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  • The persons sent out from this country for the administration of India are called Covenanted Civilians, as they bear a commission from the Queen; while those engaged for administrative work by the Indian Government are called Uncovenanted.

    Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 James Kennedy 1857

  • Indian politicians, and it is to qualify for and to hold such positions that the Indian Civil Service -- formerly the "Covenanted" service -- is maintained.

    Indian Unrest Valentine Chirol 1890

  • As far back as 1879 Lord Lytton laid down rules which gave to natives of India one-sixth of the appointments until then reserved for the "Covenanted" service, and we have certainly not yet reached the limit of the number of Indians who may ultimately with advantage be employed in the different branches of the public service; but few who know the defects as well as the good qualities of the native will deny that to reduce hastily the European leaven in any department would be to jeopardize its moral as well as its administrative efficiency.

    Indian Unrest Valentine Chirol 1890

  • True Christianity cordially bids people turn to Christ, it does not seek their destruction, least of all the Ancient Covenanted People by whom all the standards of civilisation flowed. ahad ha'amoratsim

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • True Christianity cordially bids people turn to Christ, it does not seek their destruction, least of all the Ancient Covenanted People by whom all the standards of civilisation flowed. ahad ha'amoratsim

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • They would listen to no proposal for re-establishing the Solemn League and Covenant; and those who had expected to find in King William a zealous Covenanted Monarch, were grievously disappointed when he intimated, with the phlegm peculiar to his country, his intention to tolerate all forms of religion which were consistent with the safety of the State.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • You have life with me, a place in the Covenanted Community, and hope for the future.

    The God of the Towel Jim McGuiggan 1997

  • You have life with me, a place in the Covenanted Community, and hope for the future.

    The God of the Towel Jim McGuiggan 1997

  • The descendants of the Covenanted fathers have erected many memorials in the places made sacred with the blood of the martyrs.

    Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters

  • The Scottish fathers evidently regarded Covenanted union as the normal relation existing between God and man, God and the Church, God and all the nations.

    Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters

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