An Essay on the Best Means of Civilising the Subjects of the British Empire in India, and of Diffusing the Light of the Christian Religion Throughout the Eastern World |
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... Progress already made - Preliminary Considerations - Plans detailed , Page 165 2. Advantages possessed by the British in India for diffusing the Light of the Gospel throughout other Eastern Countries - Encouraging Circumstances in the ...
... Progress already made - Preliminary Considerations - Plans detailed , Page 165 2. Advantages possessed by the British in India for diffusing the Light of the Gospel throughout other Eastern Countries - Encouraging Circumstances in the ...
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... progress , two extremes are to be avoided . There appears on either hand a fatal rock , which it behoves the political navigator to shun with steady aim . On the one side , by grasping at too much we might lose the comfort , if not the ...
... progress , two extremes are to be avoided . There appears on either hand a fatal rock , which it behoves the political navigator to shun with steady aim . On the one side , by grasping at too much we might lose the comfort , if not the ...
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... progress . By reason of a revolution , not unexampled indeed in the history of mankind , but attended in this case with circumstances of peculiarity , the civilisation of Hin- dostan admits of a retrospective consideration . An elegant ...
... progress . By reason of a revolution , not unexampled indeed in the history of mankind , but attended in this case with circumstances of peculiarity , the civilisation of Hin- dostan admits of a retrospective consideration . An elegant ...
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... progress will have been made in the first and most necessary of all human occupations . This is the fact . Nothing can be more imperfect than the state of agriculture throughout Hindostan : nothing more rude and inefficient than the ...
... progress will have been made in the first and most necessary of all human occupations . This is the fact . Nothing can be more imperfect than the state of agriculture throughout Hindostan : nothing more rude and inefficient than the ...
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... progress the Indians may have formerly made Elegant arts . in the culture of some of the fine arts , ( which appears from authentic documents to have been considerable ) .they are at present as unskilful in these , as in others of a ...
... progress the Indians may have formerly made Elegant arts . in the culture of some of the fine arts , ( which appears from authentic documents to have been considerable ) .they are at present as unskilful in these , as in others of a ...
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“An” essay on the best means of civilising the subjects of the British ... John Mitchell No preview available - 1805 |
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