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Page ix
... fact that very decided opinions have been held by many of our countrymen as to the morality of these China wars ; that whilst all have felt that outrages had been committed upon the English flag , and upon the persons and property of ...
... fact that very decided opinions have been held by many of our countrymen as to the morality of these China wars ; that whilst all have felt that outrages had been committed upon the English flag , and upon the persons and property of ...
Page xvi
... fact which is here stated , well known to the whole Anglo - Indian community , and intimately so to one holding the official position which Colonel Mountain did . True , he was a Queen's officer , but that he was influenced in his ...
... fact which is here stated , well known to the whole Anglo - Indian community , and intimately so to one holding the official position which Colonel Mountain did . True , he was a Queen's officer , but that he was influenced in his ...
Page xvii
... fact ; that almost every lady in Bombay had better oppor- tunities than she had to observe both European and native habits of life and conversation , unless indeed she had chosen to adopt the Harun Al Raschid policy , and to mingle with ...
... fact ; that almost every lady in Bombay had better oppor- tunities than she had to observe both European and native habits of life and conversation , unless indeed she had chosen to adopt the Harun Al Raschid policy , and to mingle with ...
Page xix
... fact that these two gentlemen were not " old Indians . " We question whether , even in our most " benighted " days , the most thorough specimen of the " country - bottled " class would have so far gloried in his shame , as to confess ...
... fact that these two gentlemen were not " old Indians . " We question whether , even in our most " benighted " days , the most thorough specimen of the " country - bottled " class would have so far gloried in his shame , as to confess ...
Page xxi
... fact a more elegant version of the allegory which produced so beneficial an effect , when told in old days on the Mons Sacer ; or it is an illustration of the Christian precept , " They that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of ...
... fact a more elegant version of the allegory which produced so beneficial an effect , when told in old days on the Mons Sacer ; or it is an illustration of the Christian precept , " They that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of ...
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Page 93 - When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me, Until I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood I their end.
Page 94 - Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay. There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother- — he their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday...
Page 94 - He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eyes Were with his heart, 'and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Daci.an mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday! — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 156 - How best to help the slender store, How mend the dwellings, of the poor; How gain in life, as life advances, Valour and charity more and more.
Page xxiv - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Page 331 - On the first day of April, and thereafter monthly, each Division, Camp, or Post Commander shall report to the Adjutant General of the Army, for the information of the Chief of Staff...
Page 93 - For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men ; neither are they plagued like other men.
Page 68 - tis positive Negation! COLOGNE. IN Kohln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches ; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks ! Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne ; But tell me, Nymphs ! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTUR SAME CITY.
Page 430 - ... a system which tends, more than any thing else the Devil has yet invented, to destroy the feelings of general benevolence, and to make nine-tenths of mankind the hopeless slaves of the remainder ; and in the total absence of any popular system of morals, or any single lesson which the people at large ever hear, to live virtuously and do good to each other.
Page 387 - He now repeats that declaration, and he emphatically proclaims that the government of India entertains no desire to interfere with their religion or caste, and that nothing has been, or will be done by the government to affect the free exercise of the observances of religion or caste by every class of the people. The government of India...