The Calcutta Review, Volumes 134-435University of Calcutta, 1912 |
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... interest , as they should be of instruction to the student of history or the observer of human nature , furnishing as they do instances of individual capacity and possibilities under unusual conditions which are scarcely likely to re ...
... interest , as they should be of instruction to the student of history or the observer of human nature , furnishing as they do instances of individual capacity and possibilities under unusual conditions which are scarcely likely to re ...
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... interests of mankind . Sanskrit is one of the classical languages . Sir William Jones , who announced that Sanskrit , Greek and Latin had all sprung from one com- mon source , characterised it to be of a wonderful struc- ture , more ...
... interests of mankind . Sanskrit is one of the classical languages . Sir William Jones , who announced that Sanskrit , Greek and Latin had all sprung from one com- mon source , characterised it to be of a wonderful struc- ture , more ...
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... interest . The nature and design of poetry is to render us wiser and happier and not , as some say , to please the imagination and corrupt the heart . Since the beauty of language and harmony of numbers are admittedly more likely to ...
... interest . The nature and design of poetry is to render us wiser and happier and not , as some say , to please the imagination and corrupt the heart . Since the beauty of language and harmony of numbers are admittedly more likely to ...
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... in the finest possible way and have thereby become a factor in the world's politics . But another kind of interest centres round Japan ; and that is based upon her victories of peace . Her quaint manners , her curious customs ,
... in the finest possible way and have thereby become a factor in the world's politics . But another kind of interest centres round Japan ; and that is based upon her victories of peace . Her quaint manners , her curious customs ,
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... interest was awakened in these " great magazines of morta- lity . " Of records of tombs in India we have now a more or less complete list . Government has published certain volumes of Indian monumental inscriptions , We have lists for ...
... interest was awakened in these " great magazines of morta- lity . " Of records of tombs in India we have now a more or less complete list . Government has published certain volumes of Indian monumental inscriptions , We have lists for ...
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