The Bombay Quarterly Review, Volume 5Smith, Taylor, & Company, 1857 - India |
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... military caste ? Surely this tells more significantly of a martial disposition than any modern stand- ing army can do . True , they entered not on foreign con- quest , foreign to the collection of countries we now call India . No , they ...
... military caste ? Surely this tells more significantly of a martial disposition than any modern stand- ing army can do . True , they entered not on foreign con- quest , foreign to the collection of countries we now call India . No , they ...
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... military proselytism were obeying those of Mohamed ; nor was theirs genuine Christianity ; -they only forged its signature to false credentials . Dr. Allen's view of the caste system , as it stands related to the Honourable Company's ...
... military proselytism were obeying those of Mohamed ; nor was theirs genuine Christianity ; -they only forged its signature to false credentials . Dr. Allen's view of the caste system , as it stands related to the Honourable Company's ...
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... military force which England finds it necessary still to support , in a highly efficient state , shows that all the inhabitants are not satisfied with the government exercised over them . " Wondrous conclusion ! When and in what country ...
... military force which England finds it necessary still to support , in a highly efficient state , shows that all the inhabitants are not satisfied with the government exercised over them . " Wondrous conclusion ! When and in what country ...
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... military force and pecuniary resources , and a great many , who had formerly been soldiers in the regular army , their regiments being now disbanded , were without any employment suited to their tastes and habits , and having no means ...
... military force and pecuniary resources , and a great many , who had formerly been soldiers in the regular army , their regiments being now disbanded , were without any employment suited to their tastes and habits , and having no means ...
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... military , medical staff , medical schools , dispensaries , vaccination , and it will be easy to tell on which side the advantage lies . Of the hundred public baths we shall give them the full advantage , remembering that these could ...
... military , medical staff , medical schools , dispensaries , vaccination , and it will be easy to tell on which side the advantage lies . Of the hundred public baths we shall give them the full advantage , remembering that these could ...
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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.