The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 98A. Constable, 1853 |
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... considered , the most important feature of the whole land of India is the long and wide valley watered by the Ganges , its affluents , and branches . In this fertile and exten- sive valley have sprung up the most advanced civilisations ...
... considered , the most important feature of the whole land of India is the long and wide valley watered by the Ganges , its affluents , and branches . In this fertile and exten- sive valley have sprung up the most advanced civilisations ...
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... considered to be a language of Central Asia , Arabic , and Persian . The foreign intermixture , of what- ever description , is always largest to the north , and gradually diminishes as we proceed southward , until at last it is propor ...
... considered to be a language of Central Asia , Arabic , and Persian . The foreign intermixture , of what- ever description , is always largest to the north , and gradually diminishes as we proceed southward , until at last it is propor ...
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... considered the most advanced of the southern nations of India . The results of their industry are seen in the reservoirs for irrigation , and stupendous dams , which have given fertility to the sands of the Carnatic , and converted ...
... considered the most advanced of the southern nations of India . The results of their industry are seen in the reservoirs for irrigation , and stupendous dams , which have given fertility to the sands of the Carnatic , and converted ...
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... considered as finally settled , -that the English language is henceforth , to be the common medium of intercourse , among the educated of the many nations over whom we rule , - the language of correspondence , of art , of science , of ...
... considered as finally settled , -that the English language is henceforth , to be the common medium of intercourse , among the educated of the many nations over whom we rule , - the language of correspondence , of art , of science , of ...
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... considered a more mortal sin than the murder of man . Some cases are given by our author , relating to conversions . to Christianity , which are curious and instructive . The first of these respects a Brahmin boy of twelve years of age ...
... considered a more mortal sin than the murder of man . Some cases are given by our author , relating to conversions . to Christianity , which are curious and instructive . The first of these respects a Brahmin boy of twelve years of age ...
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Seite 44 - Sanskrit works. I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.
Seite 122 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Seite 44 - The question now before us is simply whether, when it is in our power to teach this language, we shall teach languages in which by universal confession there are no books on any subject which deserve to be compared to our own...
Seite 148 - I did as plainly see his overthrow chained as it were by destiny to that journey, as it is possible for a man to ground a judgment upon future contingents.
Seite 146 - ... you had your asking — you had choice of times — you had power and authority more ample than ever any had, or ever shall have.
Seite 172 - ... to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry, and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings ; sincerity, good humor and all social affections and generous sentiments among the people.
Seite 150 - Princes' actions must have no abrupt periods or conclusions, but otherwise I would think, that if you had my Lord of Essex here with a white staff in his hand, as my Lord of Leicester had, and continued him still about you for society to yourself, and for an honour and ornament to your attendance and Court in the eyes of your people, and in the eyes of foreign Embassadors, then were he in his right element...
Seite 44 - History, we shall countenance, at the public expense medical doctrines which would disgrace an English Farrier Astronomy, which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school - History, abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigns thirty thousand years long - and Geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter.
Seite 357 - I thanked every one for their excellent conduct, and cautioned them, as we should, in all probability, soon appear before our Maker, to enter his presence as men resigned to their fate.
Seite 43 - All parties seem to be agreed on one point, that the dialects commonly spoken among the natives of this part of India contain neither Literary nor scientific information, and are, moreover so poor and rude that, until they are enriched from some other quarter, it will not be easy to translate any valuable work into them.