Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, Volume 9; Volume 26Wm. H. Allen & Company, 1828 - Asia Contains "verbatim reports of Debates at the East-India house, taken in shorthand for these pages". -- cf. v. 1, p. iii. |
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... judge aright of a nation from a rapid glance ! What must have been the astonishment of the poet when a few years later he saw the people whom he had con- sidered unworthy to bear the name of Greeks , rise as one man , and declare to the ...
... judge aright of a nation from a rapid glance ! What must have been the astonishment of the poet when a few years later he saw the people whom he had con- sidered unworthy to bear the name of Greeks , rise as one man , and declare to the ...
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... of India . The Gover- nor General expressed great surprise as well as pleasure at the progress made by these youths . To To enable our readers to judge of this progress , ( 40 ) JULY , ENGLISH COMPOSITION BY HINDUS. ...
... of India . The Gover- nor General expressed great surprise as well as pleasure at the progress made by these youths . To To enable our readers to judge of this progress , ( 40 ) JULY , ENGLISH COMPOSITION BY HINDUS. ...
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To enable our readers to judge of this progress , we subjoin the following extracts from six essays on the subject proposed for the first class , namely : " Has Europe or Asia benefited the most from the discovery of the passage round ...
To enable our readers to judge of this progress , we subjoin the following extracts from six essays on the subject proposed for the first class , namely : " Has Europe or Asia benefited the most from the discovery of the passage round ...
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... judge ; and that , if Mr. Erskine be absolved , he must necessarily be convicted of having exercised the judicial powers entrusted to him in a most inquisitorial manner . instance of extortion , and of Mr. Erskine's having " forgotten ...
... judge ; and that , if Mr. Erskine be absolved , he must necessarily be convicted of having exercised the judicial powers entrusted to him in a most inquisitorial manner . instance of extortion , and of Mr. Erskine's having " forgotten ...
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... judge of courts of Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut . Mr. T. Pakenham , commissioner in Cuttack , and ... judge of Provincial Courts of Appeal and Circuit for Division of Dacca . Mr. W. Cracoft , second judge of ditto ditto of ditto ...
... judge of courts of Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut . Mr. T. Pakenham , commissioner in Cuttack , and ... judge of Provincial Courts of Appeal and Circuit for Division of Dacca . Mr. W. Cracoft , second judge of ditto ditto of ditto ...
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Page 524 - Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, And the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Page 320 - And ever and anon he beat The doubling drum with furious heat ; And though sometimes each dreary pause between Dejected Pity at his side Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
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Page 445 - HIS MAJESTY having taken into consideration the said Report, and the Draft Charter accompanying it, was pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to approve thereof, and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the...
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Page 180 - Upon which charges the court came to the following decision.