The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volumes 5-6Houlston and Stonemen, 1858 |
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... India describing the " jolly fun , " the " capital sport , " they have had . They talk as coolly of cutting down human bodies as they would of " beasts that perish . " One has gone so far as to constitute himself professional ...
... India describing the " jolly fun , " the " capital sport , " they have had . They talk as coolly of cutting down human bodies as they would of " beasts that perish . " One has gone so far as to constitute himself professional ...
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History . HAS THE PRESERVATION OF CASTE CONDUCED TO THE PRESENT REVOLT IN INDIA ? AFFIRMATIVE ARTICLE . - I . IF history is to be vindicated from the contempt which John- son felt for it , and which Lord Plunket tersely expressed , when ...
History . HAS THE PRESERVATION OF CASTE CONDUCED TO THE PRESENT REVOLT IN INDIA ? AFFIRMATIVE ARTICLE . - I . IF history is to be vindicated from the contempt which John- son felt for it , and which Lord Plunket tersely expressed , when ...
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... Indian empire , › must awaken every intelligent mind to an inquiry into its origin and causes . Like a whirlwind ... India , to the native soldiery it has been mild , generous , and lucrative . They have eaten our bread , been ...
... Indian empire , › must awaken every intelligent mind to an inquiry into its origin and causes . Like a whirlwind ... India , to the native soldiery it has been mild , generous , and lucrative . They have eaten our bread , been ...
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... India that the only trustworthy evidence can be gathered , and in that country action must supersede mere judicial ... Indian Government , which has been considered sufficient to justify the imprisonment and to evidence the criminality ...
... India that the only trustworthy evidence can be gathered , and in that country action must supersede mere judicial ... Indian Government , which has been considered sufficient to justify the imprisonment and to evidence the criminality ...
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... India , but we firmly believe that it has been a great blessing to that country . The really flagrant wrongs of our Indian government belong to an era when corruption in the Senate was the recognized mode of parlia- mentary government ...
... India , but we firmly believe that it has been a great blessing to that country . The really flagrant wrongs of our Indian government belong to an era when corruption in the Senate was the recognized mode of parlia- mentary government ...
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Page 156 - For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Page 62 - And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 208 - That many shall come from the east and from the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven...
Page 108 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...
Page 157 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever...
Page 118 - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the LORD : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the LORD.
Page 115 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
Page 258 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him ; and to every seed his own body.
Page 157 - He that hath a trade, hath an estate; and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honour," as Poor Richard says; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes — If we are industrious, we shall never* starve; for, " at the working man's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Page 60 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.