Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Great Men of India: Both Official and Non-official for the Last One Hundred Years

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1894 - India - 192 pages
 

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Page 145 - Norman's Treatise on the Law and Practice relating to Letters Patent for Inventions.
Page 55 - As one who, destined from his friends to part, Regrets his loss, but hopes again erewhile To share their converse and enjoy their smile, And tempers as he may affliction's dart; Thus, loved associates, chiefs of elder art, Teachers of wisdom, who could once beguile My tedious hours, and lighten every toil, I now resign you; nor with fainting heart; For pass a few short years, or days, or hours, And happier seasons may their dawn unfold, And all your sacred fellowship restore: When, freed from earth,...
Page 146 - ... attorney, comes and defends the wrong and injury, when, &c., and says, that...
Page 169 - It refers to the indictments as found 'for the crime of unlawful cohabitation committed' 'during the time' stated, divided into three periods, according to each indictment For so much of the...
Page 132 - Shuman, have been placed under a rule to show cause why an attachment should not issue against them for contempt.
Page 95 - The primary object of the missionary is proselytism. He gives education because by giving education he hopes to extend Christianity. He may be quite right in adopting this course, and left to himself, unaided by the Government, and evidently unconnected with, it, he may obtain some, although probably no great extent of success, but the moment he is ostensibly assisted by the Government he not only loses a large portion of his chance of doing good in the furtherance of his primary object, but by creating...
Page 181 - I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee! Who shall say that Fortune grieves him While the star of hope she leaves him? Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me, Dark despair around benights me. I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy; Naething could resist my Nancy; But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never...
Page 146 - And the plaintiff, as to the plea of the defendant by him above pleaded, and whereof he hath put himself upon the country, doth the like;" and in this case it is called a "special similiter.
Page 23 - Baboo by capacity and valour — brought himself so conspicuously forward, as to be known as the " Fighting Moonsiff." He not only held his own defiantly, but he planned attacks, he burnt villages, he wrote English despatches thanking his subordinates, and displayed a capacity for rule and a fertility of resource very remarkable for one of his nation. As a general rule, the higher officials were faithful, but there were lamentable exceptions. Old native judges were bitten by religious fanaticism,...
Page 84 - I shall take an early opportunity of transmitting rules for the conduct of the whole tribe of editors; in the meantime if you cannot tranquillize the editors of this and other mischievous publications, be so good as to suppress their papers by force, and send their persons to Europe.

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