The Project Gutenberg eBook of Notes on Noses, by Eden Warwick

57. India.—England holds in subjection one hundred millions of heathens and idolaters. India is at once our glory and our shame. Though we have been masters there for nearly a century, little has yet been done towards the Christianizing of that mighty empire.—Appeal of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1848.

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P. 7, changed “This a drawback which we feel greatly” to “This is a drawback which we feel greatly”.
P. 73, changed “they turn their tales round” to “they turn their tails round”.
P. 149, changed “lest in should foment a war” to “lest it should foment a war”.
Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.
Footnotes were re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.