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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... nature is too vast for any particular description , there may seem contradictions in some places , either in the narration of existing facts , or in the hopes entertained of the future . But these contradictions may be easily reconciled ...
... nature is too vast for any particular description , there may seem contradictions in some places , either in the narration of existing facts , or in the hopes entertained of the future . But these contradictions may be easily reconciled ...
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... nature of his character . - Poverty unlocks the best sympathies of the heart . - Harris's grateful remembrance of past favours . - Emotion at mention of the name of his first kind Teacher . - His irrefragable ties of gratitude and ...
... nature of his character . - Poverty unlocks the best sympathies of the heart . - Harris's grateful remembrance of past favours . - Emotion at mention of the name of his first kind Teacher . - His irrefragable ties of gratitude and ...
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... nature could not be unattended to , he thought , poor soul , of mortgaging a brass plate to buy his simple fare . It was raining hard and furious , and there was no umbrella to go out under . Pen- sive and sad did the famished youth sit ...
... nature could not be unattended to , he thought , poor soul , of mortgaging a brass plate to buy his simple fare . It was raining hard and furious , and there was no umbrella to go out under . Pen- sive and sad did the famished youth sit ...
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... nature worked in his bosom . Reflection defined his choice ; and he resolved to leave his mer- ciless masters , to seek out some other employ- ment , cost what it might . It was during some month in 1848 that a vacancy was announced at ...
... nature worked in his bosom . Reflection defined his choice ; and he resolved to leave his mer- ciless masters , to seek out some other employ- ment , cost what it might . It was during some month in 1848 that a vacancy was announced at ...
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... nature of his avoca- tion was itself an incentive to this inclina- tion . He had to do extra work ; he must , therefore , attract people , by some show or other , and persuade them to believe he was competent to do his task . He ...
... nature of his avoca- tion was itself an incentive to this inclina- tion . He had to do extra work ; he must , therefore , attract people , by some show or other , and persuade them to believe he was competent to do his task . He ...
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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 Elphinstone Elphinstone College Elphinstone Institution empire energy England English education Englishmen enlightenment Europe European fact feeling female France future German Goddess of Poverty Government Gujarati Harris heart Hindoo honour human ignorance impart influence instruction intellectual intelligence knowledge labour language learning literature Lord Lord Macaulay Madras Mahomedan mankind mass means ment mind modern moral nation Native nature Negro ness never object Parsee passed patriot political poor position present Presidency progress race Rammohun Roy religion render rise Roman Sanskrit sion social spirit success talents taste teachers thought tion tribes utter vernacular Warren Hastings whole writer Young India Zoroaster