Choice Literature, Volume 1J. B. Alden, 1880 - Choice literature |
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... position is thor- oughly recognised by all statesmen who occupy themselves with Indian affairs . I do not for a moment delude myself with the idea that we have succeeded in gaining the affections of the natives . No foreign rulers who ...
... position is thor- oughly recognised by all statesmen who occupy themselves with Indian affairs . I do not for a moment delude myself with the idea that we have succeeded in gaining the affections of the natives . No foreign rulers who ...
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... position and great success in history have engendered . The southern races of Europe , the Spanish and Portuguese , have shown no reluctance to inter- mix freely with the native races of America , India , and the Philippines , such as ...
... position and great success in history have engendered . The southern races of Europe , the Spanish and Portuguese , have shown no reluctance to inter- mix freely with the native races of America , India , and the Philippines , such as ...
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... position is afforded by the late inquiry into the causes of the riots among the cul- tivators of the Deccan . It has been one of the pretensions of British administration that they have instituted for the first time in India pure and ...
... position is afforded by the late inquiry into the causes of the riots among the cul- tivators of the Deccan . It has been one of the pretensions of British administration that they have instituted for the first time in India pure and ...
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... position where I was enabled to take an impartial view of what was going on around me , I am of opinion that a bright future presents itself , and , if I could see my way more clearly on the very 14 THE FUTURE OF INDIA .
... position where I was enabled to take an impartial view of what was going on around me , I am of opinion that a bright future presents itself , and , if I could see my way more clearly on the very 14 THE FUTURE OF INDIA .
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... position of a freeman , and he would not exchange it for that which Mr. Hyndman appears to desiderate . E. PERRY , in Nineteenth Century . A COUP D'ÉTAT . Ir little seeds by slow degree Put forth their leaves and flowers unheard , Our ...
... position of a freeman , and he would not exchange it for that which Mr. Hyndman appears to desiderate . E. PERRY , in Nineteenth Century . A COUP D'ÉTAT . Ir little seeds by slow degree Put forth their leaves and flowers unheard , Our ...
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Page 386 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Page 16 - And it is our further will that, so far as may be, our subjects, of whatever race or creed, be freely and impartially admitted to offices in our service, the duties of which they may be qualified, by their education, ability, and integrity, duly to discharge.
Page 466 - Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the King of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
Page 530 - He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord ; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
Page 466 - And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed unto him ; and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.
Page 434 - I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
Page 491 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 657 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 389 - It is charged and we fire, and they run. Praise to our Indian brothers, and let the dark face have his due! Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few, Fought with the bravest among us, and drove them, and smote them and slew, That ever upon the topmost roof our banner in India blew. Men will forget what we suffer and not what we do. We can fight! But to be soldier all day and be sentinel all thro' the night — Ever the mine and assault, our sallies, their lying alarms.
Page 159 - Midst others of less note came one frail form, A phantom among men, companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm, Whose thunder is its knell.