Bishop Heber: Poet and Chief Missionary to the East, Second Lord Bishop of Calcutta 1783-1826J. Murray, 1895 - 370 pages |
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afterwards Almora Amherst appearance Archdeacon attended beautiful believe Bengal Bishop Heber Bishop of Calcutta blessing Bombay Brahmanical Calcutta Cathedral Ceylon chaplain character Charlotte Christ Christian Knowledge Church Missionary Society Church of England circumstances clergy climate College congregation conversation Corrie dear dear Charlotte death delighted duty East Elphinstone Emily English European feel give Gospel Government Governor happy heard heart heathen Hindoos Hindostani Hodnet Hodnet Hall Holy honour hope hymns India interest journey Kanhéri kind labours Lady language letter London Lord Lord William Bentinck Madras Martyn minister Mission months morning Mountstuart Elphinstone Musalmans native never Oxford parish passed poor pray prayers preached present received RECTORY Reginald Heber residence schools seen Serampore sermon servants spirit station Sunday thank Thee Thornton Thou tion told Trichinopoly wife William write wrote
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Page 341 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Page 325 - God, who hast given us grace at this time, with one accord, to make our common supplications unto thee ; and dost promise, that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name, thou wilt grant their requests...
Page 2 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Page 188 - O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendant train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes, Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod, Our English Fairies never trod ! Yet who in Indian bower has stood, But thought on England's
Page 323 - Schwartz and his fifty years' labour among the Heathen, the extraordinary influence and popularity which he acquired, both with Mussulmans, Hindoos, and contending European governments, I need give you no account, except that my idea of him has been raised since I came into the south of India. I used to suspect that, with many admirable qualities, there was too great a mixture of intrigue in his character, that he was too much of a political prophet, and that the veneration which the heathen paid,...
Page 22 - Heber's recitation, like that of all poets whom we have heard recite, was altogether untrammelled by the critical laws of elocution, which were not set at defiance, but either by the poet unknown or forgotten; and there was a charm in his somewhat melancholy voice...
Page 325 - Christians were eligible to all the different offices of state— while now there is an order of Government against their being admitted to any employment !* .Surely we are, in matters of religion, the most lukewarm and cowardly people on the face of the earth...
Page 184 - O'er broad Hindostan's sultry meads, o'er bleak Almorah's hill. That course, nor Delhi's kingly gates, nor wild Malwah detain, For sweet the bliss us both awaits by yonder western main. Thy towers, Bombay, gleam bright, they say, across the dark blue sea, But ne'er were hearts so light and gay as then shall meet in thee...
Page 325 - Thee we shall break through them all, And sing the song of Moses. 4 By faith we see the glory To which Thou shalt restore us ; The cross despise for that high prize Which Thou hast set before us: And if Thou count us worthy, We each, as dying Stephen, Shall see Thee stand at God's right hand, 250 To take us up to heaven.
Page 157 - Calcutta, when seen from the south, on which side it is built round two sides of a great open plain, with the Ganges on the west, is a very noble city, with tall and stately houses ornamented with Grecian pillars, and each, for the most part, surrounded by a little apology for a garden.