Some Account of the Life of Reginald HeberCrocker and Brewster, 1829 - 244 páginas |
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... peasants than most other classes of men , and are strongly interested in their sufferings and oppressions ; to many of which they themselves are likewise exposed . They marry very much among the daughters and sisters of their own order ...
... peasants than most other classes of men , and are strongly interested in their sufferings and oppressions ; to many of which they themselves are likewise exposed . They marry very much among the daughters and sisters of their own order ...
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... peasantry : - " We observed a striking difference between the peasants of the crown and those of indi- viduals . The former are almost all in compa- ratively easy circumstances . Their abrock , or rent , is fixed at five roubles a year ...
... peasantry : - " We observed a striking difference between the peasants of the crown and those of indi- viduals . The former are almost all in compa- ratively easy circumstances . Their abrock , or rent , is fixed at five roubles a year ...
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... peasants ; and by this assembly it is decided what proportion each individual must pay . If a slave exercise any trade which brings him in more money than agricultural labour , he pays a higher abrock . If by journeys to Petersburg , or ...
... peasants ; and by this assembly it is decided what proportion each individual must pay . If a slave exercise any trade which brings him in more money than agricultural labour , he pays a higher abrock . If by journeys to Petersburg , or ...
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... which she merited , for cruelty to her slaves . Instances of barba- rity are , however , by no means rare . Kostroma , the sister of Mr. Kotchetof , the with At governor , gave me an instance of a nobleman who RUSSIAN PEASANTRY . 13.
... which she merited , for cruelty to her slaves . Instances of barba- rity are , however , by no means rare . Kostroma , the sister of Mr. Kotchetof , the with At governor , gave me an instance of a nobleman who RUSSIAN PEASANTRY . 13.
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... living runa- ways , is imprisonment and hard labour in the government works ; and a master may send to the public workhouse any peasant he chooses . The prisons of Moscow and Kostroma were chiefly filled with 14 BISHOP HEBER .
... living runa- ways , is imprisonment and hard labour in the government works ; and a master may send to the public workhouse any peasant he chooses . The prisons of Moscow and Kostroma were chiefly filled with 14 BISHOP HEBER .
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Some account of the life of Reginald Heber [compiled from reviews of his works]. Vista completa - 1829 |
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abrock ancient appearance asked Ataman beautiful believe Benares better Bishop Heber Bishop of Calcutta Bombay boys Brahmins called caste character Cherson Christian church colour comfort Cossacks Crimea Dacca degree delight desert districts duty England English European expressed faith father favourable feeling friends give Gospel habits hand heard heart Hindoo Hodnet holy honour hope horses houses India inhabitants interesting Jeremy Taylor Kaffa Kertch kind labour land less Lord magnificent manner master ment mind missionaries Mussulman native natural neighbourhood never noble Nogay observed Odessa officers Pallas passed peasants perhaps Persian persons pleased possession preached present prince racter Raja Rajah rank received REGINALD HEBER religious roubles round ruins Russian says seemed seen servants silver sticks slaves Starosta Sudak suppose Taganrog Tahtars temples things thought tion told town traveller tygers versts village writings
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Página 68 - GOD, that madest earth and heaven, darkness and light; who the day for toil hast given, for rest the night; may thine angel-guards defend us, slumber sweet thy mercy send us, holy dreams and hopes attend us, this livelong night.
Página 161 - An Evening Walk in Bengal. Our task is done ! on Gunga's breast The sun is sinking down to rest; And, moored beneath the tamarind bough, Our bark has found its harbour now. With furled sail and painted side Behold the tiny frigate ride. Upon her deck, 'mid charcoal gleams, The Moslem's savoury supper steams ; While all apart, beneath the wood, The Hindoo cooks his simpler food.
Página 163 - Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod, Our English fairies never trod. Yet who in Indian bower has stood, But thought on England's "good green wood?
Página 159 - If thou wert by my side, my love ! How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale ! ' If thou, my love ! wert by my side, My babies at my knee, How gaily would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea...
Página 62 - We meekly beseech thee, O Father, to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness ; that, when we shall depart this life, we may rest in him, as our hope is this our brother doth...
Página 166 - A species of litter. material of the buildings is a very good stone, from Chunar, but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a deep red colour, and, indeed, of covering the more conspicuous parts of their houses with paintings in gaudy colours of flower-pots, men, women, bulls, elephants, gods and goddesses, in all their many-formed, manyheaded, many-handed, and many-weaponed varieties.
Página 210 - Hindostanee language, as well as Persian and Arabic, the senior boys could pass a good examination in English grammar, in Hume's History of England, Joyce's Scientific Dialogues, the use of the globes, and the principal facts and moral precepts of the Gospel, most of them writing beautifully in the Persian, and very tolerably in the English, character, and excelling most boys I have met with in the accuracy and readiness of their arithmetic.
Página 161 - mid charcoal gleams, The Moslems' savoury supper steams. While all apart, beneath the wood, The Hindoo cooks his simpler food. Come walk with me the jungle through; If yonder hunter told us true, Far off, in desert dank and rude, The...
Página 228 - ... (employments which he never sought for, but which fell in his way) he never pretended to impartiality, but acted as the avowed, though, certainly, the successful and judicious agent of the orphan prince entrusted to his care, and from attempting whose conversion to Christianity he seems to have abstained from a feeling of honour. His other converts were between six and seven thousand, besides those which his predecessors and companions in the cause had brought over.
Página 85 - ... whether he describes the duties, or dangers, or hopes of man, or the mercy, power, and justice of the Most High ; whether he exhorts or instructs his brethren, or offers up his supplications in their behalf to the common Father of all, his conceptions and his expressions belong to the loftiest and most sacred description of poetry, of which they only want, what they cannot be said to need, the name and the metrical arrangement.