Calcutta Review, Τόμος 36University of Calcutta, 1861 |
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Σελίδα 15
... readers at Home and Calcutta cockneys may be as well reminded of the history of India for the last half century , of the great men whose names have been already cited , of the civilization of Sindh and the Pan- jab , of the settlement ...
... readers at Home and Calcutta cockneys may be as well reminded of the history of India for the last half century , of the great men whose names have been already cited , of the civilization of Sindh and the Pan- jab , of the settlement ...
Σελίδα 16
... reader , that some such men as the old Civilians , are still required to administer those parts of India which are still in the condition of foreign Dependencies , requiring a despotic system , but for which an European is better than ...
... reader , that some such men as the old Civilians , are still required to administer those parts of India which are still in the condition of foreign Dependencies , requiring a despotic system , but for which an European is better than ...
Σελίδα 53
... reader of their recent works must have been struck by one peculiarity , which he can- not deny to any of them . However interesting the book , however numerous and beautiful the new views of things which it may have disclosed to him ...
... reader of their recent works must have been struck by one peculiarity , which he can- not deny to any of them . However interesting the book , however numerous and beautiful the new views of things which it may have disclosed to him ...
Σελίδα 58
... readers , the gross anachronism into which Gladstone has been betrayed , at once by his ingenuity and his enthusiasm in support of a religious theory . Yet it would not be one whit less absurd to charge Job , the first Arab known to us ...
... readers , the gross anachronism into which Gladstone has been betrayed , at once by his ingenuity and his enthusiasm in support of a religious theory . Yet it would not be one whit less absurd to charge Job , the first Arab known to us ...
Σελίδα 63
... readers to the most recent attempt to translate the untranslateable , that by Mr. Newman . The sole merit of the peculiar unrhymed metre which he has chosen is , that it admits of a more literal and complete rendering than is attainable ...
... readers to the most recent attempt to translate the untranslateable , that by Mr. Newman . The sole merit of the peculiar unrhymed metre which he has chosen is , that it admits of a more literal and complete rendering than is attainable ...
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Σελίδα 75 - Divinely through all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints him that his face, The shape and colour of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest...
Σελίδα 75 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Σελίδα 108 - Lo, humbled in dust, I relinquish my pride: From doubt and from darkness thou only canst free,* " And darkness and doubt are now flying away, No longer I roam in conjecture forlorn. So breaks on the traveller, faint, and astray, The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. See Truth, Love, and Mercy, in triumph descending, And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom! On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And Beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
Σελίδα 357 - But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
Σελίδα 320 - A man, both day and night, must keep his wife so much in subjection that she by no means be mistress of her own actions. If the wife have her own free will, notwithstanding she be of a superior caste, she will behave amiss.
Σελίδα 319 - BY a girl, or by a young woman, or by a woman advanced in years, nothing must be done, even in her own dwelling place, according to her mere pleasure : 148.
Σελίδα 185 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point, among all people of discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Σελίδα 320 - ... a barren wife may be superseded by another in the eighth year; she whose children are all dead, in the tenth ; she who brings forth only daughters, in the eleventh ; she who speaks unkindly, without delay...
Σελίδα 319 - Let her emaciate her body by living voluntarily on pure flowers, roots, and fruit ; but let her not, when her lord is deceased, even pronounce the name of another man. " Let her continue till death forgiving all injuries, performing harsh duties, avoiding every sensual pleasure, and cheerfully practising the incomparable rules of virtue, which have been followed by such women as were devoted to one only husband.