 What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, according to the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood,...  Historical Essays of Macaulay - Page 263by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 394 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons,...sepoy to the armies of the Company. But as usurers, and moneychangers, as sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear a comparison with... | |
 | 1849 - 644 pages
...forgery, are the weapons offensive and defensive of this people — as usurers, as money changers, as sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear a comparison with them. But with all his softness, the Hindoo is by no means prone to pity, nor placable in his enmities."... | |
 | 1857 - 992 pages
...woman — deceit is to the Bengali. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons,...defensive, of the people of the lower Ganges. All these millions do not furnish one sepoy to the armies of the Company. But as usurers, as money-changers,... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - 1854 - 412 pages
...woman — deceit is to the Bengali. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons,...defensive, of the people of the lower Ganges. All these millions do not furnish one sepoy to the armies of the Company. But as usurers, as money-changers,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 354 pages
...woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons,...and defensive, of the people of the Lower Ganges. AH those millions do not furnish one sepoy to the armies of the Company. But as usurers, as money-changers,... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - 1854 - 410 pages
...Bengali. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, 263 perjury, forgery, are the weapons, offensive and defensive, of the people of the lower Ganges. All these millions do not furnish one sepoy to the armies of the Company. But as usurers, as money-changers,... | |
 | 1855 - 802 pages
...— deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons,...defensive, of the people of the lower Ganges. All these millions do not furnish one sepoy to the armies of the Company. But as usurers, as money changers,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1855 - 670 pages
...woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate, tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons,...and defensive, of the people of the Lower Ganges." Or this rapid resume of distinctive features: " — the feeble violence and shallow cunning of Louis... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 pages
...woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues ' of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons,...and defensive, of the people of the Lower Ganges." Or this rapid résumé of distinctive features : " — the feeble violence and shallow cunning of Louis... | |
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