Saint Pauls, Volum 2Virtue and Company, 1868 |
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Side 341 - The consequence, therefore, of the conquest of India by the British arms would be, in place of raising, to debase the whole people. There is perhaps no example of any conquest in which the natives have been so completely excluded from all share of the government of their country as in British India.
Side 315 - Bought triumph, its fugitive bliss ; Sometimes I half wish I were merely A plain or a penniless miss ; But, perhaps, one is best with a "measure Of pelf...
Side 317 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh ! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
Side 440 - ... to open, to invigorate, and to enrich the mind, will generally be found in the business of every profession, superior to men who have at eighteen or nineteen devoted themselves to the special studies of their calling.
Side 37 - The horses on their part are not without emulation ; they tremble and are impatient, and are continually in motion. At last the signal once given, they start, devour the course, and hurry along with unremitting swiftness. The jockeys, inspired with the thought of applause, and the hope of victory, clap spurs to their willing horses, brandish their whips, and cheer them with their cries.
Side 559 - Maiden, crowned with glossy blackness, Lithe as panther forest-roaming, Long-armed naiad, when she dances, On a stream of ether floating, — Bright...
Side 154 - Are yet upon the other side To earth and to its dust allied. And so the Church Establishment, regarded in its theory and in its aim, is beautiful and attractive. Yet what is it but an appropriation of public property, an appropriation of the fruits of labour and of skill to certain purposes, and unless these purposes are fulfilled, that appropriation cannot be justified.
Side 314 - THE glow and the glory are plighted To darkness, for evening is come ; The lamp in Glebe Cottage is lighted, The birds and the sheep-bells are dumb. I'm alone...
Side 645 - And none is poor or piteous, — For here is Rest. "No formless Future blurs the sky; Men mourn not here, with dull dead eye, By shrouded shapes of Yesterday; Betwixt the Coming and the Past The flawless life hangs fixen fast In one unwearying To-Day, That darkens not; for Sin is shriven, Death from the doors is thrust away, And here is Heaven.
Side 341 - The strength of the British Government enables it to put down every rebellion, to repel every foreign invasion, and to give to its subjects a degree of protection which those of no Native power enjoy. Its laws and institutions also afford them a security from domestic oppression, unknown in those states; but these advantages are dearly bought. They are purchased by the sacrifice of independence — of national character — and of whatever renders a people respectable.