Calcutta Review, Band 1University of Calcutta., 1844 |
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... tion , coupled with its certainty , * is an extreme provocative to frequent correspondence , not only between parties engaged in business , but between private individuals . In former years a letter was four , five , six , perhaps ...
... tion , coupled with its certainty , * is an extreme provocative to frequent correspondence , not only between parties engaged in business , but between private individuals . In former years a letter was four , five , six , perhaps ...
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... tion , I turned into a blanket in the cold weather , by thrusting my legs into the sleeves , and drawing the skirts " over my head . In this situation , I lay , like Falstaff in the " basket - hilt to point , and very comfortable , I ...
... tion , I turned into a blanket in the cold weather , by thrusting my legs into the sleeves , and drawing the skirts " over my head . In this situation , I lay , like Falstaff in the " basket - hilt to point , and very comfortable , I ...
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... tion are dearer , the expenses of house - keeping are , on the whole , smaller , and money spent produces some certain and palpable advantage . We are not called upon to fritter away anything upon intangible benefits - a church ...
... tion are dearer , the expenses of house - keeping are , on the whole , smaller , and money spent produces some certain and palpable advantage . We are not called upon to fritter away anything upon intangible benefits - a church ...
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... tion . There was no church in Calcutta , although divine service " was performed in a room in the old Fort on Sunday mornings " only ; and there was only one Clergyman in Bengal . " Lord Clive had cut down the trading system , but had ...
... tion . There was no church in Calcutta , although divine service " was performed in a room in the old Fort on Sunday mornings " only ; and there was only one Clergyman in Bengal . " Lord Clive had cut down the trading system , but had ...
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... tion of Sir John Shore was not a vigorous administration ! the chief authority devolved upon him , he had received from England the painful intelligence of the death of his two younger children This incident has been ren- dered familiar ...
... tion of Sir John Shore was not a vigorous administration ! the chief authority devolved upon him , he had received from England the painful intelligence of the death of his two younger children This incident has been ren- dered familiar ...
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Seite 80 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Seite 565 - Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go; He followed her to school one day — That was against the rule. It made the children laugh and play To see a lamb at school.
Seite 299 - There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse, than in the boys whom we are whipping at school, or that we see trailing a pike, or bending over a desk at home. But as English youth in India drink the intoxicating draught of authority and dominion before their heads are able to bear it, and as they are full grown in fortune long before they are ripe in principle, neither nature nor reason have any opportunity to exert themselves...
Seite 151 - Cum stridore, with a great noise, and the elements melt with fervent heat, and the earth, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up...
Seite 525 - Content with the limits nature appears to have assigned to its empire, the Government of India will devote all its efforts to the establishment and maintenance of general peace, to the protection of the sovereigns and chiefs its allies, and to the prosperity and happiness of its own faithful subjects.
Seite 571 - Give Me to drink. (For His disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto Him, How is it that Thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Seite 87 - And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
Seite 100 - A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity by a College to be Erected in the Summer Islands, Otherwise Called the Isles of Bermuda . . . London, 1724 ' Fothergill, John] . Considerations Relative to the North American Colonies.
Seite 100 - Indians, exhibits a perfect pattern of the qualities which should distinguish the instructor of rude and barbarous tribes ; the most invincible patience and self-denial, the profoundest humility, exquisite prudence, indefatigable industry, and such a devotedness to God, or rather such an absorption of the whole soul in zeal for the divine glory and the salvation of men, as is scarcely to be paralleled since the age of the apostles.
Seite 60 - And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honor, and policy of this nation...