A History of Civilization in Ancient India: Based on Sanscrit Literature, Volum 1

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Thacker, Spink and Company, 1889 - 810 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 72 - These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael ; The stranger came with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land. Where dwell we now ? See rudely swell Crag over crag, and fell o'er fell. Ask we this savage hill we tread, For...
Pàgina ii - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Pàgina 122 - Aditi, an ancient god or goddess, is in reality the earliest name invented to express the Infinite ; not the Infinite as the result of a long process of abstract reasoning, but the visible Infinite, visible by the naked eye, the endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky.
Pàgina 1 - Mr. Kipling knows and appreciates the English in India, and is a born story-teller and a man of humour into the bargain. ... It would be hard to find better reading.
Pàgina 291 - When to a man who understands, the Self has become all things, what sorrow, what trouble can there be to him who once beheld that unity ? 8.
Pàgina 289 - I am this or that river, in the same manner, my son, all these creatures, when they have come back from the True, know not that they have come back from the True. Whatever these creatures are here, whether a lion, or a wolf, or a boar, or a worm, or a midge, or a gnat, or a mosquito, that they become again and again.
Pàgina 300 - From every sentence deep, original, and sublime thoughts arise, and the whole is pervaded by a high and holy and earnest spirit.
Pàgina 289 - Place this salt in water, and then wait on me in the morning.' The son did as he was commanded. The father said to him : ' Bring me the salt, which you placed in the water last night.
Pàgina 7 - ... are in themselves probably about the best examples of medical works written for non-professional readers. The style of each is simple, and as free as possible from technical expressions. The modes of treatment recommended are generally those most likely to yield good results in the hands of laymen ; and throughout each volume the important fact is kept constantly before the mind of the reader, that the volume he is using is but a poor substitute for personal professional advice, for which it...
Pàgina 8 - Field. —"Of the many popular veterinary books which have come under our notice, this is certainly one of the most scientific and reliable. The...

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