 | 1828 - 722 pàgines
...persevering.' (Vol. ii. p. 307.) ' Of the people, so far as their natural character is concerned, I hare been led to form, on the whole, a very favourable...attention to their wants and feelings than almost any men M horn I have met with.' (Vol. ii. p. 369-) ' One fact indeed during this journey has been impressed... | |
 | Robert Rickards - 1829 - 682 pàgines
...tempers " almost uniformly gentle and patient, and " more easily affected by kindness and atten" tion to their wants and feelings than almost " any men whom I have met with." (Bishop Heber's Journal, vol. ii. p. 369.) " But though I fully believe the influence " of Britain... | |
 | 1834 - 472 pàgines
...led to form, on the whole, a very favourable opinion. They 115 Narrative, &c. vol. iii, p. 264, 265. have unhappily many of the vices arising from slavery,...their wants and feelings, than almost any men whom 1 have met with. Their faults seem to arise from the hateful superstitions to which they are subject,... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1835 - 290 pàgines
...and immoral and erroneous systems * Heber's Travels in India, p. 229. t Ibid. p. 230. t Ibid. p. 240. of religion. But they are men of high and gallant...feelings than almost any men whom I have met with."* " In the same holy city, I had visited another college, founded lately by a wealthy Hindoo banker,... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1835 - 290 pàgines
...tempers almost uniformly gentle and patient, and more easily affected by kindness and attention to theijr wants and feelings than almost any men whom I have met with."* " In the same holy city, I had visited another college, founded lately by n wealthy Hindoo banker,... | |
 | George Thompson - 1840 - 222 pàgines
...knowledge and improvement, with a remarkable aptitude for the abstract sciences, geometry, asrronomy, &c., and for the imitative arts, painting and sculpture....feelings than almost any men whom I have met with. I will state another authority still more satisfactory to me, as his residence in India was longer,... | |
 | George Thompson - 1840 - 230 pàgines
...remarkable aptitude for the abstract sciences, geometry, as:ronomy, &.c., and for the imitative aits, painting and sculpture. They are sober, industrious,...feelings than almost any men whom I have met with. I will state another authority still more satisfactory to me, as his residence in India was longer,... | |
 | James Mill - 1840 - 650 pàgines
...and improvement ; with a remarkable aptitude for the abstract sciences, geometry, astronomy, See. ; and for the imitative arts, painting and sculpture....attention to their wants and feelings than almost any men I have met with." Ibid. ii. 369. And in his charge to his clergy at Caleutta in 1824, he observes,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 622 pàgines
...knowledge and improvement, with a remarkable aptitude for the abstract sciences, geometry, astromony, &c., and for the imitative arts, painting and sculpture....unfavourable state of society in which they are placed. " More has been done, and more successfully, to obviate these evils in the Presidency of Bombay, than... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 754 pàgines
...apartments." The following is a summary of his opinion of the people, which follows in the same letter: — " Of the people, so far as their natural character is...unfavourable state of society in which they are placed. " More has been done, and more successfully, to obviate these evils in the Presidency of Bombay, than... | |
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Of the people, so far as their natural character is concerned, I have been led to form, on the whole, a very favourable opinion. They have, unhappily, many of the vices arising from slavery, from an unsettled state of society, and immoral and erroneous... 
