General Report on Public Instruction in the North Western Provinces of the Bengal PresidencyAgra Ukhbar Press, 1844 - Education |
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1st Class 2nd Class 2nd ditto 30th April 3rd Class 3rd ditto Agra College Agra district Algebra Allahabad Ally Answer to Q Appendix Arabic Arithmetic attendance Bareilly Benares Benares College Bengal Boutros boys Brahmins Buldeo Calcutta Caste Civil class books Committee copies corn DATE OF APPOINTMENT Dehlie Delhie College district ditto ditto duty English Department Esquire Establishment Euclid examination Fund Geography Govt Grammar Head Master Hindee Schools Hindi Hindoos History of India honor improvement indigenous schools Institutions instruction Jubbulpore Junior Scholarship Khan knowledge Lall language letter Lieutenant Governor Mahomedans Marshman's mensem ment native Natural Philosophy North Western Provinces number of Students Oordoo ORIENTAL DEPARTMENT Pershad Persian Schools Principal proposed Pundit pupils Reader Rupees SALARY Sanscrit Sanscrit College Sanscrit Department scholars Secretary Secy Senior shewing the Number Statement shewing Superintendent taught teachers THORNTON tion Total translations Urdu Vernacular village whole
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Page xi - Oh, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers ! quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows,
Page x - Hail holy Light, offspring of heav'n first-born, Or of th' Eternal co-eternal beam May I express thee unblamed ? Since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell
Page x - So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies : «*•**•**** So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he
Page xii - Sir, that soaks up the king's countenance; " his rewards ; his authorities ; but such officers do the king " best service in the end ; he keeps them, like an ape, in the "corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed. " When he needs what you have gleaned, it is but
Page xi - Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee ; " Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice ; " Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Page xi - If his chief good, and market of his time, " Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. " Looking before and after, gave us not
Page xxiv - bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him ; so that a man hath, as it were, two lives
Page xi - These few precepts in thy memory " Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, " Nor any unproportioned thought his act; " Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar—
Page xi - see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth, Blasted with ecstasy
Page xi - Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel— " But do not dull thy palm with entertainment