Ten Years in India: Or, The Life of a Young Officer, Volume 2W. Shoberl, 1850 - India |
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Page 38 - Can we be said to do unto others as we would that they should do unto us if we wantonly inflict on them even the smallest pain?
Page 115 - He seemed to bear a charmed life, proof alike against the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the arrow that flieth by day.
Page 284 - Their women are superior, certainly, in every way ; there is a dash of the French in their manner and deportment. .... The greater part of the society of Pondicherry is composed of these tawny-visaged Frenchmen and their families. The Europeans, however, mix with them, intermarry, and connect themselves without reference to birth, parentage, or education. It is no uncommon sight to see a dark man with a fair wife, and vice versa. "All the exportation from France are procurable at Pondicherry, at...
Page 283 - ... that they are unable, from weakness of stamina, to wrestle with a disease which the inhaling of an unhealthy atmosphere brings on. But we seldom hear of cholera, or any other epidemic, breaking out in the villages of the French territories. Let the traveller visit any of them, and he will see how neat and clean they are ; let him look at the "paysans" and he will observe them to be much better clad, and stouter than our ryots generally are.
Page 280 - ... French, and the natives talk it beautifully. " Pondicherry is indeed a very pretty place. It resembles very much, and reminds the traveller of, a French town on the Continent. The roads and streets of the suburbs are lined with avenues of trees ; the roads themselves watered, so that there is httle or no dust ; giving the whole a cool, fresh appearance, instead of the hot, dry. parched-up aspect for which our cantonments are so remarkable. The houses of the natives, outside the town, are well...
Page 47 - At many of our stations there is not such a building even as a church, whilst the Papists invariably have some place of worship...
Page 310 - ... as soon as they hear of troops being about to move, they hurry off from their dwellings, driving their carts and cattle to some distant village, taking the former to pieces, hiding one wheel here and another there, and sending the latter to graze among the hills, and themselves taking to the plough, or other occupation, to avoid detection, or even the possibility of their being pressed into the service. These poor fellows have a particular aversion to being employed by European troops, because...
Page 37 - ... right spirit within us. Give unto us, O God, more of the mind which was in Christ Jesus. May we esteem others better than ourselves. Teach us to pity and to help, as Thou shalt enable us, all who are in want and sorrow. Make us anxious to do good to the souls and bodies of our fellow-men. May we show that we are Christians, not in name only, but in deed and truth ; and by our holy and blameless lives may we adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Page 279 - It covers a great extent of ground, and is laid out with nearly the same regularity as the European quarter.
Page 279 - I look upon as in excellent plan, calculated to improve the condition of the natives, who are made to learn the language of their rulers ; while we, not placing that confidence in a people whom we have conquered, learn their language ourselves, and do all we car\ thereby to prevent them from acquiring ours.