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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... of purpose , and de- terminate zeal - so apparent , that he who runs may read them - require as much to be weighed in the balance of calculation as their greatness THE MORNING COMETH . 7 and their lustre . Their 6 LIGHTS AND SHADES .
... of purpose , and de- terminate zeal - so apparent , that he who runs may read them - require as much to be weighed in the balance of calculation as their greatness THE MORNING COMETH . 7 and their lustre . Their 6 LIGHTS AND SHADES .
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... requires to be shaded by the twilight of remoter times . Delille , by no means a critic of ordinary powers , suggested the defect of that masterpiece of the Revolutionary times - the Henriade - by saying that " it was too near to the ...
... requires to be shaded by the twilight of remoter times . Delille , by no means a critic of ordinary powers , suggested the defect of that masterpiece of the Revolutionary times - the Henriade - by saying that " it was too near to the ...
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... requires , we can even as well advise and regulate politics . Already it has been the source of great national benefit , by averting the imposition of ruinous and impro- per taxes , by sagely persuading the authorities out of their ...
... requires , we can even as well advise and regulate politics . Already it has been the source of great national benefit , by averting the imposition of ruinous and impro- per taxes , by sagely persuading the authorities out of their ...
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... require to be gradually brought together to one level of rank and position . And we have , to vindicate our opinion in this respect , the evidence of a noble page in the history of the world , borne out by a historian of great ...
... require to be gradually brought together to one level of rank and position . And we have , to vindicate our opinion in this respect , the evidence of a noble page in the history of the world , borne out by a historian of great ...
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... require only the fulcrum to move the whole world at his will ! And , after all , what does this coveted intellectual greatness consist in ? Just such proficiency as will enable him to take occupation as an eight or ten - rupee copyist ...
... require only the fulcrum to move the whole world at his will ! And , after all , what does this coveted intellectual greatness consist in ? Just such proficiency as will enable him to take occupation as an eight or ten - rupee copyist ...
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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...