Our Last Years in IndiaSmith, Elder, 1862 - 331 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... Poor dear London . Remembering November and its fogs , what could one say ? Yet I was not prepared to hear the case put so strongly . Alas , for that " divine self - satisfaction , " which is the Chinaman's highest ideal of happiness ...
... Poor dear London . Remembering November and its fogs , what could one say ? Yet I was not prepared to hear the case put so strongly . Alas , for that " divine self - satisfaction , " which is the Chinaman's highest ideal of happiness ...
Pàgina 24
... poor manage to be so beautiful I cannot imagine . All seem in holiday clothing ; even your drago- man who waits on you is a very Dives - quite imposing with purple and fine linen , or their Turkish equivalents . Everybody , everything ...
... poor manage to be so beautiful I cannot imagine . All seem in holiday clothing ; even your drago- man who waits on you is a very Dives - quite imposing with purple and fine linen , or their Turkish equivalents . Everybody , everything ...
Pàgina 42
... poor little children entered the same house as strangers and fugitives , escaping for our lives . The warmth and kindness , however , of the reception were on both occasions the same . In the evening we drove round the station , where ...
... poor little children entered the same house as strangers and fugitives , escaping for our lives . The warmth and kindness , however , of the reception were on both occasions the same . In the evening we drove round the station , where ...
Pàgina 50
... poor boy's reason gave way - struck down by encounter with a power of whose nature it had no experience nor cognizance . Who can contend with a being whom mortal aim , however accurate , fails to reach ? The ghostship was an imposture ...
... poor boy's reason gave way - struck down by encounter with a power of whose nature it had no experience nor cognizance . Who can contend with a being whom mortal aim , however accurate , fails to reach ? The ghostship was an imposture ...
Pàgina 52
... poor old things , and with something of the incongruity of senile harlequinism . Very brilliant were their housings of blue , red , and green ; very resplendent their beautifully shaded pink tails ( ! ) , and sumptuous their heavy ...
... poor old things , and with something of the incongruity of senile harlequinism . Very brilliant were their housings of blue , red , and green ; very resplendent their beautifully shaded pink tails ( ! ) , and sumptuous their heavy ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
accustomed Ahmednuggur Ajunta Akola ancient animal appears Aurungabad Author avatars ayeh beautiful believe Bombay Brahmans Buddhist Budh called caste cavalry caves chaitya character Charlotte Brontë cloth colour course Demy 8vo divine doctrine doubt dress earth Edition Ellora Ellora Caves England English European eyes fact faith Fcap Fcap 8vo fire flower Gautema ghost goddess gods green head Hindu honour Hosain Hyderabad hymns Illustrations imagine India Jainas John William Kaye Kaaba Kali look Mahabharata Max Müller Menu Mohammed Mohammedan Mohurrum Müller Mussulman native nature never night observed officers once origin Parsees perhaps poor Post 8vo priests principal prophet Rama Ramayana religion religious sacred sacrifices Saheb saints Sanskrit sculptures sect seems servants Shias Siva sometimes spirit station stone Subah Sudra supposed temple tion told tomb tree Triad truth Varuna Vedas Vedic Vishnu vols worship Yelgaum
Passatges populars
Pàgina 162 - God, to tell us our way. 9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer : for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.) 10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said ; come, let us go.
Pàgina 168 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Pàgina 29 - And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
Pàgina 161 - If I go along trembling like a cloud driven by the wind, have mercy, almighty, have mercy.