Confessions of a ThugK. Paul, Trench, Truebner, 1873 - 452 стор. |
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... once said to me , " Ah ! sir , if I had not been in prison twelve years , the number would have been a thousand ! " How the system of Thuggee * could have become so prevalent , - unknown to , and unsuspected by , the people of India ...
... once said to me , " Ah ! sir , if I had not been in prison twelve years , the number would have been a thousand ! " How the system of Thuggee * could have become so prevalent , - unknown to , and unsuspected by , the people of India ...
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... Once awakened to the necessity of suppressing , by the most vigorous measures , the dreadful system only just detected in its operation , the officers who were first appointed to investigate the re- ports and accusations of the ...
... Once awakened to the necessity of suppressing , by the most vigorous measures , the dreadful system only just detected in its operation , the officers who were first appointed to investigate the re- ports and accusations of the ...
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... once be seen what enormous provinces or divisions of India fall to the super- intendence of each * person . Whether it is possible for each to ex- tend to every part of that under his charge the extreme attention and scrutiny which are ...
... once be seen what enormous provinces or divisions of India fall to the super- intendence of each * person . Whether it is possible for each to ex- tend to every part of that under his charge the extreme attention and scrutiny which are ...
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... once gained a place in the public mind . No attempt , except in " Pandurang Hari , " published anonymously in 1826 , and recently reproduced by Messrs . Henry S. King & Co. , had ever been made to depict , in a familiar or dramatic ...
... once gained a place in the public mind . No attempt , except in " Pandurang Hari , " published anonymously in 1826 , and recently reproduced by Messrs . Henry S. King & Co. , had ever been made to depict , in a familiar or dramatic ...
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... once redoubtable leaders , as had before , and for centuries , traversed every highway of every province of India with a degree of horrible success and triumph which has no parallel that I know of in the history of crime . When the ...
... once redoubtable leaders , as had before , and for centuries , traversed every highway of every province of India with a degree of horrible success and triumph which has no parallel that I know of in the history of crime . When the ...
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