Life in Ancient IndiaSmith, Elder, 1856 - 464 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Agni Ajunta amongst ancient appear Arjuna Arrian ascetic Asoka attained Ayodhya beautiful Bhagavat Brahmans Brahme brothers Buddha Buddha elect Buddhist Burnouf called Caste Caves Ceylon charioteer chief cloth Code of Manu commenced Dagoba death dharma divine doctrine Draupadi Drona earth Edicts elephants eyes Fa-Hian father feet fire flowers forest Ganges give Gods Greek heaven hills Hindu holy honour horses hundred husband Hwan Tsang hymns Ibid India Indra inscriptions James Prinsep jewel King Krishna Kshatriyas Lassen learned literature living Lord lotus Mahabharata Mahawanso Malwa mountains offerings Pali Panchala Pandus pillars Piyadasi poem Post 8vo present Prince Prinsep Professor Wilson Raja Rama reign religious Rig-Veda river sacred sacrifice Sage Sakya Sakya-muni Sankhya Sanskrit says sent Siva soul Sramanas story Sudra Sutras temples thee thou tion town translation trees tribes Vasanta Veda Vesali Vihara Vishnu whilst wife worship Yama Yudhishthira
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Página 140 - THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a
Página 464 - Eyre' is a remarkable production. Freshness and originality, truth and passion, singular felicity in the description of natural scenery and in the analyzation of human thought, enable this tale to stand boldly out from the mass, and to assume its own place in the bright field of romantic literature.
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Página 43 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the god-head who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Página 415 - Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. Let not thy life be spent in inaction.
Página 456 - Considered as an illustrated volume, this is the most remarkable which Mr. Ruskin has yet issued. The plates and woodcuts are profuse, and include numerous drawings of mountain form by the author, which prove Mr. Ruskin to be essentially an artist.
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Página 417 - I am made evident by my own power; and as often as there is a decline of virtue, and an insurrection of vice and injustice, in the world, I make myself evident ; and thus I appear, from age to age, for the preservation of the just, the destruction of the wicked, and the establishment of virtue.
Página 464 - English literature by its manly feeling, direct, unaffected manner of writing, and nicely managed, wellturned narrative. The descriptions are excellent ; some of the country painting is as fresh as a landscape by Constable, or an idyl by Alfred Tennyson."— Examiner.