The Calcutta Review, Volume 8University of Calcutta., 1847 - India |
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... remain perfectly neuter betwixt the sacri- ficing and the non - sacrificing tribes . Far from affecting disapproval of the worship of the latter , the Guddapore Rajah for example , sends his paiks in a body , at the request of the ...
... remain perfectly neuter betwixt the sacri- ficing and the non - sacrificing tribes . Far from affecting disapproval of the worship of the latter , the Guddapore Rajah for example , sends his paiks in a body , at the request of the ...
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... remains , then , that to Captain Macpherson we must award the indisputable merit of a perfect originality in his conception of the governing principle of a plan for the extirpation of human sacrifices among the Khonds . The application ...
... remains , then , that to Captain Macpherson we must award the indisputable merit of a perfect originality in his conception of the governing principle of a plan for the extirpation of human sacrifices among the Khonds . The application ...
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... remain unchanged . The local authority to have power to sentence to imprisonment with or without hard labour for six years , and to 195 stripes , and to carry into execution , and to remit , at any time the whole or any part of such ...
... remain unchanged . The local authority to have power to sentence to imprisonment with or without hard labour for six years , and to 195 stripes , and to carry into execution , and to remit , at any time the whole or any part of such ...
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... remains to be seen . Our own decided impression is , that there has not . But , as the whole subject has now been submitted to the investigation of a high minded and honourable man ; and as his report will doubtless be , in due time ...
... remains to be seen . Our own decided impression is , that there has not . But , as the whole subject has now been submitted to the investigation of a high minded and honourable man ; and as his report will doubtless be , in due time ...
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... remain unchanged , while its violence gradually abates , until the storm has passed quite over . An object to the North West of the centre will first of all be struck by the storm in the form of a North East wind , which will gradually ...
... remain unchanged , while its violence gradually abates , until the storm has passed quite over . An object to the North West of the centre will first of all be struck by the storm in the form of a North East wind , which will gradually ...
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