Forty years in the world; or, Sketches and tales of a soldier's life, by the author of Fifteen years in India, Volumen3 |
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... changes and improve- ments - as any one may produce with money . At last , Mulgatawny Lodge was pronounced fit for Indian reception , and the Nabob's family arrived at the neighbouring town in four carriages . Here they were met by the ...
... changes and improve- ments - as any one may produce with money . At last , Mulgatawny Lodge was pronounced fit for Indian reception , and the Nabob's family arrived at the neighbouring town in four carriages . Here they were met by the ...
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... change have wrought a wonderful transfor- mation in our minds , we torture our tempers with idle vituperations of disappointment and regret . Behold the ocean , which has often been beauti- fully compared to human life ; and learn from ...
... change have wrought a wonderful transfor- mation in our minds , we torture our tempers with idle vituperations of disappointment and regret . Behold the ocean , which has often been beauti- fully compared to human life ; and learn from ...
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... storms of change . Like the puling in- fant , he frets without the breast that produces his happy slumber . I have thus endeavoured to illustrate -- perhaps caricature - the feelings of old Indians . Believe me THE NABOB . 13.
... storms of change . Like the puling in- fant , he frets without the breast that produces his happy slumber . I have thus endeavoured to illustrate -- perhaps caricature - the feelings of old Indians . Believe me THE NABOB . 13.
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... change this , but habits of industry generated by hope and fair reward . Our peasantry are charged with outrage and atrocity , as though they were naturally akin to that class of men who have sometimes practised as butchers , though ...
... change this , but habits of industry generated by hope and fair reward . Our peasantry are charged with outrage and atrocity , as though they were naturally akin to that class of men who have sometimes practised as butchers , though ...
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... ture , can certainly provide for a large family much better in the country than in a town . Unforeseen circumstances , however , and changes in the order of things , will often frustrate our best plans . The. 40 CUDGEL THY BRAINS.
... ture , can certainly provide for a large family much better in the country than in a town . Unforeseen circumstances , however , and changes in the order of things , will often frustrate our best plans . The. 40 CUDGEL THY BRAINS.
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Página 11 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O ! I have suffered With those that I saw suffer : a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creature in her, Dash'd all to pieces.
Página 289 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Página 36 - Rejoice the soul of thy servant : for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Página 37 - Existence may be borne, and the deep root Of life and sufferance make its firm abode In bare and desolated bosoms ; mute The camel labours with the heaviest load, And the wolf dies in silence...
Página 261 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie : There I couch*. When owls do cry, '} \ On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Página 227 - Then before All they stand — the holy vow And ring of gold, no fond illusions now, Bind her as his. Across the threshold led, And every tear kissed off as soon as shed, His house she enters — there to be a light Shining within, when all without is night ; A guardian- angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing...
Página 244 - Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe ! for such a mind Is soft, contemplative, and kind ; And woe to those who train such youth, And spare to press the rights of truth...
Página 120 - Ay me ! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, i; ' The course of true love never did run smooth ; But, either it was different in blood, — Her.
Página 171 - And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence? How the dear object from the crime remove, Or how distinguish penitence from love? Unequal task! a passion to resign, For hearts so touch'd, so pierc'd, so lost as mine. Ere such a soul regains its peaceful state, How often must it love, how often hate! How often hope, despair, resent, regret, Conceal, disdain, — do all things but forget.