India, Past and Present, Volume 1

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H.T. Coates & Company, 1903
 

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Page 94 - Act, 1858 the Government of India was transferred from the East India Company to the Crown.
Page 79 - Unwarned by precedent, uninfluenced by example, the Sikh nation has called for war, and on my word, Sirs, they shall have it with a vengeance.
Page 70 - O give him welcome, this is he Worthy of our gorgeous rites, And worthy to be laid by thee ; For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'da hundred fights, Nor ever lost an English gun ; This is he that far away Against the myriads of Assaye Clash'd with his fiery few and won...
Page 149 - ... of all he never let his left hand know what his right hand was doing. Ballantyne's face glowed with delight and the tear stood in his eye "You never were more right in your life" said he "You never were more right in your life!
Page 198 - Caesar, or of the Old Guard of Napoleon. The sepoys came to Clive, not to complain of their scanty fare, but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans, who required more nourishment than the natives of Asia. The tin'™ gruel, they said, which was strained away from the rice, would suffice for themselves.
Page 118 - Vaishnavs affords to women who have fallen victims to caste rules, to the widow and the outcast ; in that gentleness and charity to all men, which take the place of a poor-law in India, and give a high significance to the half-satirical epithet of the ' mild
Page 258 - The stainless ramps of huge Himala's wall, Ranged in white ranks against the blue — untrod Infinite, wonderful — whose uplands vast, And lifted universe of crest and crag, Shoulder and shelf, green slope and icy horn, Riven ravine, and splintered precipice Led climbing thought higher and higher, until It seemed to stand in heaven and speak with gods.
Page 190 - To the Sepulchres Of the Ancient Kings, which Baly, in his power, Made in primeval times, and built above them A City, like the Cities of the Gods, Being like a God himself. For many an age Hath Ocean warred against his Palaces, Till, overwhelmed, they lie beneath the waves, Not overthrown, so well the awful Chief Had laid their deep foundations.
Page 237 - Each man as he reached to the top of the ladder, stepped out on the platform and walked at once to a halter. Without loss of time he tried its strength by weighing his whole body on it. Every one having by this means proved the strength of his rope with his own hands (for none of them were handcuffed), introduced his head into the noose, drew the knot firmly home immediately behind .the right ear, and amid terrific cheers jumped off the board and launched himself into eternity ! Thus in the moment...
Page 239 - The investiture with the Romal is knighthood to these monsters : it is the highest object of their ambition, not only because the man who strangles has so much a head over and above the share which falls to him in the division of the spoil, but because it implies the recognition, by his comrades, of the qualities of courage, strength and dexterity, which all are anxious to be famed for.

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