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" The poor deluded sensualist, whose life has been passed in abominable practices, or the covetous usurer who has made himself rich by a long course of hard-fisted extortion, or the fanatical devotee, fool, and murderer, more simple than a babe, yet guilty... "
From Calcutta to the Snowy range. By an old Indian (F.F.W.). - Page 47
by Frederick F. Wyman - 1866
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Calcutta Review, Volume 40

1864 - 502 pages
...devotee, fool and murderer, more simple than a babe, yet guilty of the foulest crimes, still conies as of old from the remotest corners of India, as the...hallowed soil, his anxious spirit becomes suddenly calm, a strange sense of relief comes over him, and he is at once cheered and comforted with the treacherous...
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Calcutta Review, Volume 40

1864 - 508 pages
...guilty of the foulest crimes, still \as of old from the remotest corners of India, as the sandtime are slowly ebbing away, and fearful lest the golden...should be snapped before his long journey is ended, he mai. desperate efforts to hold on his eourse, until, arriving at ; sacred city and touching its hallowed...
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Modern Hinduism: Being an Account of the Religion and Life of the Hindus in ...

William Joseph Wilkins - 1887 - 522 pages
...poor deluded sensualist, whose life has been passed in abominable practices, or the covetous usurer who has made himself rich by a long course of hard-fisted...hallowed soil, his anxious spirit becomes suddenly calm, a strange sense of relief comes over him, and he is at once cheered and comforted with the treacherous...
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Modern Hinduism: Being an Account of the Religion and Life of the Hindus in ...

William Joseph Wilkins - 1887 - 548 pages
...poor deluded sensualist, whose life has been passed in abominable practices, or the covetous usurer who has made himself rich by a long course of hard-fisted...hallowed soil, his anxious spirit becomes suddenly calm, a strange sense of relief comes over him, aud he is at once cheered and comforted with the treacherous...
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Banaras, City of Light

Diana L. Eck - 1999 - 460 pages
...Hindus. Note both voices in his portrayal of the aging pilgrim making his way to Banaras: . . . [He comes] as of old, from the remotest corners of India,...time are slowly ebbing away, and, fearful lest the last golden grains should escape before his long journey is ended, makes desperate efforts to hold...
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