The Calcutta Review, Volume 18University of Calcutta., 1852 - India |
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... residences of all who have votes to give ; he knows their histories , their families , their characters ; if he cannot approach them directly , he is sure to be familiar with some indirect means of approach , which may be equally cogent ...
... residences of all who have votes to give ; he knows their histories , their families , their characters ; if he cannot approach them directly , he is sure to be familiar with some indirect means of approach , which may be equally cogent ...
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... resident in Bengal must have seen the armless stump of an ill - shaped image , dignified with the appellation of the " lord of the world . " On the occasion of the bathing festival , this ugly divinity , wrapped up with cloth , is ...
... resident in Bengal must have seen the armless stump of an ill - shaped image , dignified with the appellation of the " lord of the world . " On the occasion of the bathing festival , this ugly divinity , wrapped up with cloth , is ...
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... residence of the god . On this throne is placed the black deity , decked with gay ornaments . Like a child rocked in its cradle , the playful shepherd of Gokul is made to swing in his chair of state . The god , after being rocked to his ...
... residence of the god . On this throne is placed the black deity , decked with gay ornaments . Like a child rocked in its cradle , the playful shepherd of Gokul is made to swing in his chair of state . The god , after being rocked to his ...
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... resident in Calcutta , or any other city of India , has often witnessed . The arm of one Sannyasi bored by a spear ; a long iron bar put through the slit tongue of a second , which he holds by both his hands ; a third dancing in the ...
... resident in Calcutta , or any other city of India , has often witnessed . The arm of one Sannyasi bored by a spear ; a long iron bar put through the slit tongue of a second , which he holds by both his hands ; a third dancing in the ...
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... resident tenants , having no claim to the property in the soil . This class may be divided into the Khaikar and Kaini ór Khurni ; the Khaikar enjoyed an hereditary , though not transferrable right of the cultivation ; the Khurnis were ...
... resident tenants , having no claim to the property in the soil . This class may be divided into the Khaikar and Kaini ór Khurni ; the Khaikar enjoyed an hereditary , though not transferrable right of the cultivation ; the Khurnis were ...
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Page 266 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem! may my ' right hand forget its cunning...
Page xxv - All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Page 114 - Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially...
Page 206 - In order to cultivate and improve the relations of amity, and peace hereby established between the two Governments, it is agreed, that accredited ministers, retaining an escort, or safeguard of fifty men, from each, shall reside at the Durbar of the other, who shall be permitted to purchase, or to build a suitable place of residence, of permanent materials ; and a Commercial Treaty, upon principles of reciprocal advantage, will be entered into by the two high contracting Powers.
Page 476 - Facilities of official advancement can little affect the bulk of the people under any Government, and perhaps least under a good Government. It is not by holding out incentives to official ambition, but by repressing crime, by securing and guarding property, by creating confidence, by ensuring to industry the fruit of its labour, by protecting men in the undisturbed enjoyment of their rights, and in the unfettered exercise of their faculties, that Governments best minister to the public wealth and...
Page 300 - I have been at church, my dear girl, in my new palanquin, (the mode of genteel conveyance) where all ladies are approached, by sanction of ancient custom, by all gentlemen indiscriminately, known or unknown, with offers of their hand to conduct them to their seat ; accordingly, those gentlemen who wish to change their condition (which, between ourselves, are chiefly old fellows, for the young...
Page 89 - ... villagers nevertheless return whenever the power of peaceable possession revives : a generation may pass away, but the succeeding generation will return ; the sons will take the place of their fathers, the same site for the village, the same position for the houses, the same lands will be occupied by the...
Page 304 - India should be governed from a palace, ' not from a counting-house, with the ideas of a prince, not ' with those of a retail-dealer in muslins and indigo.
Page 235 - He moved — in the •"holy fields Over -whose acres walked those blessed feet Which, eighteen hundred years ago, were nailed For our advantage, on the bitter cross...
Page 473 - ... trustworthiness. Hitherto they have not been admitted to any situations in which there is not a controlling European authority over them; but there is hardly any situation, admitting of that control, to which they are not now eligible; or if there be any such, there is a constant tendency to open such situations to them. They have now, especially in the Bengal and Agra provinces, almost the whole of the administration of justice in the first instance, subject to appeal to Europeans. They are...