Recollections, Volum 2Macmillan, 1917 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 362 - He comes with Western winds, with evening's wandering airs, With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars. Winds take a pensive tone, and stars a tender fire, And visions rise, and change, that kill me with desire.
Pàgina 370 - Providence internal tranquillity shall be restored it is our earnest desire to stimulate the peaceful industry of India, to promote works of public utility and improvement, and to administer the government for the benefit of all our subjects resident therein. In their prosperity will be our strength, in their contentment our security, and in their gratitude our best reward. And may the God of all power grant to us and to those in authority under us strength to carry out these our wishes for the good...
Pàgina 114 - I am of opinion that there is not a greater folly than to contract too great and intimate a friendship, which must always leave the survivor miserable.
Pàgina 138 - The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise. To hear the lute well touched, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air ? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise.
Pàgina 172 - Not one whit more than you do I think it desirable or possible, or even conceivable, to adapt English political institutions to the nations who inhabit India.
Pàgina 366 - Bacon who penned that deep appeal from thought to feeling, " the nobler a soul is, the more objects of compassion it hath." This of the great Elizabethan was one prevailing note in our Victorian age.
Pàgina 365 - His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Pàgina 221 - We must not forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, at first no bigger than a man's hand, but which, growing bigger and bigger, may at last threaten to overwhelm us with ruin.
Pàgina 100 - I have grown to manhood and am now growing old with the growth of this system of government in my native land, have watched its advances, or what some would call its encroachments, gradual and irresistible as those of a glacier, have been an earwitness to the forebodings of wise and good and timid men, and have lived to see those forebodings belied by the course of events, which is apt to show itself humorously...
Pàgina 114 - He used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn ; it looked like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion in it.