Fosteriana, Consisting of Thoughts, Reflections, and Criticisms, of John FosterBohn, 1858 - 560 страници |
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... whole group , than of some elegant particularity of dress or attitude in one of the figures . The histories adopted as the foundation of these lectures , involve some tender and many tragical scenes , and afford excellent opportunities ...
... whole group , than of some elegant particularity of dress or attitude in one of the figures . The histories adopted as the foundation of these lectures , involve some tender and many tragical scenes , and afford excellent opportunities ...
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... whole life . Having set in for a statesman , his studies , his habits of thinking , and the cast of his language , took the character appropriate to office . The whole intellectual and moral man grew into a political shape , wonderfully ...
... whole life . Having set in for a statesman , his studies , his habits of thinking , and the cast of his language , took the character appropriate to office . The whole intellectual and moral man grew into a political shape , wonderfully ...
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... whole edition must go to the uses just now mentioned ; though it is really a pity to see such a pretty offspring of the paper - mill and the let- ter - foundry consigned to so ungentle and inelegant a part of the great literary economy ...
... whole edition must go to the uses just now mentioned ; though it is really a pity to see such a pretty offspring of the paper - mill and the let- ter - foundry consigned to so ungentle and inelegant a part of the great literary economy ...
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John Foster Henry George Bohn. indecision ; the whole is a mere thicket of involved con- fusion . If anything more , than the sport of making a num- ber of curious people wind and toil through a literary brake to get at a choice fruit ...
John Foster Henry George Bohn. indecision ; the whole is a mere thicket of involved con- fusion . If anything more , than the sport of making a num- ber of curious people wind and toil through a literary brake to get at a choice fruit ...
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... whole system is that infernal contrivance of castes , which would be the death of all feelings , and all right conceptions , of justice and benevolence , even if the distinctions were less flagrantly iniquitous than they are , and were ...
... whole system is that infernal contrivance of castes , which would be the death of all feelings , and all right conceptions , of justice and benevolence , even if the distinctions were less flagrantly iniquitous than they are , and were ...
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Страница 341 - ... the furious animal sprang up, and ran open-mouthed upon them ; as he came near, the two hunters who had reserved their fire, gave him two wounds, one of which breaking his shoulder, retarded his motion for a moment; but before they could reload, he was so near that they were obliged to run to the river, and before they...
Страница 240 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Страница 142 - After the tower had proceeded some way, a pilgrim announced that he was ready to offer himself a sacrifice to the idol. He laid himself down in the road before the tower as it was moving along, lying on his face, with his arms stretched forward.
Страница 343 - This spray is dissipated into a thousand shapes, sometimes flying up in columns of fifteen or twenty feet, which are then oppressed by larger masses of the white foam, on all which the sun impresses the brightest colors of the rainbow.
Страница 138 - In sight of Juggernaut; 12th June. " Many thousands of pilgrims have accompanied us for some days past. They cover the road before and behind as far as the eye can reach. At nine o'clock this morning, the temple of Juggernaut appeared in' view at a great distance. When the multitude first saw it, they gave a shout, and fell to the ground and worshipped. I have heard nothing to-day but shouts and acclamations by the successive bodies of pilgrims. From the place where I...
Страница 405 - I have seen them often," added he, "standing in that very attitude, and pursuing, with an intense eye, the arrow which they had just discharged from the bow.
Страница 137 - We know that we are approaching Juggernaut (and yet we are more than fifty miles from it) by the human bones which we have seen for some days strewed by the way.
Страница 145 - Close to Ishera, a beautiful villa on the river's side, about eight miles from Calcutta, once the residence of Governor Hastings, and within view of the present Governor-General's country-house, there is a temple of this idol which is often stained with. human blood.
Страница 143 - I beheld another distressing scene this morning at the Place of Skulls; a poor woman lying dead, or nearly dead, and her two children by her, looking at the dogs and vultures, which were near. The people passed by without noticing the children. I asked them where was their home. They said ' they had no home but where their mother was.
Страница 192 - The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion ; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.