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Page ix
... thing for a man to enter an army , and a right thing for an army to be maintained , the responsibility of wrong- doing on a great scale , such as we sometimes see , rests not with sub- ordinates , but with those at the head of affairs ...
... thing for a man to enter an army , and a right thing for an army to be maintained , the responsibility of wrong- doing on a great scale , such as we sometimes see , rests not with sub- ordinates , but with those at the head of affairs ...
Page x
... thing for the sake of humanity to refrain from going to war with America , but every man knows that if America had been a third or fourth - rate power , the insults which of late she has haughtily heaped upon England , would have been ...
... thing for the sake of humanity to refrain from going to war with America , but every man knows that if America had been a third or fourth - rate power , the insults which of late she has haughtily heaped upon England , would have been ...
Page xvi
... things in Bengal particularly needs revi ' sion . An officer perhaps after eighteen years ' service in the com- ' missariat , or other civil department , on promotion , or on return from sick furlough , falls back on his regiment as ...
... things in Bengal particularly needs revi ' sion . An officer perhaps after eighteen years ' service in the com- ' missariat , or other civil department , on promotion , or on return from sick furlough , falls back on his regiment as ...
Page xviii
... think that she acts wisely . When she has any thing to say , however , she is not afraid to speak out . The following portraiture of two veterans might have found an appropriate place in the Delhi Sketch - xviii MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES .
... think that she acts wisely . When she has any thing to say , however , she is not afraid to speak out . The following portraiture of two veterans might have found an appropriate place in the Delhi Sketch - xviii MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES .
Page xx
... things we all know about at a distance . Some men make quick and amusing observations in their song , the rest answer , as it were , or acknowledge their merit together in chorus . " When very tired , we walk up and down each other's ...
... things we all know about at a distance . Some men make quick and amusing observations in their song , the rest answer , as it were , or acknowledge their merit together in chorus . " When very tired , we walk up and down each other's ...
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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...