The Calcutta Review, Volumes 134-435 |
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Page 21
... absurdly staked — the turn up of a particular card , or the number of people that would pass a street window in a given time - serve in themselves to indicate the readiness with which excitement in any form was always welcomed .
... absurdly staked — the turn up of a particular card , or the number of people that would pass a street window in a given time - serve in themselves to indicate the readiness with which excitement in any form was always welcomed .
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The survivor spends the rest of his days with the cheering consciousness of having sent a fellow - creature to a premature grave , or perchance a few more “ successful affairs , " turns him into a callous bully .
The survivor spends the rest of his days with the cheering consciousness of having sent a fellow - creature to a premature grave , or perchance a few more “ successful affairs , " turns him into a callous bully .
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Hastings boiling with indignation at his opponent's ministerial deceits and determined to make an attempt to get rid for good and all of the malignant antagonist who opposed him at every turn , had written in one of the minutes of the ...
Hastings boiling with indignation at his opponent's ministerial deceits and determined to make an attempt to get rid for good and all of the malignant antagonist who opposed him at every turn , had written in one of the minutes of the ...
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In order to preserve the native vigour , purity and idiom of the Indian National language , it must not be adulterated with foreign mixtures so as to turn it into a sort of lingua franca . What would have been the fate of the melodious ...
In order to preserve the native vigour , purity and idiom of the Indian National language , it must not be adulterated with foreign mixtures so as to turn it into a sort of lingua franca . What would have been the fate of the melodious ...
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... handed down quite untampered because they are not capable of realising its importance and its sacredness is prohibitive of intervention . It is to his folklore therefore that the compilers of the Kakar's history turn for a clue to ...
... handed down quite untampered because they are not capable of realising its importance and its sacredness is prohibitive of intervention . It is to his folklore therefore that the compilers of the Kakar's history turn for a clue to ...
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