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... districts , the number of previous imprisonments the ' criminals have undergone , or any other circumstances to show Report on Jails of the Lower Provinces , 1855-56 . Page 19 . ' the effects of imprisonment on crime , and how 22 INDIAN ...
... districts , the number of previous imprisonments the ' criminals have undergone , or any other circumstances to show Report on Jails of the Lower Provinces , 1855-56 . Page 19 . ' the effects of imprisonment on crime , and how 22 INDIAN ...
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... districts in which they were produced , where the population is entirely native , and the cost of transporting a superior produce to Calcutta or elsewhere would doubtless have proved it a ruinous proceeding . The exhibited articles ...
... districts in which they were produced , where the population is entirely native , and the cost of transporting a superior produce to Calcutta or elsewhere would doubtless have proved it a ruinous proceeding . The exhibited articles ...
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... districts , the cost of the additional labor bestowed , would scarcely meet with a corresponding value , but this could hardly be the case in localities within reach of populous neigh- bourhoods , where quality has become of some moment ...
... districts , the cost of the additional labor bestowed , would scarcely meet with a corresponding value , but this could hardly be the case in localities within reach of populous neigh- bourhoods , where quality has become of some moment ...
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... districts of the agricultural class . An inundation , or a long continued want of rain , will sometimes so blight the prospects of the poorer class of ryots , that absolute destitution not unfrequently drives them to the commission of ...
... districts of the agricultural class . An inundation , or a long continued want of rain , will sometimes so blight the prospects of the poorer class of ryots , that absolute destitution not unfrequently drives them to the commission of ...
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... districts , they volunteered ten and twelve days ' labor ! We can see no practical objection to the formation of small model farms attached to some of our Jails , where circumstances will allow of its being done without incurring too ...
... districts , they volunteered ten and twelve days ' labor ! We can see no practical objection to the formation of small model farms attached to some of our Jails , where circumstances will allow of its being done without incurring too ...
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Page 93 - When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me, Until I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood I their end.
Page 94 - Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay. There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother- — he their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday...
Page 94 - He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eyes Were with his heart, 'and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Daci.an mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday! — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 156 - How best to help the slender store, How mend the dwellings, of the poor; How gain in life, as life advances, Valour and charity more and more.
Page xxiv - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Page 331 - On the first day of April, and thereafter monthly, each Division, Camp, or Post Commander shall report to the Adjutant General of the Army, for the information of the Chief of Staff...
Page 93 - For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men ; neither are they plagued like other men.
Page 68 - tis positive Negation! COLOGNE. IN Kohln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches ; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks ! Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne ; But tell me, Nymphs ! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTUR SAME CITY.
Page 430 - ... a system which tends, more than any thing else the Devil has yet invented, to destroy the feelings of general benevolence, and to make nine-tenths of mankind the hopeless slaves of the remainder ; and in the total absence of any popular system of morals, or any single lesson which the people at large ever hear, to live virtuously and do good to each other.
Page 387 - He now repeats that declaration, and he emphatically proclaims that the government of India entertains no desire to interfere with their religion or caste, and that nothing has been, or will be done by the government to affect the free exercise of the observances of religion or caste by every class of the people. The government of India...