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... administration of the country : but the little varieties of costume and ferocity , which distinguish these provincial * 6 hordes , hordes , are little adapted for European attention . Excellent 16 Elphinstone's Account of Caubul .
... administration of the country : but the little varieties of costume and ferocity , which distinguish these provincial * 6 hordes , hordes , are little adapted for European attention . Excellent 16 Elphinstone's Account of Caubul .
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hordes , are little adapted for European attention . Excellent coloured engravings illustrate the descriptions of the text ; and an account , at p . 432 , 433 ,, of the antiquities of Ghuznee forms a very interesting episode . Book iv ...
hordes , are little adapted for European attention . Excellent coloured engravings illustrate the descriptions of the text ; and an account , at p . 432 , 433 ,, of the antiquities of Ghuznee forms a very interesting episode . Book iv ...
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... attention on any particular passage of importance , " such as the description of Mecca , and to observe with what insignificant details and ill - judged remarks the subject is en- . cumbered . What are we to think of a writer who ...
... attention on any particular passage of importance , " such as the description of Mecca , and to observe with what insignificant details and ill - judged remarks the subject is en- . cumbered . What are we to think of a writer who ...
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... attention of our readers , and of the present author's readers , for one moment . No news - paper , no Sunday - news - paper , put into unpremeditated and immediate blank verse , by any one of the numerous English improvisatori now ...
... attention of our readers , and of the present author's readers , for one moment . No news - paper , no Sunday - news - paper , put into unpremeditated and immediate blank verse , by any one of the numerous English improvisatori now ...
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... attention . " Though the preceding biographical notices would , without any further observations , furnish the attentive observer with a correct outline of this Prince's character , yet the delineation of his moral qualities is wanting ...
... attention . " Though the preceding biographical notices would , without any further observations , furnish the attentive observer with a correct outline of this Prince's character , yet the delineation of his moral qualities is wanting ...
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