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 iv
... taken by the Governor Ge- neral to abolish the Suttee . Mr. Smith , a Missionary at Benares , writes Feb. 13 , 1829 : — " Went out by the river side and conversed with a num- ber of Brahmuns on religious subjects , and also brought in ...
... taken by the Governor Ge- neral to abolish the Suttee . Mr. Smith , a Missionary at Benares , writes Feb. 13 , 1829 : — " Went out by the river side and conversed with a num- ber of Brahmuns on religious subjects , and also brought in ...
Side 6
... taken out for , though the women are burnt in these pits , the bodies are taken out while they are distinguishable , and consumed in two different fires ( at least that is the case here ) , and we are told it is done that the son may ...
... taken out for , though the women are burnt in these pits , the bodies are taken out while they are distinguishable , and consumed in two different fires ( at least that is the case here ) , and we are told it is done that the son may ...
Side 7
... taken by the widow , and the whole moved slowly towards the pile . The corpse was laid on the right side , and four men furnished with sharp swords , one stationed at each corner , now drew them from their scabbards . The trembling ...
... taken by the widow , and the whole moved slowly towards the pile . The corpse was laid on the right side , and four men furnished with sharp swords , one stationed at each corner , now drew them from their scabbards . The trembling ...
Side 15
... taken home by his relations , and on the night of the 29th he died , aged twenty- five years . His young and beautiful widow , only about fourteen or fifteen years of age , thinking herself altogether worthless in the world on the death ...
... taken home by his relations , and on the night of the 29th he died , aged twenty- five years . His young and beautiful widow , only about fourteen or fifteen years of age , thinking herself altogether worthless in the world on the death ...
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... taken up by the hands and feet and again thrown upon it , much burnt , and her clothes quite con- sumed ; she again sprang from the pile , and running to a well hard by laid herself down in the watercourse , weeping bitterly . Sheolol ...
... taken up by the hands and feet and again thrown upon it , much burnt , and her clothes quite con- sumed ; she again sprang from the pile , and running to a well hard by laid herself down in the watercourse , weeping bitterly . Sheolol ...
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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...