Essays in History and ArtW. Blackwood and sons, 1862 - 526 páginas |
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... Government to superintend the dyeing department of the royal manufactories at the Gobelins . His work , accordingly , is purely scientific in its character , and by no means inviting to the general reader ; but it contains a great deal ...
... Government to superintend the dyeing department of the royal manufactories at the Gobelins . His work , accordingly , is purely scientific in its character , and by no means inviting to the general reader ; but it contains a great deal ...
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... government which distinguished their ances- tors of old Gaul . We may remark in conclusion , on this topic , that the as- cendancy of certain families of mankind is due not only to their superior physical , but even more to their ...
... government which distinguished their ances- tors of old Gaul . We may remark in conclusion , on this topic , that the as- cendancy of certain families of mankind is due not only to their superior physical , but even more to their ...
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... government with the subject races , as the Normans in England did , —or , if obsti- nately maintaining their class - despotism , to be violently de- posed from the supremacy . The increasing development of the Greek and other sections ...
... government with the subject races , as the Normans in England did , —or , if obsti- nately maintaining their class - despotism , to be violently de- posed from the supremacy . The increasing development of the Greek and other sections ...
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... government recently undertaken by the Ottoman rulers , and the remarkable abeyance in which they have begun to place the distinctive tenets of the Mohammedan faith , promised , if unthwarted by foreign influences , to keep the various ...
... government recently undertaken by the Ottoman rulers , and the remarkable abeyance in which they have begun to place the distinctive tenets of the Mohammedan faith , promised , if unthwarted by foreign influences , to keep the various ...
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... , and make known to the dull unlettered mujik the might and resources of the Czar . But the British people know and read , and their Government speaks to them simply through blue - books and the press . OUR INDIAN EMPIRE.
... , and make known to the dull unlettered mujik the might and resources of the Czar . But the British people know and read , and their Government speaks to them simply through blue - books and the press . OUR INDIAN EMPIRE.
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Página 195 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature and the encouragement of the learned Natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British Territories in India...
Página 362 - Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower. Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.