Laborious Days: Leaves from the Indian Record of Sir Charles Alfred Elliott, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., & C., &c., Lieutenant-Governor of BengalJ. Larkins, 1892 - 107 pages |
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Page 6 - Persia, shall conclude our list of authorities:—"! quite understand, my good friend," said I, " the contempt you bestow upon the nursery tales with which the Hajee and I have been entertaining each other; but believe me, he who desires to be well acquainted with a people, will not reject their popular stories, or local superstitions.
Page 95 - Socratici viri;" justice, temperance (to which he gave a very extended application), veracity, perseverance, readiness to encounter pain and especially labour; regard for the public good; estimation of persons according to their merits, and of things according to their intrinsic usefulness; a life of exertion in contradiction to one of selfindulgent ease and sloth.
Page 98 - Then didst thou grant mine asking with a smile, Like wealthy men who care not how they give. But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills, And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me, And tho...
Page 31 - During all this time he kept the people secure in life and property, and as happy as people in such a state of society can be, and the whole country under his charge was during his lifetime a garden.
Page 12 - ... combination, and by fatuous negligence the country had been taken from him, and the lives of his two great rajas had been lost. Now at last, thoroughly roused when it was too late, he felt that it was impossible to remain quiet under defeat. If he could not fight, at least he could fly ; some place, might be found where, though only for a little space, he might be beyond the conquerors
Page 8 - This was the mortal spoils of Dhanattar Vaid, who had been killed by the snake, typifying in mythology the Scythian invasion of India, lest by his cunning he should save king Parichit from a similar fate. Lona ate the flesh : and as she ate, the wisdom of Dhanattar passed into her. She became skilful in cures and medicines, and if any was bitten by a snake she healed him. There came a day when all the people of Unao were transplanting the young rice-plants from their seed-beds to the wider fields...
Page 36 - I have ridden out this morning some six miles towards the rebels with a small body of cavalry. As we returned home we crossed a small river, and came over the high ground of its bank. The instant we were seen from the first village, coming from the direction of the rebels, we heard shrieks and cries ; every one put his plough to his shoulder and drove his oxen before him — women rushed off into the nearest wood, the whole village was deserted. As we got closer to it, we saw a man lurking about...
Page 11 - Rajpoot power and Hindu devotion, were startled by the appearance before their walls of "the uncouth barbarians;" all after a brave, but vain resistance fell before his sword. The Brahmin folded his hands and cursed the " Mulich,
Page 8 - So, at last, when the rest went away after emptying their baskets, her brother-in-lawstayed behind and hid himself. He watched and saw that when all were gone Lona stripped herself naked and took up the heap in her hands, and muttered words, and cast the plants into the air, and all the rice-plants planted themselves out in order, each in its proper line and place. Then he cried out in astonishment, and when she saw that she was watched, she was overpowered with shame, and crouching down tried to...
Page 11 - Hindu devotion — were startled by the appearance before their walls of the uncouth barbarians. All, after a brave but vain resistance, fell before his sword. The Brahmin folded his hands and cursed the Mleccha, but not openly. The merchant sought to turn an honest penny by him, and was oftener paid with iron than with gold. The Sudra served the strange highlanders much as he had obeyed his Aryan master. But to the Rajput this upsetting of his received ideas was intolerable. It was part of his religion...