Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825: (With Notes Upon Ceylon,) an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India, Volume 1Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829 |
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... English , and said he was a Sircar , * come down in quest of employment , if any of the officers on board would intrust their invest- ments to him , or if any body chose to borrow money at 12 per cent . In appearance and manners he was ...
... English , and said he was a Sircar , * come down in quest of employment , if any of the officers on board would intrust their invest- ments to him , or if any body chose to borrow money at 12 per cent . In appearance and manners he was ...
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... English hotel , before night : but the wind being foul , were obliged to anchor a few miles short of it . After dinner , the heat being considerably abated , we went in the yacht's boat to the near- est shore . Before us was a large ...
... English hotel , before night : but the wind being foul , were obliged to anchor a few miles short of it . After dinner , the heat being considerably abated , we went in the yacht's boat to the near- est shore . Before us was a large ...
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... English house . The beds , instead of curtains , had mos- cheto nets ; they were raised from the high ground and very hard , admirably adapted for a hot climate . I had then the ceremony to go through of being made ac- quainted with a ...
... English house . The beds , instead of curtains , had mos- cheto nets ; they were raised from the high ground and very hard , admirably adapted for a hot climate . I had then the ceremony to go through of being made ac- quainted with a ...
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... English law . All offences committed within this line are tried by the " Sudder Adawlut , " or Supreme Court of Justice ; those beyond fall , in the first instance , within the cognizance of the local magistracy , and in case of appeal ...
... English law . All offences committed within this line are tried by the " Sudder Adawlut , " or Supreme Court of Justice ; those beyond fall , in the first instance , within the cognizance of the local magistracy , and in case of appeal ...
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... English footman or groom . Some of their expressions , indeed , are often misun- derstood by new comers as uncivil , when nothing less than incivility is intended . If you bid a man order breakfast , he will answer , " Have I not ...
... English footman or groom . Some of their expressions , indeed , are often misun- derstood by new comers as uncivil , when nothing less than incivility is intended . If you bid a man order breakfast , he will answer , " Have I not ...
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Page 173 - ... when, on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs I lay, and woo the cooler wind. I miss thee when by Gunga's stream my twilight steps I guide, But most beneath the lamp's pale beam I miss thee from my side.
Page 173 - O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, When, on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs I lay And woo the cooler wind. I miss thee when...
Page 176 - With pendent 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 bow'r has stood, But thought on England's
Page 173 - But miss thy kind approving eye, thy meek attentive ear. But when of morn and eve the star beholds me on my knee, I feel, though thou art distant far, thy prayers ascend for me. Then on ! then on ! where duty leads my course be onward still, — 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.
Page 76 - ... sun and nakedness may have tanned it ; and I am encouraged in this hypothesis by observing that of animals the natural colours are generally dusky and uniform, while whiteness and a variety of tint almost invariably follow domestication, shelter from the elements, and a mixed and unnatural diet. Thus while hardship, additional exposure, a greater degree of heat, and other circumstances with which we are unacquainted, may have deteriorated the Hindoo into a negro, opposite causes may have changed...
Page 177 - Philomel ! * Enough, enough, the rustling trees Announce a shower upon the breeze, — The flashes of the summer sky Assume a deeper, ruddier dye; Yon lamp that trembles on the stream, From forth our cabin sheds its beam ; And we must early sleep, to find Betimes the morning's healthy wind. But oh ! with thankful hearts confess Ev'n here there may be happiness ; And He, the bounteous Sire, has given His peace on earth— his hope of heaven !
Page 177 - And through the trees, yon failing ray Will scantly serve to guide our way. Yet, mark! as fade the upper skies, Each thicket opes ten thousand eyes. Before, beside us, and above, The fire-fly lights his lamp of love, Retreating...
Page 176 - Mid Nature's embers, parched and dry, Where o'er some tower in ruin laid, The peepul spreads its haunted shade ; Or round a tomb his scales to wreathe, Fit warder in the gate of death ! Come on ! Yet pause! behold us now Beneath the bamboo's arched bough...
Page 501 - Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Page 177 - The shrill cigala strikes his lyre ; And, what is she whose liquid strain Thrills through yon copse of sugarcane? I know that soul-entrancing swell ! It is — it must be — Philomel ! ' Enough, enough, the rustling trees Announce a shower upon the breeze...