Life in India: A Series of Sketches Showing Something of the Anglo-Indian, the Land He Lives In, and the People Among Whom He LivesLongmans, Green, 1872 - 349 páginas |
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... races , but early marriage is the rule , and unhappy results the general consequence . Leaving this marriage procession , we come across a procession by which the majesty of the law is vindi- cated . A police - inspector with his ...
... races , but early marriage is the rule , and unhappy results the general consequence . Leaving this marriage procession , we come across a procession by which the majesty of the law is vindi- cated . A police - inspector with his ...
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... must be given to the lower pro- vinces . But when we consider the people who inhabit the north , there is little doubt as to our bestowal of the palm . We are now among a manly race , A VIEW OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN INDIA . 45.
... must be given to the lower pro- vinces . But when we consider the people who inhabit the north , there is little doubt as to our bestowal of the palm . We are now among a manly race , A VIEW OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN INDIA . 45.
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... race , and many of the better class who pass us are stalwart and soldierly - looking men , who would become a military uniform well enough . Among the cultivators we see some who are undersized and in poor condition , but generally the ...
... race , and many of the better class who pass us are stalwart and soldierly - looking men , who would become a military uniform well enough . Among the cultivators we see some who are undersized and in poor condition , but generally the ...
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... race , but utterly untaught , untrusted , and uncared for . After a fashion , he is civil enough to this necessary feminine piece of household property , but he is no placens uxor of indulgence and consideration He will allow her to ...
... race , but utterly untaught , untrusted , and uncared for . After a fashion , he is civil enough to this necessary feminine piece of household property , but he is no placens uxor of indulgence and consideration He will allow her to ...
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... race - course as it could in Battersea fields . And the Anglo - Indian of the period did drink and fight his duel with as perfect satisfaction as though he had not been exiled from his native land . But there were many things that he ...
... race - course as it could in Battersea fields . And the Anglo - Indian of the period did drink and fight his duel with as perfect satisfaction as though he had not been exiled from his native land . But there were many things that he ...
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Life in India: A Series of Sketches Showing Something of the Anglo-Indian ... Sir Edward Braddon Visualização integral - 1872 |
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