 | Natural history - 1829 - 424 pages
...time to philosophical or literary pursuits, is a character unknown among Europeans resident in India; where every individual is a man of business in the...can be reserved for any study that has no immediate connection with business, even by those who are most habituated to mental application." We cannot agree... | |
 | American Oriental Society - Electronic journals - 1851 - 732 pages
...time to philosophical or literary pursuits, is a character unknown among Europeans resident in India, where every individual is a man of business in the...can be reserved for any study that has no immediate connection with business, even by those who are most habituated to mental application."* To these remarks... | |
 | James Prinsep - India - 1858 - 554 pages
...whole time to philosophical or literary pursuits, is a character unknown among Europeans in India, where every individual is a man of business in the...can be reserved for any study that has no immediate connection with business, even by those who are most habituated to mental application." So much in... | |
 | James Prinsep - India - 1858 - 622 pages
...whole time to philosophical or literary pursuits, is a character unknown among Europeans in India, where every individual is a man of business in the...professions, — very few hours, therefore, in the flay or night can be reserved for any study that has no immediate connection with business, even by... | |
 | James Prinsep - India - 1858 - 600 pages
...every individual is a man of business in the civil or military state, and constantly occupied cither in the affairs of government, in the administration...department of revenue or commerce, or in one of the liberal professions,—very few hours, therefore, in the day or eight «a be roared for _BT stedr that has... | |
 | Charles Philip Brown - Orientalists - 1872 - 90 pages
...Here every individual is a man of business ; in the civil or military state he is constantly occupied in the affairs of Government, in the administration...in one of the liberal professions ; very few hours in the day or night can be reserved for study."* This narrative may encourage the reader, as shewing... | |
 | Asiatic Society of Bengal - Archaeology - 1885 - 772 pages
...time to philosophical or literary pursuits, is a character unknown among Europeans resident in India, where every individual is a man of business in the...day or night, can be reserved for any study that has 110 immediate connection with business, even by those who are most habituated to mental application,... | |
 | David Arnold - History - 2000 - 260 pages
...India'. Everyone was 'constantly occupied either in the affairs of Government, in the administering of justice, in some department of revenue or commerce, or in one of the liberal professions'.15 Unlike in Britain, there were few European clergymen, landlords and manufacturers to... | |
 | James Prinsep - India - 1995 - 650 pages
...whole time to philosophical or literary pursuits, is a character unknown among Europeans in India, where every individual is a man of business in the...— very few hours, therefore, in the day or night 1 The Chinese province* north of the Himalaya, Tibet, etc., were wppiwd with coin «trnck in the valley... | |
 | Brian K. Pennington - Religion - 2005 - 260 pages
...whole time to philosophical or literary pursuits, is a character unknown among Europeans in India, where every individual is a man of business in the...can be reserved for any study, that has no immediate connection with business, even by those who are most habituated to mental application.23 Such a frank... | |
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Calcutta, from among whom the members of their society were to be selected, observes — that "a mere man of letters, retired from the world and allotting his whole time to philosophical or literary pursuits, is a character unknown among Europeans resident... 