The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australia, Volume 17Parbury, Allen, and Company, 1824 - Asia |
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... promoting among them a fa- miliar intercourse with other classes ; the government of Lord Hastings un- ostentatiously wrought so surprizing an alteration in this extensive tract . The same author and actor to whom we have just referred ...
... promoting among them a fa- miliar intercourse with other classes ; the government of Lord Hastings un- ostentatiously wrought so surprizing an alteration in this extensive tract . The same author and actor to whom we have just referred ...
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... promotion zealous he may be , before he can ar- which has for many years prevailed rive at the rank of Colonel , Lieute- in the Indian army ; by which means nant - Colonel , or Major , loses those King's service , when compared to the ...
... promotion zealous he may be , before he can ar- which has for many years prevailed rive at the rank of Colonel , Lieute- in the Indian army ; by which means nant - Colonel , or Major , loses those King's service , when compared to the ...
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... promotion in some degree , I can devise no other means than trenching , to a limited extent , upon the Off- Reckoning Fund , and ... promoted to the colonelcies of regiments ; and the Majors pro- moted on those occasions to lieute- nant ...
... promotion in some degree , I can devise no other means than trenching , to a limited extent , upon the Off- Reckoning Fund , and ... promoted to the colonelcies of regiments ; and the Majors pro- moted on those occasions to lieute- nant ...
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... promotion , or some adventitious turn in the service ; all which might be prevented if some liberal addition were made to their incomes . I honestly confess that I can see no just reason why a General Officer , as Colonel of a regiment ...
... promotion , or some adventitious turn in the service ; all which might be prevented if some liberal addition were made to their incomes . I honestly confess that I can see no just reason why a General Officer , as Colonel of a regiment ...
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... promotion of such branches of natural history as are connected with it . They embrace , in short , the whole range of me- dical pursuits , and whatever bears the most distant relation to these will be considered as a fit matter of ...
... promotion of such branches of natural history as are connected with it . They embrace , in short , the whole range of me- dical pursuits , and whatever bears the most distant relation to these will be considered as a fit matter of ...
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Page 159 - Tippoona until evening ; and, as we were preparing to return to the ship, we were drawn to that part of the beach where the prisoners were, by the most doleful cries and lamentations. Here was the interesting young slave in a situation that ought to have softened the heart of the most unfeeling. " The man who had slain her father, having cut off his head, and preserved it by a process peculiar to these islanders, took it out of a basket where it had hitherto been concealed, and threw it into the...
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