Anglo-India, Social, Moral, and Political: Tales and fictions. BiographyW.H. Allen, 1838 |
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... became unable to supply his extravagance , and his bills on Pondicherry were returned dishonoured . Then came the revolution . Louis had caught the fever of the times , was initiated into the bloody rites of Jacobinism , and shared in ...
... became unable to supply his extravagance , and his bills on Pondicherry were returned dishonoured . Then came the revolution . Louis had caught the fever of the times , was initiated into the bloody rites of Jacobinism , and shared in ...
Sida 16
... became ungovernable ; and such was the tumult and sorrow of the scene , that Madame La Roche Jacqueline compares it to the day of judgment . The count and his son , both wounded in the last defeat , were with difficulty retreating from ...
... became ungovernable ; and such was the tumult and sorrow of the scene , that Madame La Roche Jacqueline compares it to the day of judgment . The count and his son , both wounded in the last defeat , were with difficulty retreating from ...
Sida 26
... became ac- quainted with one , -poor Tom Legge . It was the day after Christmas A.D. 1807 , one of those bright exhilarating mornings , never known in our clime , while in my tent , and intent on protracting the route of Sindia's army ...
... became ac- quainted with one , -poor Tom Legge . It was the day after Christmas A.D. 1807 , one of those bright exhilarating mornings , never known in our clime , while in my tent , and intent on protracting the route of Sindia's army ...
Sida 33
... became more than usually serious - it was his mad point . It mattered little that a warmer spot than the summit of the Indian Caucasus was requisite for the comfort of our undraped progenitors . To reason with him was unreasonable - he ...
... became more than usually serious - it was his mad point . It mattered little that a warmer spot than the summit of the Indian Caucasus was requisite for the comfort of our undraped progenitors . To reason with him was unreasonable - he ...
Sida 51
... which they would not otherwise perhaps have received . It became the fashion to express a sympathy for her situation , and she was invited into the family D 2 A TALE OF THE MAYOR'S COURT . 51 this ring for my sake;" placing, at ...
... which they would not otherwise perhaps have received . It became the fashion to express a sympathy for her situation , and she was invited into the family D 2 A TALE OF THE MAYOR'S COURT . 51 this ring for my sake;" placing, at ...
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Sida 35 - Uprear'd of human hands. Come, and compare Columns and idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek, With Nature's realms of worship, earth and air...
Sida 241 - A Second Conference between an Advocate for, and an Opponent of, the practice of burning Widows alive.
Sida 235 - This simple code of religion and morality is so admirably calculated to elevate men's ideas to high and liberal...
Sida 229 - I published various works and pamphlets against their errors, in the native and foreign languages. This raised such a feeling against me, that I was at last deserted by every person except two or three Scotch friends, to whom, and the nation to which they belong, I always feel grateful.
Sida 239 - ... for the worship and adoration of the Eternal Unsearchable and Immutable Being who is the Author and Preserver of the Universe...
Sida 207 - Having taken this general view, with a minute attention to the papers and proceedings before us, we are decidedly of opinion that the late Governor-general, Lord Teignmouth, in a most arduous situation, and under circumstances of embarrassment and difficulty, conducted himself with great temper, impartiality, ability, and firmness : and that he finished a long career of faithful services, by planning and carrying into effect an arrangement, which not only redounds highly to his own honour, but which...
Sida 237 - The doctrine maintained in it respecting God, is thus stated by himself : — " That the Omnipotent God, who is the only proper object of religious veneration, is one and undivided in person " ; that " in reliance on numerous promises found in the sacred writings, we ought to entertain every hope of enjoying the blessings of pardon from the merciful Father, through repentance, which is declared the only means of procuring forgiveness for our failures " ; and that he leads "such as worship him in...
Sida 242 - Roy, a warm advocate for the abolition of sati and of all other superstitions and corruptions engrafted on the Hindu religion, which he considers originally to have been a pure Deism.
Sida 101 - It is our duty, and I am happy to say it is our wish too, to hasten on the time when the people of the country may take a share in their government. ,But, at present, nobody would take a part or an interest in political discussions but the Europeans, of whom more than nine-tenths compose the strength of the army.
Sida 379 - Here he used occasionally to retire in the hot season. In the latter part of his life he laid out a large sum of money in constructing a gothic castle, which he did not live to finish. Beneath the ramparts of this castle he built casements, secured by iron doors, and gratings thickly wrought. The lodgments within the walls are arched and barred, and their roofs completely bombproof.