The History of British India, Volum 1J. Madden, 1848 |
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Pàgina xxvi
... evidence from a chaos of rude materials , it is yet not the most difficult of his operations , nor that which requires the highest and rarest qualifi- cations of the mind . It is the business of the his- torian not merely to display the ...
... evidence from a chaos of rude materials , it is yet not the most difficult of his operations , nor that which requires the highest and rarest qualifi- cations of the mind . It is the business of the his- torian not merely to display the ...
Pàgina xxxii
... evidence I have adduced is not sufficient to de- termine . I am , at the same time , aware , that in regard to some things there are documents which were not within my reach ; and , concerning the latter part of the history , in ...
... evidence I have adduced is not sufficient to de- termine . I am , at the same time , aware , that in regard to some things there are documents which were not within my reach ; and , concerning the latter part of the history , in ...
Pàgina 33
... evidence that it would be of no service to their trade : " secondly , the charge , " he says , " is greater than the trade can bear ; for to maintain a garrison will eat out your profit ; a war and traffic are incompatible . By my By my ...
... evidence that it would be of no service to their trade : " secondly , the charge , " he says , " is greater than the trade can bear ; for to maintain a garrison will eat out your profit ; a war and traffic are incompatible . By my By my ...
Pàgina 51
... evidence that it ever was paid . The animosities between the English and Dutch were now approaching to a crisis in the islands . The English complained of oppression , and were so weak as to find themselves at the mercy of their rivals ...
... evidence that it ever was paid . The animosities between the English and Dutch were now approaching to a crisis in the islands . The English complained of oppression , and were so weak as to find themselves at the mercy of their rivals ...
Pàgina 52
... evidence of a judicial trial . Had simple extermination been their object , a more quiet and safe expedient pre- The Dutch , in their vindication , stated that the English intrigued with the Portuguese , and underhand assisted the ...
... evidence of a judicial trial . Had simple extermination been their object , a more quiet and safe expedient pre- The Dutch , in their vindication , stated that the English intrigued with the Portuguese , and underhand assisted the ...
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Pàgina 481 - ... 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 228 - 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 514 - ... each other; and above all, a treatment of the female sex full of . confidence, respect and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a...
Pàgina 304 - 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 304 - 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 483 - 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 397 - 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 292 - Neque quisquam agri modum certum aut fines habet proprios ; sed magistratus ac principes in annos singulos gentibus cognationibusque hominum , qui una coierunt , quantum et quo loco visum est agri adtribuunt atque anno post alio transire cogunt.
Pàgina 376 - 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 121 - England, which were a heap of nonsense, compiled by a few ignorant country gentlemen, who hardly knew how to make laws for the good government of their own private families, much less for the regulating of Companies and foreign commerce.