Sketches of Some Distinguished Anglo-Indians: With an Account of Anglo-Indian Periodical Literature, المجلد 1W.H. Allen, 1875 - 420 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة vii
... appearing together in these pages , than was at first contemplated . They are more or less distinguished ; but there is certainly a goodly array ; and my humble attempt to do justice to some of them ( Anglo - Indians ) is apt to remind ...
... appearing together in these pages , than was at first contemplated . They are more or less distinguished ; but there is certainly a goodly array ; and my humble attempt to do justice to some of them ( Anglo - Indians ) is apt to remind ...
الصفحة ix
... appeared too low . The officers did not think Sir Henry would pass through it . Those who have been in India know well the rapid pace of some elephants , which seems to quicken ( as if the animal had an increasing sense of his ...
... appeared too low . The officers did not think Sir Henry would pass through it . Those who have been in India know well the rapid pace of some elephants , which seems to quicken ( as if the animal had an increasing sense of his ...
الصفحة xii
... appeared in a London magazine , at first ( as its name held forth ) an Oxford star , which , although it had pecuniary and literary support from its well - wishers - among them two of England's most distin- guished writers - after ...
... appeared in a London magazine , at first ( as its name held forth ) an Oxford star , which , although it had pecuniary and literary support from its well - wishers - among them two of England's most distin- guished writers - after ...
الصفحة 6
... appeared for many a day . Nearly nine hundred copies were sold off in a single day ; and the publisher gave the author eight hundred pounds for the copyright of the first edition . Mr. Lockhart ( editor of the Quarterly , and the ...
... appeared for many a day . Nearly nine hundred copies were sold off in a single day ; and the publisher gave the author eight hundred pounds for the copyright of the first edition . Mr. Lockhart ( editor of the Quarterly , and the ...
الصفحة 7
... appeared " in every respect well qualified to tread in the steps of our Malcolms and Elphinstones . " Burnes was now elected a member of the Royal Asiatic Society , when all the honours were heaped upon him which that brilliant ...
... appeared " in every respect well qualified to tread in the steps of our Malcolms and Elphinstones . " Burnes was now elected a member of the Royal Asiatic Society , when all the honours were heaped upon him which that brilliant ...
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الصفحة 179 - The world was sad ! — the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sigh'd — till woman smiled...
الصفحة 27 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
الصفحة 42 - When I think of death, Mr Morton, as a thing worth thinking of, it is in the hope of pressing one day some well-fought and hard-won field of battle, and dying with the shout of victory in my ear — that would be worth dying for, and more, it would be worth having lived for...
الصفحة 39 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
الصفحة 252 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
الصفحة 28 - ... no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography, since none can be more delightful or more useful, none can more certainly enchain the heart by irresistible interest, or more widely diffuse instruction to every diversity of condition.
الصفحة 29 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
الصفحة 131 - Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night Burns on for evermore that quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light...
الصفحة 218 - The bounds of its investigations will be the geographical limits of Asia, and within these limits its enquiries will be extended to whatever is performed by Man, or produced by Nature.
الصفحة 111 - No. iv. page 205. features, are as worthy of credit as those of the travellers of any other time or nation whatever, at least those of Fa hian. With respect to the cui bono, if it be proved that Brahmanism is neither unfathomable in its antiquity, nor unchangeable in its character, we may safely infer that, by proper means, applied in a cautious, kindly, and forbearing spirit, such further changes may be effected, as will raise the intellectual standard of the Hindus, improve their moral and social...