The History of British India, Volumen1Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817 - 777 páginas |
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... .. The Laws .. 122 CHAPTER IV . 133 CHAPTER V. The Taxes .... 173 CHAPTER VI . 198 Religion . CHAPTER VII . Manners . 287 The Arts . CHAPTER VIII . 332 Literature CHAPTER IX . General Reflections CHAPTER X. BOOK III iv CONTENTS .
... .. The Laws .. 122 CHAPTER IV . 133 CHAPTER V. The Taxes .... 173 CHAPTER VI . 198 Religion . CHAPTER VII . Manners . 287 The Arts . CHAPTER VIII . 332 Literature CHAPTER IX . General Reflections CHAPTER X. BOOK III iv CONTENTS .
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... manner , the idea of writing a History of India was first engendered in my mind . I should have shrunk from the task ... manners , and arts . The transactions in India were not the only transactions of the British nation , to which the ...
... manner , the idea of writing a History of India was first engendered in my mind . I should have shrunk from the task ... manners , and arts . The transactions in India were not the only transactions of the British nation , to which the ...
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... manners of the Germans . But , as some knowledge may be acquired by seeing India , which cannot be acquired without it ; and as it can be pronounced of hardly any portion of knowledge that it is altogether useless , I will not go so far ...
... manners of the Germans . But , as some knowledge may be acquired by seeing India , which cannot be acquired without it ; and as it can be pronounced of hardly any portion of knowledge that it is altogether useless , I will not go so far ...
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... manner as the general laws of motion are counteracted and modified by friction , the power of which may yet be accurately ascertained and provided for , so he may correctly appreciate the counteraction which the more general ws of human ...
... manner as the general laws of motion are counteracted and modified by friction , the power of which may yet be accurately ascertained and provided for , so he may correctly appreciate the counteraction which the more general ws of human ...
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... manners ; that we entered upon the administration of the govern- ment ignorant of its former constitution , and with little practical experience in Asiatic finance , it will not be deemed surprising that we should have fallen into ...
... manners ; that we entered upon the administration of the govern- ment ignorant of its former constitution , and with little practical experience in Asiatic finance , it will not be deemed surprising that we should have fallen into ...
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Página 184 - The inhabitants give themselves no trouble about the breaking up and divisions of kingdoms; while the village remains entire, they care not to what power it is transferred or to what sovereign it devolves; its internal economy remains unchanged...
Página 110 - Brahman springs to light, he is born above the world, the chief of all creatures, assigned to guard the treasury of duties, religious and 1 " Institutes,
Página 197 - The waters are called nara, because they were the production of NARA, or the Spirit of God', and, since they were his first ay ana, or place of motion, he thence is named NARAYANA, or moving on the waters.
Página 197 - ... then the sole self-existing power, himself undiscerned, but making this world discernible, with five elements and other principles of nature, appeared with undiminished glory, expanding his idea, or dispelling the gloom. He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person.
Página 73 - He told Mr. Vaux roundly that he expected his orders were to be his rules, and not the laws of England, which were a heap of nonsense, compiled by a few ignorant country gentlemen, who hardly knew how to make laws for the good government of their own private families, much less for the regulating of companies and foreign commerce.
Página 183 - ... politically viewed it resembles a corporation or township. Its proper establishment of officers and servants consists of the following descriptions: the potail, or head inhabitant, who has...
Página 176 - Agriculturae non student; majorque pars eorum victus in lacte, caseo, carne consistit; neque quisquam agri modum certum aut fines habet proprios ; sed magistratus ac principes in annos singulos gentibus cognationibusque hominum qui una coierunt, quantum et quo loco visum est agri attribuunt atque anno post alio transire cogunt.
Página 198 - He gave being to time and the divisions of time, to the stars also, and to the planets, to rivers, oceans, and mountains, to level plains, and uneven valleys.
Página 235 - We must not be surprised," he says, " at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern Varanes [Benares] mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways and by a multitude of fanciful names.
Página 380 - ... be lunacy), but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending that it has no essence independent of mental perception, that existence and perceptibility are convertible terms, that external appearances and sensations are illusory and would vanish into nothing if the divine energy, which alone sustains them, were suspended but for a moment...