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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... never be forgotten , that writing , as the Author does , in a foreign language , acquired only in the schoolroom and the closet , born and living in a country of enervating climate , which denies to the zealous student many a wished - B.
... never be forgotten , that writing , as the Author does , in a foreign language , acquired only in the schoolroom and the closet , born and living in a country of enervating climate , which denies to the zealous student many a wished - B.
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... language , English climate , and English institutions to claim as its own . He would therefore naturally ask to be tried by a special and much modified code in the English court of criticism . As for his countrymen , the author is ...
... language , English climate , and English institutions to claim as its own . He would therefore naturally ask to be tried by a special and much modified code in the English court of criticism . As for his countrymen , the author is ...
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... language , which influenced the Government in the dictates of their just course and policy , vindicated the right and honour of an entire nation , and excited admiration and called forth eulogy , not only in words of oral delivery , and ...
... language , which influenced the Government in the dictates of their just course and policy , vindicated the right and honour of an entire nation , and excited admiration and called forth eulogy , not only in words of oral delivery , and ...
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... language loud and illite- rate ; and their rich and splendid ornament- ing and dressing charm the eye of every one who accosts them , and draw forth some remark as to the appropriateness of , or towards better- ing , their appearance ...
... language loud and illite- rate ; and their rich and splendid ornament- ing and dressing charm the eye of every one who accosts them , and draw forth some remark as to the appropriateness of , or towards better- ing , their appearance ...
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... language , English man- ners , and English behaviour , for our wives and daughters ; and until these are supplied , it is but just that the present gulf between the Englishman and the Indian should remain as wide as ever . They meet ...
... language , English man- ners , and English behaviour , for our wives and daughters ; and until these are supplied , it is but just that the present gulf between the Englishman and the Indian should remain as wide as ever . They meet ...
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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 179 - 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 143 - 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 312 - I mean, that modern history appears to be not only a step in advance of ancient history, but the last step; it appears to bear marks of the fulness of time, as if there would be no future history beyond it.
Seite 101 - 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 219 - 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 100 - ... 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. Old Brooke comes sweeping round the skirts of the play, and turning short round picks out the very heart of the scrummage, and plunges in. It wavers for a moment — he has the ball! No, it...
Seite 97 - 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.
Seite 33 - I cannot conceive it possible for any one to dispute the policy of taking advantage of every just opportunity which presents itself for consolidating the territories that already belong to us by taking possession of states which may lapse in the midst of them...
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 104 - ... 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...