The History of British India, Том 1Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817 - 777 страници |
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James Mill. A history of India , therefore , to be good for any thing , must , it was evident , be , what , for want ... things given by the historian , as things really done , really said , or really thought . The second is , the matter ...
James Mill. A history of India , therefore , to be good for any thing , must , it was evident , be , what , for want ... things given by the historian , as things really done , really said , or really thought . The second is , the matter ...
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... thing of India , and its affairs . A man who has any considerable acquaintance with them , without having been forced to acquire it by the offices he has filled , is scarcely perhaps to be found . The same must continue to be the case ...
... thing of India , and its affairs . A man who has any considerable acquaintance with them , without having been forced to acquire it by the offices he has filled , is scarcely perhaps to be found . The same must continue to be the case ...
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... thing further . But , as no fact is more certain , so none is of more importance , in the science of human nature , than this ; that the powers of observation , in every individual , are exceedingly limited ; and that it is only by ...
... thing further . But , as no fact is more certain , so none is of more importance , in the science of human nature , than this ; that the powers of observation , in every individual , are exceedingly limited ; and that it is only by ...
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... thing of importance is expressed in writing , a man who is duly qualified may attain more knowledge of India , in one year , in his closet in England , than he could obtain during the course of the longest life , by the use of his eyes ...
... thing of importance is expressed in writing , a man who is duly qualified may attain more knowledge of India , in one year , in his closet in England , than he could obtain during the course of the longest life , by the use of his eyes ...
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... thing has com- monly been observed by one witness , another thing has been observed by another witness ; the same thing has been observed in one point of view by one , in another point of view , by another witness ; some things are ...
... thing has com- monly been observed by one witness , another thing has been observed by another witness ; the same thing has been observed in one point of view by one , in another point of view , by another witness ; some things are ...
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Страница 188 - The inhabitants give themselves no trouble about the breaking up and divisions 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...
Страница 114 - Brahman springs to light, he is born above the world, the chief of all creatures, assigned to guard the treasury of duties, religious and 1 " Institutes,
Страница 201 - ... 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.
Страница 201 - The waters are called nara, because they were the production of Nara, or the spirit of God ; and since they were his first ayana, or place of motion, he thence is named Narayana, or moving on the waters.
Страница 180 - Sed privati ac separati agri apud eos nihil est, neque longius anno remanere uno in loco incolendi causa licet. Neque multum frumento, sed maximam partem lacte atque pecore vivunt, multumque sunt in venationibus...
Страница 202 - 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.
Страница 180 - 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.
Страница 239 - 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.
Страница 77 - 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.
Страница 201 - In that egg the great power sat inactive a whole year of the creator, at the close of which, by his thought alone, he caused the egg to divide itself. " And from its two divisions he framed the heaven above and the earth beneath; in the midst he placed the subtile ether, the eight regions, and the permanent receptacle of waters.