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... Character , Manners , and Customs of the People of India ; and of their Institutions , Religious and Civil . By the Abbé J. A. Dubois , Missionary in the Mysore . Translated from the French Manuscript . 4to . pp . 590. 21. 2s . Boards ...
... Character , Manners , and Customs of the People of India ; and of their Institutions , Religious and Civil . By the Abbé J. A. Dubois , Missionary in the Mysore . Translated from the French Manuscript . 4to . pp . 590. 21. 2s . Boards ...
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... character and resources of the Icelanders , therefore , form new and prominent topics in his narrative : though we cannot dis- semble that the aggregate amount of his anxious inquiries and daily observations on these points may be ...
... character and resources of the Icelanders , therefore , form new and prominent topics in his narrative : though we cannot dis- semble that the aggregate amount of his anxious inquiries and daily observations on these points may be ...
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... character , and too coarse a daubing of colours thrown over all his descrip- tions . His story is thus rendered improbable ; and his lan- guage is debased by the grossest licence of construction and indistinctness of phraseology . His ...
... character , and too coarse a daubing of colours thrown over all his descrip- tions . His story is thus rendered improbable ; and his lan- guage is debased by the grossest licence of construction and indistinctness of phraseology . His ...
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