Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, (with Notes Upon Ceylon,) an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India, Volume 1J. Murray, 1828 |
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... animals as a constant succession of alarms , and rendered miserable by fear , have never , I con- ceive , seen them in their mirth , or considered those natural feelings of health and hilarity which seem to lead all creatures to exert ...
... animals as a constant succession of alarms , and rendered miserable by fear , have never , I con- ceive , seen them in their mirth , or considered those natural feelings of health and hilarity which seem to lead all creatures to exert ...
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... animals that they are always pursued by the bonito . July 8. - The sun was now fairly to the north of us , and our ... animal was found in this condition shortly after . He protested his innocence , and said the sheep hàd thrown down a ...
... animals that they are always pursued by the bonito . July 8. - The sun was now fairly to the north of us , and our ... animal was found in this condition shortly after . He protested his innocence , and said the sheep hàd thrown down a ...
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... animal in its short flights . This , how- ever , was , as we were assured , a very small speci- men , not exceeding the size of a small sparling or smelt . July 13. - We had divine service on deck this morning . A large shoal of ...
... animal in its short flights . This , how- ever , was , as we were assured , a very small speci- men , not exceeding the size of a small sparling or smelt . July 13. - We had divine service on deck this morning . A large shoal of ...
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... animals , which were supposed to be two old ones with one or more young ; and rejoiced that no southern whaler was in sight . While we were gazing at these leviathans , one of the midshipmen caught a sea - bird on a hook ; it was said ...
... animals , which were supposed to be two old ones with one or more young ; and rejoiced that no southern whaler was in sight . While we were gazing at these leviathans , one of the midshipmen caught a sea - bird on a hook ; it was said ...
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... animal food to the Hindoos . It is not from any abstract desire to spare the life of living creatures , since fish would be a violation of this principle as well as beef ; but from other notions of the hallowed or the polluted nature of ...
... animal food to the Hindoos . It is not from any abstract desire to spare the life of living creatures , since fish would be a violation of this principle as well as beef ; but from other notions of the hallowed or the polluted nature of ...
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Page 240 - O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, When, on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs I lay, And woo the cooler wind. I miss thee when by Gunga's stream My twilight steps I guide, But most beneath the lamp's pale beam, I miss thee from my side.
Page 246 - With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes, Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod, Our English fairies never trod ; Yet who in Indian bow'r has stood, But thought on England's
Page 234 - To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 374 - ... from me what few pice I had ; but it was a drop of water in the ocean, and the importunities of the rest, as we advanced into the city, were almost drowned in the hubbub which surrounded us. Such are the sights and sounds which greet a stranger on entering this
Page 374 - ... from every part of India, as well as from Tibet and the Birman empire, a great multitude of rich individuals in the decline of life, and almost all the great men who are from time to time disgraced or banished from home by the revolutions which are continually occurring in the Hindoo states, come hither to wash away their sins, or to fill up their vacant hours with the gaudy ceremonies of their religion, and really give away great sums in profuse and indiscriminate charity.
Page 241 - But when of morn and eve the star beholds me on my knee, I feel, though thou art distant far, thy prayers ascend for me. Then on ! then on ! where duty leads, my course be onward still.
Page 247 - The shrill cigala strikes his lyre. And what is she whose liquid strain Thrills through yon copse of sugar-cane? I know that soul-entrancing swell ! It is — it...
Page 241 - That course, nor Delhi's kingly gates, Nor wild Malwah detain, For sweet the bliss us both awaits By yonder western main. ' Thy towers, Bombay, gleam bright, they say, Across the dark blue sea, But ne'er were hearts so light and gay As then shall meet in thee...
Page 37 - ... a badge of royalty. I was amused by one peculiarity, which I had never before heard of; while the elephant is going on, a man walks by his side, telling him where to tread, bidding him " take care,"—" step out," warning him that the road is rough, slippery, &c.
Page 69 - ... years to operate in, it is not easy to fix any limits to their power. I am inclined, after all, to suspect that our European vanity leads us astray in supposing that our own is the primitive complexion, which I should rather suppose was that of the Indian...