Bombay Quarterly Review, Volume 1, Issue 1Smith, Taylor & Company, 1855 |
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... never meant for , and were never applied to irrigation at all . They were constructed at different times , mostly by the high Mogul of- ficers of the province , for their own honour and glory , and for the use of the people of the towns ...
... never meant for , and were never applied to irrigation at all . They were constructed at different times , mostly by the high Mogul of- ficers of the province , for their own honour and glory , and for the use of the people of the towns ...
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... never met your heroes of fiction , but I have seen many men and women - weak and imperfect the best of them ; to the utmost of my poor abilities , I have liere recorded the truth of my observa- tions ; I have tried to write not merely ...
... never met your heroes of fiction , but I have seen many men and women - weak and imperfect the best of them ; to the utmost of my poor abilities , I have liere recorded the truth of my observa- tions ; I have tried to write not merely ...
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... never have repeated at all , but that they are in truth prodigiously complimentary to the young lady whom they concern . " Has the beloved reader , in his experience of society , never heard similar remarks by good natured female ...
... never have repeated at all , but that they are in truth prodigiously complimentary to the young lady whom they concern . " Has the beloved reader , in his experience of society , never heard similar remarks by good natured female ...
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... never , never . " Poor Dobbin , poor old William ! That unlucky word had undone the work of many a year , the long laborious edifice of a life of love and constancy , raised too upon what secret and hidden foundations , wherein lay ...
... never , never . " Poor Dobbin , poor old William ! That unlucky word had undone the work of many a year , the long laborious edifice of a life of love and constancy , raised too upon what secret and hidden foundations , wherein lay ...
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... never spoke of his own gallant actions ; how Georgy's father trusted him beyond all other men , and had been constantly befriended by the good William . Why , when your Papa was a little boy , ' she said , he often told me that it was ...
... never spoke of his own gallant actions ; how Georgy's father trusted him beyond all other men , and had been constantly befriended by the good William . Why , when your Papa was a little boy , ' she said , he often told me that it was ...
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Page 360 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Page 134 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 401 - It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical, and to discard what is irrelevant.
Page 401 - He is at home in any society, he has common ground with every class; he knows when to speak and when to be silent; he is able to converse, he is able to listen; he can ask a question pertinently, and gain a lesson seasonably...
Page 401 - ... every class ; he knows when to speak and when to be silent ; he is able to converse, he is able to listen ; he can ask a question pertinently and gain a lesson seasonably when he has nothing to impart himself ; he is ever ready, yet never in the way ; he is a pleasant companion and a comrade you can depend upon ; he knows when to be serious and when to trifle, and he has a sure tact which enables him to trifle with gracefulness and to be serious with effect.
Page 237 - ... and perfect precision; and you find his work perfect of its kind: but if you ask him to think about any of those forms, to consider if he cannot find any better in his own head, he stops; his execution becomes hesitating; he thinks, and ten to one he thinks wrong; ten to one he makes a mistake in the first touch he gives to his work as a thinking being. But you have made a man of him for all that.
Page 384 - ... and pursuing the trains of thought which his mother wit suggests! How much healthier to wander into the fields, and there with the exiled Prince to find "tongues in the trees, books in the running brooks!
Page 238 - ... those ugly goblins, and formless monsters, and stern statues, anatomiless and rigid; but do not mock at them, for they are signs of the life and liberty of every workman who struck the stone; a freedom of thought, and rank in scale of being, such as no laws, no charters, no charities can secure; but which it must be the first aim of all Europe at this day to regain for her children.
Page 386 - If he engages in controversy of any kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, though less educated minds ; who, like blunt weapons, tear and hack instead of cutting clean, who mistake the point in argument, waste their strength on trifles, misconceive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than they find it.
Page 62 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank, and fiery Hun, Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave ! And charge with all thy chivalry ! Few, few, shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.