Calcutta Review, Том 35University of Calcutta, 1860 |
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... able hatred of the English . He commenced his tyrannous reign by depriving his relatives of all the wealth which they had amassed during his Uncle's administration , and drove the latter's finance minister to Calcutta . Under the ...
... able hatred of the English . He commenced his tyrannous reign by depriving his relatives of all the wealth which they had amassed during his Uncle's administration , and drove the latter's finance minister to Calcutta . Under the ...
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... able to amass a fortune of a million , or half a mil- lion , in the space of two or three years , yet he will acquire a very handsome independency , and be in that very situation which ' a man of nice honor and true zeal for the service ...
... able to amass a fortune of a million , or half a mil- lion , in the space of two or three years , yet he will acquire a very handsome independency , and be in that very situation which ' a man of nice honor and true zeal for the service ...
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... able ; his substance is in this manner wasted , and the distress which follows to obvious and moving to need description . He They are unable to express what they feel in the discharge of their duty ; but the daily instances of the ...
... able ; his substance is in this manner wasted , and the distress which follows to obvious and moving to need description . He They are unable to express what they feel in the discharge of their duty ; but the daily instances of the ...
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... able to do to a young tea garden , is most serious , and hundreds of rupees have been spent only in the payment of coolies hired to kill them . The only other enemy the tea - plant has yet had to encounter in Cachar , is the Ooloo grass ...
... able to do to a young tea garden , is most serious , and hundreds of rupees have been spent only in the payment of coolies hired to kill them . The only other enemy the tea - plant has yet had to encounter in Cachar , is the Ooloo grass ...
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... able to ascertain , are simply different mixtures in varying proportions . To help our readers to form an estimate of the prospects held out by tea cultivation , they should know what the expenses of management and manufacture are . Let ...
... able to ascertain , are simply different mixtures in varying proportions . To help our readers to form an estimate of the prospects held out by tea cultivation , they should know what the expenses of management and manufacture are . Let ...
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Стр. 78 - To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Стр. 78 - I look at the geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines.
Стр. 400 - Anglo-Indian population, have led us to the conclusion that the time has now arrived for the establishment of universities in India, which may encourage a regular and liberal course of education, by conferring academical degrees as evidences of attainment in the different branches of art and science, and by adding marks of honour for those who may desire to compete for honorary distinction.
Стр. 81 - In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water.
Стр. 78 - ... the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real.
Стр. 72 - It has often- been asserted, but the assertion is incapable of proof, that the amount of variation under nature is a strictly limited quantity. Man, though acting on external characters alone and often capriciously, can produce within a short period a great result by adding up mere individual differences in his domestic productions ; and every one admits that species present individual differences.
Стр. 34 - I do not trust to Mr. Francis's promises of candour, convinced that he is incapable of it. I judge of his public conduct by his private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour.
Стр. 78 - ... if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed...
Стр. 413 - Bombay for the purpose of ascertaining, by means of examination, the persons who have acquired proficiency in different branches of Literature, Science, and Art, and of rewarding them by Academical Degrees as evidence of their respective attainments, and marks of honour proportioned thereunto...
Стр. 86 - To what natural or secondary causes the orderly succession and progression of such organic phenomena may have been committed, we are as yet ignorant. But if, without derogation to the Divine Power, we may conceive the existence of such ministers and personify them by the term Nature...