Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah;: Written Previous To, and During the Period of His Residence in England. To which is Prefixed, a Preliminary Dissertation on the History, Religion, and Manners, of the HindoosJohn Walker; Wilkie and Robinson; Longman, Hurst, Rees. Orme and Brown; R. Scholey; A.K. Newman and Company; and J. Johnson and Company, 1811 |
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... tion , the same objections which render the translations from the Oriental writers tiresome , and uninteresting , will operate with equal force on the most beautiful passages of Homer , or Virgil ; and the names of Glaucus and Sarpedon ...
... tion , the same objections which render the translations from the Oriental writers tiresome , and uninteresting , will operate with equal force on the most beautiful passages of Homer , or Virgil ; and the names of Glaucus and Sarpedon ...
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... tion on the duties , as well as privileges , of this Cast , will put an end to invidious ex- ultation . An abhorrence of the shedding of blood , is a principle which pervades the whole of the Hindoo religion ; but the Bramins ob- serve ...
... tion on the duties , as well as privileges , of this Cast , will put an end to invidious ex- ultation . An abhorrence of the shedding of blood , is a principle which pervades the whole of the Hindoo religion ; but the Bramins ob- serve ...
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... tion on the external object that is present- ed to them , lose sight of the more remote and spiritual allusion , and soon transfer that veneration to the symbol , which was at first meant only to be excited for the thing signified . Nor ...
... tion on the external object that is present- ed to them , lose sight of the more remote and spiritual allusion , and soon transfer that veneration to the symbol , which was at first meant only to be excited for the thing signified . Nor ...
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... tion , who added the fury of fanaticism to the ravages of war , found the great end of their conquests opposed , by obstacles , which neither the ardour of their perse- vering zeal , nor savage barbarity could surmount . Multitudes were ...
... tion , who added the fury of fanaticism to the ravages of war , found the great end of their conquests opposed , by obstacles , which neither the ardour of their perse- vering zeal , nor savage barbarity could surmount . Multitudes were ...
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... tion . That unrelenting persecution , which was deemed a duty by the ignorant bigo- try of their Mussulman rulers , has , by the milder spirit of Christianity , been convert- ed into the tenderest indulgence . Their ancient laws have ...
... tion . That unrelenting persecution , which was deemed a duty by the ignorant bigo- try of their Mussulman rulers , has , by the milder spirit of Christianity , been convert- ed into the tenderest indulgence . Their ancient laws have ...
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Página 264 - 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 49 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in Him, in light ineffable ! Come then, expressive silence, muse his praise.
Página 48 - tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where He vital breathes, there must be joy.
Página 48 - Should fate command me to the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant barbarous climes, Rivers unknown to song ! where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on th...
Página 168 - ... to believe that the whole creation was rather an energy than a work, by which the Infinite Being who is present at all times and in all places, exhibits to the minds of his creatures a set of perceptions, like a wonderful picture or piece of music, always varied, yet always uniform...
Página 28 - In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shame-facedness and sobriety ; not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array ; but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Página xix - He views in each particular place the mode of worship respectively appointed to it ; sometimes He is employed with the attendants upon the mosque; in counting the sacred beads ; sometimes He is in the temple, at the adoration of idols ; the intimate of the Mussalman, and the friend of the Hindu , the companion of the Christian, and the confidant of the Jew.
Página xxvii - And bids the various warbling throng Burst the pent blossoms with their song. He bends the luscious cane, and twists the string, With bees how sweet ! but ah, how keen their sting ! He with fine flowrets tips thy ruthless darts, Which through five senses pierce enraptured hearts.
Página 167 - Omniscient Spirit, whose all-ruling pow'r Bids from each sense bright emanations beam; Glows in the rainbow, sparkles in the stream, Smiles in the bud, and glistens in the flow'r That crowns each vernal bow'r; Sighs in the gale, and warbles in the throat Of...
Página 261 - I was anxious to improve the light, directed me four or five miles farther on my way to the dwelling of a man whose name was Rice, who occupied the last and highest of the valleys that lay in my path, and who, they said, was a rather rude and uncivil man. But "what is a foreign country to those who have science? Who is a stranger to those who have the habit of speaking kindly?