Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official, Volume 2John Hatchard and Son, 1844 - India |
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... trees in Upper India - Cause and consequence- Wells and groves . 174 age- 65 litary 75 milk- . 109 the 146 160 92 CHAPTER XIV . Public spirit of the Hindoos - Tree cultivation , and sugges- tion for extending it CHAPTER XV . Cities and ...
... trees in Upper India - Cause and consequence- Wells and groves . 174 age- 65 litary 75 milk- . 109 the 146 160 92 CHAPTER XIV . Public spirit of the Hindoos - Tree cultivation , and sugges- tion for extending it CHAPTER XV . Cities and ...
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... tree to be any- where seen to give shelter and shade to the weary traveller ; and we could find no ground for our camp with a shrub to shelter man or beast . All are swept away to form gun - carriages for the Gwalior artillery , with a ...
... tree to be any- where seen to give shelter and shade to the weary traveller ; and we could find no ground for our camp with a shrub to shelter man or beast . All are swept away to form gun - carriages for the Gwalior artillery , with a ...
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... in dozens sought shelter under the walls and in the tree that stood in the courtyard ; and I believe that 11 CHAPTER II Dholepore, Capital of the Jat chiefs of Gohud-Conse- quence of obstacles to the prosecution of robbers.
... in dozens sought shelter under the walls and in the tree that stood in the courtyard ; and I believe that 11 CHAPTER II Dholepore, Capital of the Jat chiefs of Gohud-Conse- quence of obstacles to the prosecution of robbers.
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... tree anywhere to be seen , nor any such thing as a work of ornament or general utility of any kind . We saw the fort of Dholepore at a distance of six miles , rising apparently from the surface of the level plain ; but in reality ...
... tree anywhere to be seen , nor any such thing as a work of ornament or general utility of any kind . We saw the fort of Dholepore at a distance of six miles , rising apparently from the surface of the level plain ; but in reality ...
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... tree of any kind was to be seen . On returning from a long ride over the range of sandstone hills the morning after we reached Dholepore , I passed through an encamp- ment of camels taking rude iron from some mines in the hills to the ...
... tree of any kind was to be seen . On returning from a long ride over the range of sandstone hills the morning after we reached Dholepore , I passed through an encamp- ment of camels taking rude iron from some mines in the hills to the ...
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Page 320 - Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise; Think only what concerns thee and thy being...
Page 374 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice- are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places. We are perpetually moralists ; but we are geometricians only by chance.
Page 147 - I shall be pardoned for calling it by so harsh a name as madness, when it is considered that opposition to reason deserves that name, and is really madness ; and there is scarce a man so free from it, but that if he should always, on all occasions, argue or do as in some cases he constantly does, would not be thought fitter for Bedlam than civil conversation.
Page 103 - I see around me here Things which you cannot see : we die, my friend, Nor we alone, but that which each man loved And prized in his peculiar nook of earth '; . Dies with him, or is changed ; and very soon Even of the good is no memorial left.
Page 374 - But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the. sciences which that knowledge requires, or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind.
Page 80 - The Hindus are religious, affable, cheerful, lovers of justice, given to retirement, able in business, admirers of truth, grateful and of unbounded fidelity ; and their soldiers know not what it is to fly from the field of battle.:]: And even in quite modern times the Mohammedans seem willing to admit that the Hindus, at.
Page 78 - Jesus, on whom be peace, has said, The world is merely a bridge ; you are to pass over it and not to build your dwellings upon it.
Page 375 - ... chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation;...
Page 62 - Shena ; and he is very capable of talking upon all subjects of philosophy, literature, science, and the arts, and very much inclined to do so, and of understanding the nature of the improvements that have been made in them in modern times.
Page 327 - Soveraign, to make a right application of Punishments, and Rewards. And seeing the end of punishing is not revenge, and discharge of choler; but correction, either of the offender, or of others by his example; the severest Punishments are to be inflicted for those Crimes, that are of most Danger to the Publique; such as are those which proceed from malice to the Government established...