Anglo-India, social, moral and political; a collection of papers from the Asiatic journal1838 |
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... native place — the modest mansion , the home of her modest affections , the seat of her purest joys , and the blue wreath of smoke that curled from its roof , as if to warn her , after her return from a pro- longed walk , of the ...
... native place — the modest mansion , the home of her modest affections , the seat of her purest joys , and the blue wreath of smoke that curled from its roof , as if to warn her , after her return from a pro- longed walk , of the ...
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... native gentlemen ! ' Observe here ( reading a paragraph from a Bengal John Bull of a recent date ) : Last Thursday , a grand ball and supper were given by at his house in Chowringhee , at whic ha numerous , elegant , and brilliant ...
... native gentlemen ! ' Observe here ( reading a paragraph from a Bengal John Bull of a recent date ) : Last Thursday , a grand ball and supper were given by at his house in Chowringhee , at whic ha numerous , elegant , and brilliant ...
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... Native gentlemen , indeed ! Invited , too , to our evening parties , to teach them to laugh at our follies , to be spectators of our intemperance , to witness our convivial noise and inanity , and , how- ever they may for a while ...
... Native gentlemen , indeed ! Invited , too , to our evening parties , to teach them to laugh at our follies , to be spectators of our intemperance , to witness our convivial noise and inanity , and , how- ever they may for a while ...
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... native gentlemen ( he said this with a sneer of bitter irony ) , exposing yourselves to their gaze and their criticism in that attitude , which in their eyes is the most contemptible one in which you can be seen - especially in that ...
... native gentlemen ( he said this with a sneer of bitter irony ) , exposing yourselves to their gaze and their criticism in that attitude , which in their eyes is the most contemptible one in which you can be seen - especially in that ...
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... native community at a certain distance from us , not too great to generate awe , but just wide enough to preserve respect , be assured , we part with no small portion of our ascendancy . You may think this an insignificant circumstance ...
... native community at a certain distance from us , not too great to generate awe , but just wide enough to preserve respect , be assured , we part with no small portion of our ascendancy . You may think this an insignificant circumstance ...
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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.