India's Cries to British Humanity: Relative to Suttee, Infanticide, British Connection with Idolatry, Ghaut Murders, and Slavery in India : to which are Added Humane Hints for the Melioration of the State of Society in British Indiaauthor, 1830 - 518 sider |
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Side 24
... ment of her husband's relatives might dispose them to in- flict on her , could interest her neighbours in her sufferings so as to procure her redress ; particularly when the interior of a Hindoo habitation , surrounded as it often is ...
... ment of her husband's relatives might dispose them to in- flict on her , could interest her neighbours in her sufferings so as to procure her redress ; particularly when the interior of a Hindoo habitation , surrounded as it often is ...
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... ment tends to promote the celebrity and supposed LEGALITY of Suttees . The sentiment of the poet , " " Tis but lame kindness that does its work by halves , " applies with peculiar force to the regulations adopted in British India ...
... ment tends to promote the celebrity and supposed LEGALITY of Suttees . The sentiment of the poet , " " Tis but lame kindness that does its work by halves , " applies with peculiar force to the regulations adopted in British India ...
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... ment coincided , observing , " The governor - general in council is duly sensible of the humane motives by which Mr. Harington is actuated in urging the points noticed in his minute , but being of opinion that the measure proposed for ...
... ment coincided , observing , " The governor - general in council is duly sensible of the humane motives by which Mr. Harington is actuated in urging the points noticed in his minute , but being of opinion that the measure proposed for ...
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... ment , and applauded the inflexible tenor of our proceed- ings . ' * The opinion of J. H. Harington , Esq . , officiating chief Judge in the Nizamut Adawlut , Calcutta , on the expediency of abolishing the Suttee , has been given . The ...
... ment , and applauded the inflexible tenor of our proceed- ings . ' * The opinion of J. H. Harington , Esq . , officiating chief Judge in the Nizamut Adawlut , Calcutta , on the expediency of abolishing the Suttee , has been given . The ...
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... ment to prevent their continuance would be a palatable measure . " ✝ Another Magistrate in Bombay ( J. Barnard , Esq . ) ob- serves : - " The circumstances under which Suttees prevail , the classes interested therein , the number of ...
... ment to prevent their continuance would be a palatable measure . " ✝ Another Magistrate in Bombay ( J. Barnard , Esq . ) ob- serves : - " The circumstances under which Suttees prevail , the classes interested therein , the number of ...
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Side 351 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel, thy brother ? And he said, I know not : am I my brother's keeper ? And he said, What hast thou done ? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Side 180 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Side 176 - Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
Side 119 - And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan : and the land was polluted with blood.
Side 109 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord : and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
Side 502 - the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty...
Side 105 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not ; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works...
Side 506 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me ; Because I delivered the poor that cried, And the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that, was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Side 108 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Side 470 - And speak unto the believing women, that they restrain their eyes, and preserve their modesty, and discover not their ornaments, except what necessarily appeareth thereof; and let them throw their veils over their bosoms, and not show their ornaments, unless to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husbands...