Colonies and Dependencies: India, Parte 1

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Macmillan and Company, 1883 - 164 páginas

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Página 62 - This city is as extensive, populous, and rich as the city of London, with this difference, that there are individuals in the first possessing infinitely greater property than in the last city.
Página 73 - Carpet-making, fine embroidery, jewellery, metal work, the damascening of arms, saddlery, carving, papermaking, even architecture and sculpture, have all alike decayed. In some cases the change is to be regretted, not only as impairing the social economy, but as an absolute loss to the artistic treasures of the world. Processes have been forgotten, and hereditary aptitudes have fallen into disuse, which can now never be restored. An India supplying England with its raw products, and in its turn dependent...
Página 20 - East-Indies — who were incorporated by royal charter on the last day of the year 1600.

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