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Mr. Nesfield remarks [195] that the special industry of the Manihars of the United Provinces is the making of glass bangles or bracelets.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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The Mahomedans form only a minority of about one-sixth of the population, but their influence must not be measured merely by numbers, for one of the distinctive features of the United Provinces is the survival of a great landed aristocracy in which the Mahomedans are largely represented.
India, Old and New Valentine Chirol 1890
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They alone supplied Europe with the productions of the Spice Islands, and the gold, pearls, and jewels of the East all passed through their hands; and in the middle of the seventeenth century the United Provinces were the first commercial and the first maritime power in the world.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853
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In brief, the constitution of the United Provinces was a matter of fact.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The war navy of the United Provinces was a regular force of one hundred ships -- large at a period when a vessel of thirteen hundred tons was a monster -- together with an indefinite number of smaller craft, which could be put into the public service on short notice?
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The war navy of the United Provinces was a regular force of one hundred ships -- large at a period when a vessel of thirteen hundred tons was a monster -- together with an indefinite number of smaller craft, which could be put into the public service on short notice?
History of the United Netherlands, 1590a John Lothrop Motley 1845
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In brief, the constitution of the United Provinces was a matter of fact.
History of the United Netherlands, 1587b John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The war navy of the United Provinces was a regular force of one hundred ships -- large at a period when a vessel of thirteen hundred tons was a monster -- together with an indefinite number of smaller craft, which could be put into the public service on short notice?
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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It was soon to be mooted vigorously and passionately whether the United Provinces were a confederacy or a union; a league of sovereign and independent states bound together by treaty for certain specified purposes or an incorporated whole.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610c-12 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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It was soon to be mooted vigorously and passionately whether the United Provinces were a confederacy or a union; a league of sovereign and independent states bound together by treaty for certain specified purposes or an incorporated whole.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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