The Edinburgh Review, Volume 148A. and C. Black, 1878 - English literature |
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... present day , as to extent , political supremacy , and internal administration , is his creation . Some of his successors , notably Lord Hastings and Lord Dalhousie , added to the structure , but it was erected in all essential points ...
... present day , as to extent , political supremacy , and internal administration , is his creation . Some of his successors , notably Lord Hastings and Lord Dalhousie , added to the structure , but it was erected in all essential points ...
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... present occupant of the palace had been placed there by Sir John Shore in the room of his profligate nephew , pensioned off as hopelessly incorrigible . But the political circumstances of the Carnatic and Oudh were very different . His ...
... present occupant of the palace had been placed there by Sir John Shore in the room of his profligate nephew , pensioned off as hopelessly incorrigible . But the political circumstances of the Carnatic and Oudh were very different . His ...
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... present cases . To the peasantry , who made up the mass of the population affected , a change of rulers was a matter of almost perfect indifference , so long as they were relieved from oppression and allowed to cultivate their lands in ...
... present cases . To the peasantry , who made up the mass of the population affected , a change of rulers was a matter of almost perfect indifference , so long as they were relieved from oppression and allowed to cultivate their lands in ...
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... present High Court of Judicature . 2. The extension of the duties falling to the Company's civil servants brought into prominence their defective education . Sent out to India at an age little more than that now fixed for admission to ...
... present High Court of Judicature . 2. The extension of the duties falling to the Company's civil servants brought into prominence their defective education . Sent out to India at an age little more than that now fixed for admission to ...
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... present case the nature of the war involved that it should be carried out by a number of what were in effect independent campaigns , the armies operating in which were separated from each other by many hundreds of miles , advancing from ...
... present case the nature of the war involved that it should be carried out by a number of what were in effect independent campaigns , the armies operating in which were separated from each other by many hundreds of miles , advancing from ...
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