Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah: ... to which is Prefixed a Dissertation on the History, Religion, and Manners of the Hindoos, Volumen 2J. Walker, 1811 |
Términos y frases comunes
affection age of reason Almora amiable amusement appears Ardent-Hall arrived astonishment Atheism attention Axiom Baronet beauty behold benevolent bestowed bosom brother called charms choly Christian companions confess conversation countenance cried Darnley daughter dear Charlotte degree delight Delomond Denbeigh Dewan Doctor Sceptic Doctor Severan doubt Emma England English entertain eyes favour favourites felicity female folly fortune friendship gentleman happiness heart Hindoo honour hope husband idea India informed Lady Grey learned length letter Maandaara manner marriage melan ment mind Miss Ardent Miss Percy morning ness never object observation opinion perceive perhaps philosophers pleasure Poojah poor prejudices Puzzledorf quadrupeds Rajah returned rience scene seemed sentiment servants Shaster sight Sir Caprice Ardent sister smile soon sorrow soul sparrows spirits suffered suffi sufficient taste tears tender thing thought tion truth Varuna virtue votaries voyage woman young Zaarmilla
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Página 34 - In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety ; not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array ; but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Página 274 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away- their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Página 213 - To what sublime heights," exclaims this sapient philosopher, " may we not expect that virtue will then be seen to .soar ! — By destroying the domestic affections, what an addition will be made to human happiness ! and when man is no longer corrupted by the tender -and endearing ties of brother, sister, wife, and child, how greatly will his dispositions be meliorated...
Página 199 - ... changed. No man, ever yet convinced me, of being in an error. You have only to regret your having lived in a dark age, when vulgar prejudices so far prevail, as to consider laws as necessary to the well-being of society. But be comforted, Timothy! The age of reason approaches. That glorious aera is fast advancing, in which every man shall do that which is right in his own eyes, and the fear of the gallows shall have as little influence, as the fear of hell.
Página 204 - a man deep in know*ledge, either moral or natural"—but, from my own experience, I can pronounce the definition to be nugatory; and that those who usually call themselves such, are men who, without much knowledge, either moral or natural...
Página 62 - ... they had in the glad tidings of eternal happiness. They listened with peculiar complacency to the accounts of him who " came to preach the gospel to the poor," and the hopes of his favour seemed to irradiate with joy the bosom of resignation. A female of advanced life, in whom all these emotions were discernible, particularly arrested my attention.