The schemes that have been diligently framed and executed for promoting your material convenience and advance--schemes unsurpassed in their magnitude and their boldness--bear witness before the world to the zeal with which that benignant promise has been fulfilled.
Morley emphasizes the ambitious projects undertaken to enhance the welfare of India under British rule.
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What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.
The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.
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