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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... learning by its pomp , and not its modest course . Even in our own island we see men , engaged in writing petitions or letters , placing on their tables some dusty volumes- useful , worthless , or pernicious- pernicious - just for the ...
... learning by its pomp , and not its modest course . Even in our own island we see men , engaged in writing petitions or letters , placing on their tables some dusty volumes- useful , worthless , or pernicious- pernicious - just for the ...
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... learning and ability is so common and deep- rooted amongst our illiterate as well as half- educated countrymen , that whenever they de- sire to know the progress of any scholar , the question invariably turns upon the number of books he ...
... learning and ability is so common and deep- rooted amongst our illiterate as well as half- educated countrymen , that whenever they de- sire to know the progress of any scholar , the question invariably turns upon the number of books he ...
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... learning truly remarkable . India herself is not want- ing in her examples . The names of Atreyi , Maitreyi , and Gargi are handed down in tra- ditional succession as eminently distinguished for their knowledge of Vedantic philosophy ...
... learning truly remarkable . India herself is not want- ing in her examples . The names of Atreyi , Maitreyi , and Gargi are handed down in tra- ditional succession as eminently distinguished for their knowledge of Vedantic philosophy ...
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... learning , and he had no more settled purpose , when he left his form , than the very vague one of falling upon the world to procure a bare livelihood ; and it was at this time that he was most perilously situated . The period , reader ...
... learning , and he had no more settled purpose , when he left his form , than the very vague one of falling upon the world to procure a bare livelihood ; and it was at this time that he was most perilously situated . The period , reader ...
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... learning stated .-- The “ do- mestic literary treason " of the elder Disraeli . - Study pursued in India more as a means to rise than as an end in itself .-- Want of earnestness and pre - calculation with Young India in all his ...
... learning stated .-- The “ do- mestic literary treason " of the elder Disraeli . - Study pursued in India more as a means to rise than as an end in itself .-- Want of earnestness and pre - calculation with Young India in all his ...
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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