Hindu Superiority: An Attempt to Determine the Position of the Hindu Race in the Scale of NationsRajputana Printing Works, 1906 - 454 pages |
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... Nature.- Viman Vidya . - A complete science . - Sarpa Vidya . - Electricity and Magnetism . - Philosophy of sleep .-- Aureole round the heads of Hindu gods ... ... 366 ... 375 ARTS . I. - ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE . Hindu architecture ...
... Nature.- Viman Vidya . - A complete science . - Sarpa Vidya . - Electricity and Magnetism . - Philosophy of sleep .-- Aureole round the heads of Hindu gods ... ... 366 ... 375 ARTS . I. - ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE . Hindu architecture ...
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... Nature herself ordained that this magnificent country , with a climate varied and salubrious , a soil the most fertile in the world , animal and plant life the most abundant , useful and diversified to be found anywhere on the face of ...
... Nature herself ordained that this magnificent country , with a climate varied and salubrious , a soil the most fertile in the world , animal and plant life the most abundant , useful and diversified to be found anywhere on the face of ...
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... Nature , India even now is most picturesque , and is the most interesting country in the world . Count Bjornst- jerna says : " But everything is peculiar , grand , and romantic in India - from the steelclad knight of Rajas- than to the ...
... Nature , India even now is most picturesque , and is the most interesting country in the world . Count Bjornst- jerna says : " But everything is peculiar , grand , and romantic in India - from the steelclad knight of Rajas- than to the ...
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... nature can bestow - in some parts a very paradise on earth - I should point to India . If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully deve- loped some of its choicest gifts , has most deeply ponder- ed on the greatest ...
... nature can bestow - in some parts a very paradise on earth - I should point to India . If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully deve- loped some of its choicest gifts , has most deeply ponder- ed on the greatest ...
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... both of Nature and Art . " -- Encyclopædia Britannica , p . 446 , 2 Chapters of the British History of India , 3 Tod's Rajasthan , pp . 608 , 609 . A writer in the Edinburgh Review for October 1872 , xxviii . INTRODUCTION .
... both of Nature and Art . " -- Encyclopædia Britannica , p . 446 , 2 Chapters of the British History of India , 3 Tod's Rajasthan , pp . 608 , 609 . A writer in the Edinburgh Review for October 1872 , xxviii . INTRODUCTION .
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Page xxv - I should point to India. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which will deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant — I should point to India.
Page 426 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 297 - In the whole world there is no study, except that of the originals, so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
Page xxv - Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.
Page 39 - ... each other, and above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a...
Page 365 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Page 160 - The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Page 19 - The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything that they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations.
Page 90 - O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works ! creature, in whom excell'd Whatever can to sight or thought be form'd, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!
Page 323 - Guido, with a burnt stick in his hand, demonstrating on the smooth paving-stones of the path, that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.