Anglo-India, social, moral and political; a collection of papers from the Asiatic journal1838 |
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... arrive in the propitious region of New Burlington Street , and after it has received its due share of pruning and polish at the maturing hands of Mr. Shuckburgh , to take its place in what is called by courtesy " the literature of the ...
... arrive in the propitious region of New Burlington Street , and after it has received its due share of pruning and polish at the maturing hands of Mr. Shuckburgh , to take its place in what is called by courtesy " the literature of the ...
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... arrival ; and many of the eligibles flocked around her . The kind friends , with whom she was domiciled , gave her the usual catalogue raisonné of the unmarried members of the civil and military services . As to the latter , except in ...
... arrival ; and many of the eligibles flocked around her . The kind friends , with whom she was domiciled , gave her the usual catalogue raisonné of the unmarried members of the civil and military services . As to the latter , except in ...
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... - ther propitious death to arrive at the consummation of his hopes , the seat in council . But they knew her not , nor was it possible they should . She was far too high - minded for such vulgar disquietudes , ENGLISH SOCIETY IN INDIA . 41.
... - ther propitious death to arrive at the consummation of his hopes , the seat in council . But they knew her not , nor was it possible they should . She was far too high - minded for such vulgar disquietudes , ENGLISH SOCIETY IN INDIA . 41.
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... arrived , who was dazzled and astonished at the splendour of his hospitality ; enquiry took place , and R ******* was a defaulter to an immense amount . He lived but for opinion , and although it was a contemptible species of opinion ...
... arrived , who was dazzled and astonished at the splendour of his hospitality ; enquiry took place , and R ******* was a defaulter to an immense amount . He lived but for opinion , and although it was a contemptible species of opinion ...
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... arrival brings him copious extracts from these journals , in which whole columns are devoted to the discussion of the plans , counsels , even the em- bryo resolves , of the civil government , whilst the minutest subjects of domestic ...
... arrival brings him copious extracts from these journals , in which whole columns are devoted to the discussion of the plans , counsels , even the em- bryo resolves , of the civil government , whilst the minutest subjects of domestic ...
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Page 32 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 26 - Uprear'd of human hands. Come, and compare Columns and idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek, With Nature's realms of worship, earth and air...
Page 232 - A Second Conference between an Advocate for, and an Opponent of, the practice of burning Widows alive.
Page 335 - This easy and universal belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without observing the gradual, but incessant, change of human affairs, and, even in our larger experience of history, the imagination is accustomed, by a perpetual series of causes and effects, to unite the most distant revolutions. But, if the interval between two memorable...
Page 43 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Page 301 - All metaphysical impossibilities can be reduced to the formula, that it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same moment, as this would be an absurdity, — that is, an absurd or meaningless statement.
Page 83 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: — But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 226 - This simple code of religion and morality is so admirably calculated to elevate men's ideas to high and liberal...
Page 226 - God, who has equally subjected all living creatures, without distinction of caste, rank, or wealth, to change, disappointment, pain, and death, and has equally admitted all to be partakers of the bountiful mercies which he has lavished over nature, and is also so well fitted to regulate the conduct of the human race in the discharge of their various duties to God, to themselves, and to society, that I cannot but hope the best effects from its promulgation in the present form.
Page 220 - I published various works and pamphlets against their errors, in the native and foreign languages. This raised such a feeling against me, that I was at last deserted by every person except two or three Scotch friends, to whom, and the nation to which they belong, I always feel grateful.