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... prince and government of its own . British India was formerly ruled by the East India Company ; but in 1858 the government was transferred to the direct control of the British Crown . Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India , at ...
... prince and government of its own . British India was formerly ruled by the East India Company ; but in 1858 the government was transferred to the direct control of the British Crown . Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India , at ...
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... PRINCE OF WALES'S ISLAND . is a small island on the west coast of the Malay peninsula . Its length is about 14 miles ; breadth , 9 miles ; area , 107 square miles . Its population is about 60,000 . It produces spices , sugar - cane ...
... PRINCE OF WALES'S ISLAND . is a small island on the west coast of the Malay peninsula . Its length is about 14 miles ; breadth , 9 miles ; area , 107 square miles . Its population is about 60,000 . It produces spices , sugar - cane ...
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... Prince of Wales Land , Prince Albert Land , Banks ' Land , Melville I. , Bathurst I. , North Devon , Queen Charlotte's I. , Vancouver I. MOUNTAINS . The greater portion of the Dominion is flat . The principal mountains are in the west ...
... Prince of Wales Land , Prince Albert Land , Banks ' Land , Melville I. , Bathurst I. , North Devon , Queen Charlotte's I. , Vancouver I. MOUNTAINS . The greater portion of the Dominion is flat . The principal mountains are in the west ...
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... Prince Edward Island . Area , 2,100 square miles . Popu- lation , 95,000 . Capital , Charlotte - town . HISTORY . The following is a list of some of the most important events in the History of these possessions : — Canada is supposed to ...
... Prince Edward Island . Area , 2,100 square miles . Popu- lation , 95,000 . Capital , Charlotte - town . HISTORY . The following is a list of some of the most important events in the History of these possessions : — Canada is supposed to ...
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... Prince Edward Island in 1873 . Hudson's Bay Company . This great trading Company received a charter from Charles II . in 1670 , giving it the monopoly of trade in furs with the Indians of the country north and west of Hudson's Bay ...
... Prince Edward Island in 1873 . Hudson's Bay Company . This great trading Company received a charter from Charles II . in 1670 , giving it the monopoly of trade in furs with the Indians of the country north and west of Hudson's Bay ...
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Page 235 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them ; when I consider rival wits placed side by side ; or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes ; I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 235 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow : when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 235 - ... though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy, and can therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Page 233 - ... that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind.
Page 233 - ... buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind. I could not but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial of them, but that they were born, and that they died.
Page 215 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 234 - The inscription is answerable to the monument; for instead of celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed in the service of his country, it acquaints us only with the manner of his death, in which it was impossible for him to reap any honour.
Page 234 - Instead of the brave rough English admiral, which was the distinguishing character of that plain gallant man, he is represented on his tomb by the figure of a beau, dressed in a long periwig, and reposing himself upon velvet cushions, under a canopy of state.
Page 234 - I observed indeed that the present war had filled the church with many of these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean.
Page 233 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey: where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable.