Lights and Shades of the East: Or a Study of the Life of Baboo Harrischander and Passing Thoughts on India and Its People, Their Present and FutureAlliance Press, 1863 - 385 Seiten |
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... doubt , a stray rupee now and then , but it could not certainly be sufficient to give to him his livelihood ; and he became des- perate in position . On one unfortunate day , when he had not a grain of rice in his house for a simple ...
... doubt , a stray rupee now and then , but it could not certainly be sufficient to give to him his livelihood ; and he became des- perate in position . On one unfortunate day , when he had not a grain of rice in his house for a simple ...
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... doubt whether the name is expressive of contempt or praise . The fact , however , is , " Young India , " instead of being one class , com- prehensible under one description , consists of two grand classes , as distinct from each other ...
... doubt whether the name is expressive of contempt or praise . The fact , however , is , " Young India , " instead of being one class , com- prehensible under one description , consists of two grand classes , as distinct from each other ...
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... reserves all the loaves and fishes of the State for a few thousand favourites of the alien race - does , without doubt , imperatively call for a total reconstruction ; and this , if not attend- ed to in time , will , at no very.
... reserves all the loaves and fishes of the State for a few thousand favourites of the alien race - does , without doubt , imperatively call for a total reconstruction ; and this , if not attend- ed to in time , will , at no very.
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... Pisgah view from the side of the death - bed , and seeing something of the bright land of promise in their own case . Harris's last words would no doubt have afforded a glimpse DEATH - BED SCENES . 43 of his own faith 42 LIGHTS AND SHADES .
... Pisgah view from the side of the death - bed , and seeing something of the bright land of promise in their own case . Harris's last words would no doubt have afforded a glimpse DEATH - BED SCENES . 43 of his own faith 42 LIGHTS AND SHADES .
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... point of moral vigour and intellectual strength . View- ing other classes than that of our well - educated youth , the picture no doubt is gloom - inspiring ; and excepting only the few who thoroughly imbibe English taste.
... point of moral vigour and intellectual strength . View- ing other classes than that of our well - educated youth , the picture no doubt is gloom - inspiring ; and excepting only the few who thoroughly imbibe English taste.
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Agra amelioration ancient Arabic Arian Baboo Harrischander Bengal Bengal Presidency Bombay Bombay Presidency boys British British India Calcutta Caucasian race character circumstances civilisation colleges colonisation colportage commenced countrymen David Hare destiny East educa element Elphinstone Elphinstone College Elphinstone Institution empire England English education Englishmen enlightenment Europe European exertions faith feeling female France future German Goddess of Poverty Government Gujarati Harris heart Hindoo honour human ignorance impart influence instruction intellectual knowledge labour language learning literature Lord Lord Macaulay Madras Mahomedan mankind means ment mind modern moral nation Native nature Negro ness never object Parsee pass patriot political poor position present Presidency progress race Rammohun Roy reader religion rise Roman Sanskrit sion social spirit success talents taste teachers thought tion tribes utter vernacular Warren Hastings whole writer Young India Zoroaster
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Seite 181 - We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern ; a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.
Seite 145 - Throw yourself rather, my dear Sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century in them, rather than turn slave to the Booksellers. They are Turks and Tartars, when they have poor authors at their beck. Hitherto you have been at arm's length from them.
Seite 103 - They are hauled and roll off him, and Tom is discovered a motionless body. " Old Brooke picks him up. ' Stand back, give him air,' he says ; and then feeling his limbs, adds,
Seite 221 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell...
Seite 99 - OH, when I was a tiny boy My days and nights were full of joy, My mates were blithe and kind ! — No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the tear-drop from my eye, To cast a look behind ! A hoop was an eternal round Of pleasure. In those days I found A top a joyous thing ; — But now those past delights I drop, My head, alas ! is all my top, And careful thoughts the string...
Seite 101 - East up lame and half stunned, and he hobbles back into goal, conscious of having played the man. And now the last minutes are come, and the school gather for their last rush, every boy of the hundred and twenty who has a run left in him. Reckless of the...
Seite 102 - ... them, straight for our goal like the column of the Old Guard up the slope at Waterloo. All former charges have been child's play to this. Warner and Hedge have met them, but still on they come. The bull-dogs rush in for the last time ; they are, hurled over or carried back, striving hand, foot and eyelids.
Seite 33 - I venture to think, be a source of strength ; for adding to the resources of the public treasury ; and for extending the uniform application of our system of government to those whose best interests, we sincerely believe, will be promoted thereby.
Seite 355 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Seite 106 - ... inch of distance to the last. The Orielites on the bank, who are rushing along, sometimes in the water, sometimes out, hoarse, furious, madly alternating between hope and despair, have no reason to be ashamed of a man in the crew. Off the mouth of the Cherwell there is still twenty feet between them. Another minute, and it will be over one way or another. Every man in both crews is now doing his best, and no mistake: tell me which boat holds the most men who can do better than their best at a...