The History of British India, Volume 1Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817 - 777 pages |
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... . This infirmity of the human mind , a fact of great importance , both in speculation and in action , the reader , who is not already acquainted with it , will find very b VOL . I. A history of India , therefore , to be good PREFACE . ix.
... . This infirmity of the human mind , a fact of great importance , both in speculation and in action , the reader , who is not already acquainted with it , will find very b VOL . I. A history of India , therefore , to be good PREFACE . ix.
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... Human Mind . See p . 385 , vol . i . of the present work . Many examples of it will present themselves in the course of this history ; for as it is a habit peculiarly congenial to the mental state of the natives , so a combination of ...
... Human Mind . See p . 385 , vol . i . of the present work . Many examples of it will present themselves in the course of this history ; for as it is a habit peculiarly congenial to the mental state of the natives , so a combination of ...
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... human nature . From this we shall see , that a cursory view , of the nature of that which is here described , is a process , in the highest degree effec- tual , not for removing error , and perfecting knowledge , but for strengthening ...
... human nature . From this we shall see , that a cursory view , of the nature of that which is here described , is a process , in the highest degree effec- tual , not for removing error , and perfecting knowledge , but for strengthening ...
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... human nature , which is the end , as well as instrument , of every thing . It is plain , that he requires the most perfect comprehension of the principles of human society ; or the course , into which the laws of human nature impel the ...
... human nature , which is the end , as well as instrument , of every thing . It is plain , that he requires the most perfect comprehension of the principles of human society ; or the course , into which the laws of human nature impel the ...
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... human mind , had , in this country , at- tained a sufficient elevation to make a book be received as useful , if it was really useful , though it neither exaggerated , nor extenuated , the good , or the evil , of any man , or ...
... human mind , had , in this country , at- tained a sufficient elevation to make a book be received as useful , if it was really useful , though it neither exaggerated , nor extenuated , the good , or the evil , of any man , or ...
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Page 184 - The inhabitants give themselves no trouble about the breaking up and divisions of kingdoms; while the village remains entire, they care not to what power it is transferred or to what sovereign it devolves; its internal economy remains unchanged...
Page 110 - Brahman springs to light, he is born above the world, the chief of all creatures, assigned to guard the treasury of duties, religious and 1 " Institutes,
Page 197 - The waters are called nara, because they were the production of NARA, or the Spirit of God', and, since they were his first ay ana, or place of motion, he thence is named NARAYANA, or moving on the waters.
Page 197 - ... then the sole self-existing power, himself undiscerned, but making this world discernible, with five elements and other principles of nature, appeared with undiminished glory, expanding his idea, or dispelling the gloom. He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person.
Page 73 - He told Mr. Vaux roundly that he expected his orders were to be his rules, and not the laws of England, which were a heap of nonsense, compiled by a few ignorant country gentlemen, who hardly knew how to make laws for the good government of their own private families, much less for the regulating of companies and foreign commerce.
Page 183 - ... politically viewed it resembles a corporation or township. Its proper establishment of officers and servants consists of the following descriptions: the potail, or head inhabitant, who has...
Page 176 - Agriculturae non student; majorque pars eorum victus in lacte, caseo, carne consistit; neque quisquam agri modum certum aut fines habet proprios ; sed magistratus ac principes in annos singulos gentibus cognationibusque hominum qui una coierunt, quantum et quo loco visum est agri attribuunt atque anno post alio transire cogunt.
Page 198 - He gave being to time and the divisions of time, to the stars also, and to the planets, to rivers, oceans, and mountains, to level plains, and uneven valleys.
Page 235 - We must not be surprised," he says, " at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern Varanes [Benares] mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways and by a multitude of fanciful names.
Page 380 - ... be lunacy), but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending that it has no essence independent of mental perception, that existence and perceptibility are convertible terms, that external appearances and sensations are illusory and would vanish into nothing if the divine energy, which alone sustains them, were suspended but for a moment...