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Jita carried a kind of text referred to as a dastur al-amal or regulation on the subject of brokerage that was signed by Abd al-Rahman. 21 Even the tribal maliks or chiefs in Qandahar province, the majority of whom were Durranis and therefore ethnic affiliates and political favorites of Abd al-Rahman, were subjected to the new forms of state-paper oppression.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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The Proclamation is not an "Abolition" state-paper.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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There it received praise as an able and temperate state-paper.
The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene
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"Agricultural Biography" of Mr. Donaldson, who seems disposed to give a sheltering wing to the curious theory broached, and discourses upon it with a lucidity and coherence worthy of a state-paper.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various
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_Wali-al-ahd, _ or heir-presumptive -- the deed of nomination is given at length by Al-Makkari, and is a curious specimen of a state-paper.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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Spanish ballad is as valuable an illustration as a Madrid state-paper; while the life of Harry Vane vindicates the Puritan nature as clearly as the letter of a Venetian ambassador exhibits the domestic life of a
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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Accordingly, setting out from the mote-and-pebble extreme, you find, that, up to a certain point, increasing values of thought are commonly indicated by increasing gravity, by more and more of state-paper weightiness; but beyond this the rule is reversed, and lightness becomes the sign and measure of excellence.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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The members nobly met this demand by returning to the Governor (July 15, 1769) a grandly worded state-paper, in which, claiming the rights of freeborn
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various
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The country is going through a trial more crucial, if possible, than that of the Revolution; but no state-paper has thus far appeared, comparable in anything but quantity to the documents of our heroic period.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various
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This state-paper, which was read the world over, represented the people of
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various
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