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... late Dr. Jackson , who was the family physician of the great Native millionaire , -Baboo Ashutosh Dey - seeing the very large number of men and wo- men who resided in his family dwelling house , very facetiously remarked that the ...
... late Dr. Jackson , who was the family physician of the great Native millionaire , -Baboo Ashutosh Dey - seeing the very large number of men and wo- men who resided in his family dwelling house , very facetiously remarked that the ...
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... late years , the practice of making gifts to the child being held in the obnoxious light of a tax , the good taste of some has led them to confine the rite within the circumscribed limit of their own family . Superstition has its ...
... late years , the practice of making gifts to the child being held in the obnoxious light of a tax , the good taste of some has led them to confine the rite within the circumscribed limit of their own family . Superstition has its ...
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... late Rev. William Adam to be the Commissioner of Education in Bengal . That highly talented and generous philanthrophist , after a minute and searching investigation , submitted in his report to Govern- ment a scheme of education very ...
... late Rev. William Adam to be the Commissioner of Education in Bengal . That highly talented and generous philanthrophist , after a minute and searching investigation , submitted in his report to Govern- ment a scheme of education very ...
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... late years a great change has taken place in the profession of the Ghatucks . The question of marriage , though not absolutely , yet chiefly , is a question the solution of which rests with the females . Their voice in such matters has ...
... late years a great change has taken place in the profession of the Ghatucks . The question of marriage , though not absolutely , yet chiefly , is a question the solution of which rests with the females . Their voice in such matters has ...
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... late Rajah Rajkissen , Baboos Ramdoolal Dey , * Nemy Churn Mullick and other Hindoo millionaires , spent extra- ordinary sums of money on the marriage of their sons . The amount in each instance far exceeded a lakh of Rupees . The ...
... late Rajah Rajkissen , Baboos Ramdoolal Dey , * Nemy Churn Mullick and other Hindoo millionaires , spent extra- ordinary sums of money on the marriage of their sons . The amount in each instance far exceeded a lakh of Rupees . The ...
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Baboo Bahadoor bangle Benares Bengal Bengalee Baboo betel blessings body Brahmins brass Brata bride bridegroom Calcutta called caste ceremony character child Chunder clothes cook daughter deity devotion domestic Doorga Poojah dress English entertainment European father feelings festival friends fruits ghee girl give goddess gold guests hand happiness head heart Hindoo females Hindoo society holy honor human husband idolatry India influence Kali Koolin Krishna ladies late Baboo living male marriage ment milk mind moon moral mother mother-in-law native nature night observed occasion offerings officiating priest ornaments otto of rose Palkee Peeralee performed plantain poita present Pundits Rajah religion religious respectable Hindoo return home rice rite rules Rupees Sabitri sacred says Shastra Shiva silver Sir William Jones social spirit Suttee sweetmeats Tagore Tagore family taste thousand Rupees tion widow wife wives woman women worship Yama zenana
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Page 89 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Page 251 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 166 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 304 - Was not this a violation even of neutrality, and an offence, not only against the gospel, but against theism itself? I know what may be said about personification, license of poetry, and so on, but should not a worshipper of God hold himself under a solemn obligation to abjure all tolerance of even poetical figures that can seriously seem, in any way whatever, to recognise the pagan divinities or abominations, as the prophets of Jehovah would have called them ? What would Elijah have said to such...
Page 239 - ... and, like those abstemious men, a virtuous wife ascends to heaven, though she have no child, if, after the decease of her lord, she devote herself to pious austerity...
Page 228 - Through their passion for men, their mutable temper, their want of settled affection, and their perverse nature, (let them be guarded in this world ever so well) they soon become alienated from their husbands.
Page 185 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Page 96 - And that a wife her husband's portion shares ? Therefore with thee this forest lot I claim. A woman's bliss is found, not in the smile Of father, mother, friend, nor in herself: Her husband is her only portion here, Her heaven hereafter.
Page 228 - Women have no business with the texts of the Veda; thus is the law fully settled : having, therefore, no evidence of law, and no knowledge of expiatory texts, sinful women must be as foul as falsehood itself ; and this is a fixed rule.