India in 1880, Part 25J. Murray, 1880 - 524 pages |
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Page 466 - After stating the general concurrence in the outline of the plan submitted, the despatch laid down that the sound principle for regulating the issue of a paper circulation is that which was enforced on the Bank of England by the Act of 1844, ie that the amount of notes issued on Government securities should be maintained at a fixed sum, within the limit of the smallest amount which experience has proved to be necessary for the monetary transactions of the country ; and that any further amount of...
Page ix - The humble toiling Sudra; * here a throng Gathered to watch some chattering snake-tamer Wind round his wrist the living jewellery Of asp and nag, or charm the hooded death To angry dance with drone of beaded gourd; There a long line of drums and horns, which went, With steeds gay painted and silk canopies, To bring the young bride home; and here a wife Stealing with cakes and garlands to the god...
Page 502 - But soon — before the jungle-cock crows twice — A white verge clear, a widening, brightening white, High as the herald-star, which fades in floods Of silver, warming into pale gold, caught By topmost clouds, and flaming on their rims To fervent golden glow, flushed from the brink With saffron, scarlet, crimson, amethyst; Whereat the sky burns splendid to the blue, And, robed in raiment of glad light, the King Of Life and Glory cometh!
Page 159 - STREETS. LOVING THEM WHILE YET UNLOVELY, SHE SO FORMED THEM TO THE FAIR AND GOOD AS TO INSPIRE OTHERS WITH HER FAITH AND HOPE, AND THUS LED THE WAY TO A NATIONAL SYSTEM OF MORAL RESCUE AND PREVENTIVE DISCIPLINE. TAKING ALSO TO HEART THE GRIEVOUS LOT OF ORIENTAL WOMEN, IN THE LAST DECADE OF HER LIFE SHE FOUR TIMES WENT TO INDIA, AND AWAKENED AN ACTIVE INTEREST IN THEIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR SERIOUS DUTIES.
Page 484 - But any native of India who does not trade or own land, and who chooses to drink no spirituous liquor or to use no English cloth or iron, need pay in taxation only about Id.
Page 484 - English cloth or iron, need pay in taxation only about 7d. a year on account of the salt he consumes personally; and on a family of three persons the charge amounts to Is. 9d., or about four days' wages of a labouring man and his wife.
Page 498 - The native character, as a whole, may be disparaged by some whose experience is short, and whose knowledge is not profound. But with an Englishman who lives and labours in the country, the wider his acquaintance with the natives and the deeper his insight, the greater is his liking for them. He who has the best and longest acquaintance with the natives esteems them the most. Probably every Englishman without...
Page 298 - ... the sal ; and greatest of all, the teak. To these should be added the palms, including the feathery date-palm, the palmyra with its fan-like leaves, and the betel-nut palm. The lesser products of the forests, such as myro-balans, and other articles, are also considerable. " Many believe that the rainfall is copious and seasonable or otherwise, according as the woods and forests, and the vegetation subsidiary to them, are preserved or destroyed, while others disbelieve this view, which at all...
Page 502 - In keen unravelling of the threads of thought And steadfast pacing of life's labyrinths. Thus would he sit till midnight hushed the world, Save where the beasts of darkness in the brake Crept and cried out, as fear and hatred cry, As lust and avarice and anger creep In the black jungles of man's ignorance. Then slept he for what space the fleet moon asks To swim a tenth part of her cloudy sea; But rose ere the False-dawn, and stood again Wistful on some dark platform of his...
Page ix - ... huge stone wheels, The strong slow oxen and their rustling loads, The singing bearers with the palanquins, The broad-necked hamals sweating in the sun, The housewives bearing water from the well With balanced chatties, and athwart their hips The black-eyed babes; the fly-swarmed sweetmeat shops, The weaver at his loom, the cotton-bow Twanging, the millstones grinding meal, the dogs Prowling for orts, the skilful armourer With tong and hammer linking shirts of mail, The blacksmith with a mattock...