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... Hindoos . By a Bengal Officer . London . East India Company , they have already acquired . All mines and subterraneous places belong to them ; they creep into hospitals and small schools , and so work their way upwards . It is the ...
... Hindoos . By a Bengal Officer . London . East India Company , they have already acquired . All mines and subterraneous places belong to them ; they creep into hospitals and small schools , and so work their way upwards . It is the ...
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... Hindoos and Mussulmen at the progress of the gospel . they may succeed in depriving the Brahmins of their power , and let you have it . " November 16th .-- Received a letter from the Rev. Dr. Taylor ; we are happy to find he is safely ...
... Hindoos and Mussulmen at the progress of the gospel . they may succeed in depriving the Brahmins of their power , and let you have it . " November 16th .-- Received a letter from the Rev. Dr. Taylor ; we are happy to find he is safely ...
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... Hindoos , and neglect- ed by the Europeans , he was seized with a flux and fever . In this state , he says , " I had nothing to support me or my family ; a relation offered to save me from perishing for want of necessaries , on ...
... Hindoos , and neglect- ed by the Europeans , he was seized with a flux and fever . In this state , he says , " I had nothing to support me or my family ; a relation offered to save me from perishing for want of necessaries , on ...
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... Hindoos ! Brother C. expressed his fears that they would all be lost . The man seemed as if he would have torn him to pieces .'- Ibid . p . 51 . Mar. 30. The people seem quite anxious to get the When I was about eighteen or nineteen ...
... Hindoos ! Brother C. expressed his fears that they would all be lost . The man seemed as if he would have torn him to pieces .'- Ibid . p . 51 . Mar. 30. The people seem quite anxious to get the When I was about eighteen or nineteen ...
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... Hindoos who had set up as gods , Dulol and Ram Dass . The missionaries conceiving is schism from the religion of the Hindoos to be very favourable opening for them , wait upon the two deities . With Dulol , who seems to be a very shrewd ...
... Hindoos who had set up as gods , Dulol and Ram Dass . The missionaries conceiving is schism from the religion of the Hindoos to be very favourable opening for them , wait upon the two deities . With Dulol , who seems to be a very shrewd ...
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Side 258 - Are you really my son Esau, or not?" 22 So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Side 89 - The school-boy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; — and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Side 293 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, as settled by law within this realm...
Side 89 - ... on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man ; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug that restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt and the rich man's spice ; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride ; at bed or board; couchant or levant, we must pay.
Side 89 - Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory ; — taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste— taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Side 96 - He was so born, and so gifted, that poetry, forensic skill, elegant literature, and all the highest attainments of human genius were within his reach ; but he thought the noblest occupation of a man was to make other men happy and free ; and in that straight line he went...
Side 93 - ... been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob the clergy of their tithes, not in order to alleviate the distresses of the tenantry, but that they might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents they already paid. The poor people of Munster lived in a more abject state of poverty than human nature could be supposed equal to bear.
Side 5 - ... can be very powerfully affected. What can be more ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervour of a week old; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in German text ; reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardour of his mind; and so affected at a preconcerted line, and page, that he is unable to proceed any...
Side 90 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue...
Side 225 - Thus, not only had all Ireland suffered confiscation in the course of this century, but no inconsiderable portion of it had been twice and even thrice confiscated. Well might Lord Clare say, ' that the situation of the Irish nation, at the Revolution, stands unparalleled in the history of the inhabited world.