The Bombay Quarterly Review, Volume 5Smith, Taylor, & Company, 1857 - India |
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... consequences it involves . But we say candidly , these questions , put as they have been by high political friends to ourselves , may astound and silence , but do not satisfy us . Where lies the doing of the evil ? -in letting existing ...
... consequences it involves . But we say candidly , these questions , put as they have been by high political friends to ourselves , may astound and silence , but do not satisfy us . Where lies the doing of the evil ? -in letting existing ...
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... consequences of the doctrine of transmigration , in teaching men to refer the good or evil of the present life to karm - that is , the works performed in a former birth , —thus freeing them from the painful but salutary monitions of ...
... consequences of the doctrine of transmigration , in teaching men to refer the good or evil of the present life to karm - that is , the works performed in a former birth , —thus freeing them from the painful but salutary monitions of ...
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... consequence is that dams become fewer , and if the river flows over a large extent of open plain , are found to cease altogether . During the rains the quantity of water is so great , that leakage is comparatively of little consequence ...
... consequence is that dams become fewer , and if the river flows over a large extent of open plain , are found to cease altogether . During the rains the quantity of water is so great , that leakage is comparatively of little consequence ...
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... consequence is , that in the talooka there are ninety - seven dams , and the remains of many others . At present this system of irrigation is confined almost exclusively to the Western Districts of Khandesh , comprising Pimpulnair ...
... consequence is , that in the talooka there are ninety - seven dams , and the remains of many others . At present this system of irrigation is confined almost exclusively to the Western Districts of Khandesh , comprising Pimpulnair ...
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... consequence of which is the increased cultivation of sugar - cane ; and as the richer villagers , who are few in numbers , can alone attempt this , their poorer neighbours , who are also debarred to a great extent by the rates from ...
... consequence of which is the increased cultivation of sugar - cane ; and as the richer villagers , who are few in numbers , can alone attempt this , their poorer neighbours , who are also debarred to a great extent by the rates from ...
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Page 381 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Page 380 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools; This...
Page 376 - Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Page 374 - Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Page 375 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads, and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these...
Page 383 - On the stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage. While we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear : we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice of daughters and storms.
Page 259 - Sometime, we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air : thou hast seen these signs ; They are black vesper's pageants.
Page 383 - In the aberrations of his reason we discover a mighty irregular power of reasoning, immethodized from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting its powers, as the wind blows where it listeth, at will upon the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks, or tones, to do with that sublime identification of his age with that of the heavens themselves, when, in his reproaches to them for conniving at the injustice of his children, he reminds them that " they themselves are old "? What gesture...
Page 381 - Lear. Be your tears wet? Yes, 'faith. I pray, weep not: If you have poison for me I will drink it. I know you do not love me ; for your sisters Have, as I do remember, done me wrong : You have some cause, they have not. Cor. No cause, no cause.
Page 381 - Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; and, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.