The Story of My LifeH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920 - 500 pagina's |
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Pagina 463 - Account of Coffins and Mummies discovered in Egypt on the occasion of the Visit of HRH the Prince of Wales (1868-69).
Pagina 96 - Clarissa with me : and, as soon as they began to read, the whole station was in a passion of excitement about Miss Harlowe and her misfortunes, and her scoundrelly Lovelace ! The governor's wife seized the book, and the secretary waited for it, and the chief justice could not read it for tears...
Pagina 223 - So ended the controversy. The man looked at me as if he thought me a very wicked fellow; and, I dare say, has by this time discovered that, if you write my name in Tamul, leaving out T in Thomas, B in Babington, and M in Macaulay, it will give the number of this unfortunate Beast.
Pagina 95 - July 1st, 1834. DEAR ELLIS, — You need not get your map to see where Ootacamund is, for it has not found its way into the maps. It is a new discovery ; a place to which Europeans resort for their health, or, as it is called by the Company's servants — blessings on their learning! — a sanaterion. It lies at the height of seven thousand feet above the sea. While London is a perfect gridiron, here am I, at 13° north from the equator, by a blazing wood-fire, with my windows closed.
Pagina 96 - I expect to lay up on an average about seven thousand pounds a year, while I remain in India. At Christmas I shall send home a thousand or twelve hundred pounds for my father, and you all. I cannot tell you what a comfort it is to me to find that I shall be able to do this. It reconciles me to all the pains — acute enough, sometimes, God knows — of banishment. In a few years, if I live — probably in less than five years from the time at which you will be reading this letter — we...
Pagina 96 - Clarissa." " Not read •Clarissa!'" he cried out. "If you have once thoroughly entered on ' Clarissa ' and are infected by it, you can't leave it. "When I was in India I passed one hot season at the hills, and there were the Governor-General, and the Secretary of Government, and the Commander-in-Chief, and their wives. I had 'Clarissa...
Pagina 410 - I do not think he knew it,' replied the old priest ; ' for the last time I saw the box it was in the treasury, with the seals unbroken, as you left it.' " (Captain Wyndham had secured the box, and kept the horoscope with the rolls of calculations as a curiosity, not knowing their purport.) " ' We cannot say, I continued, ' what may yet happen ; the proceedings are not over, and the Resident and I are both determined to save the Rajah's life if we can.
Pagina 96 - ... in floods. It was very seldom that I could see a hundred yards in front of me. During a month together I did not get two hours' walking.' He began to be bored, for the first and last time in his life ; while his companions, who had not his resources, were ready to hang themselves for very dulness.
Pagina 470 - It is to advise all who go there, in whatever capacity, or whatever position they may hold, — use true courtesy to natives of all degrees. My experience has taught me that large masses of men are more easily led than driven, and that courtesy and kindness and firmness will gain many a point which, under a hard and haughty bearing, would prove unattainable. By courtesy, I do not mean undue familiarity. — far from it...
Pagina 97 - Clarissa under the inspiration of its owner's enthusiasm was nothing less than an epoch in his life. After the lapse of thirty years, when Ootacamund had long enjoyed the advantage of a bookclub and a circulating library, the tradition of Macaulay and his novel still lingered on with a tenacity most unusual in the ever-shifting society of an Indian station.