Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official, Volume 2J. Hatchard and son, 1844 |
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Agra Akbar army beautiful beegas Begum believe Bhurtpore brother building Buldeo capital CHAPTER chief Chro civil Colonel command court cultivators Deeg Delhi deserted Dholepore district duties Emperor European father feel Ferozepore flogged four Fraser Ganges gentleman groves Gwalior Hindoo honour horse India Jâts Jemadar Jubbulpore Jumna Koran Kureem Khan labour land Lord Lord Lake magistrate Mahomed Mahomedan Mahrattas marble medans Meenar Meerut ment miles military mosque murder native officers Nawab Nawab Sahib never NOOR JEHAN palace passed poor prince public establishments punishment Rajah regiment reign religious residence revenue road robbers rupees rupees a month secure Seikh Shah Jehan Shumshoodeen sipahees society soldiers soon sovereign stands temples territories Thanadar thing thought thousand rupees tion told tomb took towns trees troops truth Tymour Uneea village Vindhya range whole
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Page 333 - ... and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Page 278 - Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise; Think only what concerns thee and thy being...
Page 105 - I shall be pardoned for calling it by so harsh a name as madness, when it is considered that opposition to reason deserves that name, and is really madness ; and there is scarce a man so free from it, but that if he should always, on all occasions, argue or do as in some cases he constantly does, would not be thought fitter for Bedlam than civil conversation.
Page 82 - I see around me here Things which you cannot see : we die, my friend, Nor we alone, but that which each man loved And prized in his peculiar nook of earth '; . Dies with him, or is changed ; and very soon Even of the good is no memorial left.
Page 82 - Indica), and the gods are supposed to delight to sit among its leaves, and listen to the music of their rustling. The deponent takes one of these leaves in his hand, and invokes the god, who sits above him, to crush him, or those dear to him, as he crushes the leaf in his hand, if he speaks anything but the truth. He then plucks and crushes the leaf, and states what he has to say. The...
Page 60 - The Hindus are religious, affable, cheerful, lovers of justice, given to retirement, able in business, admirers of truth, grateful and of unbounded fidelity ; and their soldiers know not what it is to fly from the field of battle.:]: And even in quite modern times the Mohammedans seem willing to admit that the Hindus, at.
Page 58 - Jesus, on whom be peace, has said, The world is merely a bridge ; you are to pass over it and not to build your dwellings upon it.
Page 333 - ... chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation;...
Page 345 - The conduct of the Company's servants, upon this occasion, furnishes one of the most remarkable instances upon record, of the power of interest to extinguish all sense of justice, and even of shame.
Page 41 - Shena ; and he is very capable of talking upon all subjects of philosophy, literature, science, and the arts, and very much inclined to do so, and of understanding the nature of the improvements that have been made in them in modern times.