The Bombay Quarterly Review, Volume 5Smith, Taylor, & Company, 1857 - India |
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... effect a cure . We have never heard any complaints of pain attending this leprosy . With the ordinary black leprosy of India , it is otherwise occasional inflammations occur , and mortifications of fingers and toes . We have pretty ...
... effect a cure . We have never heard any complaints of pain attending this leprosy . With the ordinary black leprosy of India , it is otherwise occasional inflammations occur , and mortifications of fingers and toes . We have pretty ...
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... effect by his own officers , as should be conducive to the prosperity of his subjects , and calculated to secure the lives and property of the inhabitants . The English had fulfilled their part of the treaty , but the Nabob had ...
... effect by his own officers , as should be conducive to the prosperity of his subjects , and calculated to secure the lives and property of the inhabitants . The English had fulfilled their part of the treaty , but the Nabob had ...
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... effects they may have produced in the stormy times of England's struggles for ascen- dancy . Now to suppose that any economic measures could con- vert these men's vicious and vagrant habits into a public benefit , instead of a pest and ...
... effects they may have produced in the stormy times of England's struggles for ascen- dancy . Now to suppose that any economic measures could con- vert these men's vicious and vagrant habits into a public benefit , instead of a pest and ...
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... effect of opposition to Christianity . It had this effect by leading the people to misunderstand the motives of Government , and by leaving men , who followed their mental convictions , at the entire mercy ( or rather its negative ) of ...
... effect of opposition to Christianity . It had this effect by leading the people to misunderstand the motives of Government , and by leaving men , who followed their mental convictions , at the entire mercy ( or rather its negative ) of ...
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... effect was to permit the utmost amount of intolerance . A truer view of toleration was attained when the Court of ... effects of this righteous law need no exposition . --- We refuse our assent to the statement that " England has yet ...
... effect was to permit the utmost amount of intolerance . A truer view of toleration was attained when the Court of ... effects of this righteous law need no exposition . --- We refuse our assent to the statement that " England has yet ...
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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.