which speak to the eye and heart of the Tourist and Draughtsman ; nature's fertility and the productiveness of civili- zation arrest the regards of the philosophic historian , who at- tempts to read something of a nation's ...
... things , which speak to the eye and heart of the Tourist and Draughtsman ; nature's fertility and the productiveness of civili- zation arrest the regards of the philosophic historian , who at- tempts to read something of a nation's ...
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... things , the sooner the ground is moistened and the seed sown , the better chance it will have of gaining head before the heaviest rains fall . As a general rule it is sown from the end of March or the beginning and middle of April to ...
... things , the sooner the ground is moistened and the seed sown , the better chance it will have of gaining head before the heaviest rains fall . As a general rule it is sown from the end of March or the beginning and middle of April to ...
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... thing of firmer bulk ; and a little further on an undistinguishable mass of thorn , creepers , and underwood of every shade , length and denomination . Such is the general aspect of a village in Bengal and such it will ever be , until ...
... thing of firmer bulk ; and a little further on an undistinguishable mass of thorn , creepers , and underwood of every shade , length and denomination . Such is the general aspect of a village in Bengal and such it will ever be , until ...
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... things al- ways mending when at their worst . Let this but hold good and the roads of Lower Bengal might almost be expected to mend of themselves . The above remarks have been penned in the spirit not of cavil , but of unfeigned regret ...
... things al- ways mending when at their worst . Let this but hold good and the roads of Lower Bengal might almost be expected to mend of themselves . The above remarks have been penned in the spirit not of cavil , but of unfeigned regret ...
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... Things thus found their level in a very short period of time , and even when an estate was put up for sale , it would often be found that the exactions or carelessness of a landlord , or the rapacity of his agents , or the mysterious ...
... Things thus found their level in a very short period of time , and even when an estate was put up for sale , it would often be found that the exactions or carelessness of a landlord , or the rapacity of his agents , or the mysterious ...
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