Forty years in the world; or, Sketches and tales of a soldier's life, by the author of Fifteen years in India, 2권 |
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... living , and in conforming to the cus- toms of their caste , render it easy to govern them ; and the panjait is all - sufficient for every exigency . In different parts of the country I attended these simple native courts ; and it is my ...
... living , and in conforming to the cus- toms of their caste , render it easy to govern them ; and the panjait is all - sufficient for every exigency . In different parts of the country I attended these simple native courts ; and it is my ...
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... living monsters , leaning against the walls ; some with elephants ' faces , others with twenty heads , and as many arms as Briareus : here stood Suraya , the god of the sun , drawn in his chariot by winged horses ; there Boodah sat ...
... living monsters , leaning against the walls ; some with elephants ' faces , others with twenty heads , and as many arms as Briareus : here stood Suraya , the god of the sun , drawn in his chariot by winged horses ; there Boodah sat ...
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... living which I contemplated as essential to comfort was one that required means which I might not have at command ; for my father , in his letters , though profuse in general promises , had not proposed any specific allowance ; and ...
... living which I contemplated as essential to comfort was one that required means which I might not have at command ; for my father , in his letters , though profuse in general promises , had not proposed any specific allowance ; and ...
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... living in London . I have , ' said he , this room , and the benefit of society here . The lady of the house is reduced in her circumstances ; she lets lodgings , and keeps an ordinary . In the course of the evening I generally drop in ...
... living in London . I have , ' said he , this room , and the benefit of society here . The lady of the house is reduced in her circumstances ; she lets lodgings , and keeps an ordinary . In the course of the evening I generally drop in ...
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... living , his shattered affairs , and every thing he saved would be so much doubly gained ; but as a sinking man catches at a straw , so does an embarrassed one seek assistance from appearance , which is equally weak : in keeping up what ...
... living , his shattered affairs , and every thing he saved would be so much doubly gained ; but as a sinking man catches at a straw , so does an embarrassed one seek assistance from appearance , which is equally weak : in keeping up what ...
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amusement answered appearance Arima attorney Bappo barrister beautiful behold bosom brahmans bright eyes charms cheer Chittamun Doss coach comfort countenance court Dash daughter dear delight dress Dublin Dundalk Edward exclaimed face father favour feel felt fond fortune Futteh Amul Singh girls Green Castle grief hand happy Hattima head hear heard heart heaven Hindoo honour hope husband India Ireland justice knew lady laugh living look Lord Mountwilliam lordship Matilda melancholy miles mind Mootee Moota mother native nature nearly neighbours never Newry night noble numbers opium panjait passed peeping pleasure poor profes purdah racter Raja rich Rockites round saurie scene seat seemed sight sister smile soon soul spirit suttee sweet Table Bay tears thee thing thou thought tion town Warrenpoint whilst whole wife wish young
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135 페이지 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
215 페이지 - O friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace...
217 페이지 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
167 페이지 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
137 페이지 - When Heaven would kindly set us free, And earth's enchantment end ; It takes the most effectual means, And robs us of a friend.
296 페이지 - Such is the powre of that sweet passion, That it all sordid basenesse doth expell, And the refyned mynd doth newly fashion Unto a fairer forme, which now doth dwell In his high thought, that would it selfe excell, Which he beholding still with constant sight, Admires the mirrour of so heavenly light.
46 페이지 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
127 페이지 - WE may roam through this world, like a child at a feast. Who but sips of a sweet, and then flies to the rest ; And, when pleasure begins to grow dull in the east, We may order our wings, and be off to the west...
95 페이지 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...
38 페이지 - There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are linked in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing, and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die...