The Quarterly Review, Volume 122William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1867 |
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... important European settlement in the East . From it as a centre the Governor - General of all the Indias ( a title still retained by the Portuguese Governor ) commanded Cochin , and the other ports along the western coasts of India ...
... important European settlement in the East . From it as a centre the Governor - General of all the Indias ( a title still retained by the Portuguese Governor ) commanded Cochin , and the other ports along the western coasts of India ...
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... importance in its bearing on what has really been the most weighty issue raised at the recent Inter- national Conference at Constantinople . Our next account of mordeshin is also from Goa . Linschot , a Dutchman , spent some years in ...
... importance in its bearing on what has really been the most weighty issue raised at the recent Inter- national Conference at Constantinople . Our next account of mordeshin is also from Goa . Linschot , a Dutchman , spent some years in ...
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... important fact that , when it did appear again , or at least when we hear of it again , it was recognised by its old name of mordeshin . In this absence of definite information regarding cholera in the first half of the eighteenth ...
... important fact that , when it did appear again , or at least when we hear of it again , it was recognised by its old name of mordeshin . In this absence of definite information regarding cholera in the first half of the eighteenth ...
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... important to obtain accounts of cholera epidemics in other parts of India of an earlier date , but none have yet been discovered . Dr. James D 2 Johnson , 1781 , a detachment of Bengal troops passing down from The Cholera Conference . 35.
... important to obtain accounts of cholera epidemics in other parts of India of an earlier date , but none have yet been discovered . Dr. James D 2 Johnson , 1781 , a detachment of Bengal troops passing down from The Cholera Conference . 35.
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... important bearing on some of the main propositions enunciated by the Conference , which we shall now proceed to lay before our readers . Some of the chief conclusions of the Constantinople meeting have been laid down in the following ...
... important bearing on some of the main propositions enunciated by the Conference , which we shall now proceed to lay before our readers . Some of the chief conclusions of the Constantinople meeting have been laid down in the following ...
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