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... Standing Army " -Coalitions - Petitions to Government -Infidel Works Cases of Outrage - Appeal to Judicial Courts— MISSIONARY TRIALS - Solitariness of his Position , and Singularity of his Character - Repulsiveness of his Message ...
... Standing Army " -Coalitions - Petitions to Government -Infidel Works Cases of Outrage - Appeal to Judicial Courts— MISSIONARY TRIALS - Solitariness of his Position , and Singularity of his Character - Repulsiveness of his Message ...
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... stand out in such striking diversity from each other as to make them feel that they are mutual aliens , whilst their respective languages seem to shut them out from all communication with each other . Yet is it indisputa- ble that the ...
... stand out in such striking diversity from each other as to make them feel that they are mutual aliens , whilst their respective languages seem to shut them out from all communication with each other . Yet is it indisputa- ble that the ...
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... stand out in striking contrast from the manners and institutes which are congenial to the northern or temperate climates of Europe ; yet may they be as essentially civilized . Nothing is more absurd , and perhaps nothing is less ...
... stand out in striking contrast from the manners and institutes which are congenial to the northern or temperate climates of Europe ; yet may they be as essentially civilized . Nothing is more absurd , and perhaps nothing is less ...
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... has been transmitted to us from other people , and has descended from other ages . The civilization of India stands out in striking contrast . It has been produced by no foreign circum- C 26 THE INDIAN NATION . stances . At what point.
... has been transmitted to us from other people , and has descended from other ages . The civilization of India stands out in striking contrast . It has been produced by no foreign circum- C 26 THE INDIAN NATION . stances . At what point.
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... stand in the great scale of human civilization , it is there , not , as is the case with ourselves , by superiority to its former self . It has emerged from no barbarism . It has risen from no depths . It has recovered from no fall . It ...
... stand in the great scale of human civilization , it is there , not , as is the case with ourselves , by superiority to its former self . It has emerged from no barbarism . It has risen from no depths . It has recovered from no fall . It ...
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Page 37 - If a country remain for a series of years the scene of continued pillage and massacre, so that the villages cannot be inhabited, the scattered villagers nevertheless return whenever the power of peaceable possession revives.
Page 36 - The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything that they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down : revolution succeeds to revolution; Hindu, Pathan, Moghul, Mahratta, Sikh, English are masters in turn ; but the village communities remain the same...
Page 262 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page 261 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him against that day.
Page 317 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 36 - An hostile army passes through the country. The village communities collect their cattle within their walls, and let the enemy pass unprovoked. If plunder and devastation be directed against themselves, and the force employed be irresistible, they flee to friendly villages at a distance, but when the storm has passed over they return and resume their occupations.
Page 295 - And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation...
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