The History of British India, Volum 1J. Madden, 1848 |
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Pàgina iii
James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson. pleteness of the whole . It is also true , that there are many circumstances in the position of the servants of the East India Company , which are unpropitious to the developement and cultivation of the ...
James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson. pleteness of the whole . It is also true , that there are many circumstances in the position of the servants of the East India Company , which are unpropitious to the developement and cultivation of the ...
Pàgina xx
... sive subject can ever be acquired . Of so extensive and complicated a scene as India , how small a por- tion would the whole period of his life enable any man to observe ! If , then , we may assume it as an XX PREFACE .
... sive subject can ever be acquired . Of so extensive and complicated a scene as India , how small a por- tion would the whole period of his life enable any man to observe ! If , then , we may assume it as an XX PREFACE .
Pàgina xxii
... whole , if his information is totally de- rived from testimony , than if some little portion of it is derived from the senses . It is well known , how fatal an effect on our judgments is exerted by those impulses , called partial ...
... whole , if his information is totally de- rived from testimony , than if some little portion of it is derived from the senses . It is well known , how fatal an effect on our judgments is exerted by those impulses , called partial ...
Pàgina xxiii
... whole . decision is to observe minutely ; a very small portion comparatively is all that he will be able to observe . What aid can he derive from this , in writing a his- tory , has partly been already unfolded , and may for the rest be ...
... whole . decision is to observe minutely ; a very small portion comparatively is all that he will be able to observe . What aid can he derive from this , in writing a his- tory , has partly been already unfolded , and may for the rest be ...
Pàgina xxvii
... whole field of legislation , the whole field of judicature , the whole field of administration , down to war , commerce , and diplomacy , ought to be familiar to his mind.1 What then ? it will be said , and most reasonably said ; do you ...
... whole field of legislation , the whole field of judicature , the whole field of administration , down to war , commerce , and diplomacy , ought to be familiar to his mind.1 What then ? it will be said , and most reasonably said ; do you ...
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Pàgina 491 - The waters are called nara, because they were the production of NAHA, or the Spirit of God ; and, since they were his first ayana, or place of motion, he thence is named NARAYANA, or moving on the waters.
Pàgina 491 - ... then the sole self-existing power, himself undiscerned, but making this world discernible, with five elements and other principles of nature, appeared with undiminished glory, expanding his idea, or dispelling the gloom. He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person.
Pàgina 312 - Under this simple form of municipal government, the inhabitants of the country have lived from time immemorial. The boundaries of the villages have been but seldom altered ; and though the villages themselves have been sometimes injured and even desolated by war, famine and disease, the same name, the same limits, the same interests and even the same families, have continued for ages. The inhabitants...
Pàgina 312 - The inhabitants give themselves no trouble about the breaking up and division of kingdoms. While the village remains entire, they care not to what power it is transferred, or to what sovereign it devolves. Its internal economy remains unchanged.
Pàgina 493 - He gave being to time and the divisions of time, to the stars also, and to the planets, to rivers, oceans, and mountains, to level plains, and uneven valleys.
Pàgina 407 - Let him slide backwards and forwards on the ground ; or let him stand a whole day on tiptoe ; or let him continue in motion rising and sitting alternately : but at sunrise, at noon, and at sunset, let him go to the waters and bathe. In the hot season, let him sit exposed to five fires ; four blazing around him, with the sun above : in the rains, let him stand uncovered, without even a mantle, and where the clouds pour the heaviest showers ; in the cold season, let him wear humid vesture ; and let...
Pàgina 386 - We must not be surprised," he says, " at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern Varanes [Benares] mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways and by a multitude of fanciful names.
Pàgina 446 - BY a girl, or by a young woman, or by a woman advanced in years, nothing must be done, even in her own dwelling place, according to her mere pleasure : 148.
Pàgina 236 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury...
Pàgina 524 - But if a good system of agriculture, unrivalled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing and arithmetic, the general practice of hospitality and charity amongst each other, and, above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a civilized people — then the Hindus are not inferior to the nations of Europe;...