The Tagore Family: A Memoir

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Thacker, Spink, 1892 - 187 стор.

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Сторінка 154 - Bengal, and of a family so ancient, they still enjoy to a great degree the veneration of the common people, which the present head of the house appears to value, — since I can hardly reconcile in any other manner his philosophical studies and imitation of many European habits, with the daily and austere devotion which he is said to practise towards the Ganges, (in which he bathes three times every twenty-four hours,) and his veneration for all the other duties of his ancestors.
Сторінка 155 - Russe" of masonry, very steep, and covered with plaster, down which he said the ladies used to slide. Of these females, however, we saw none,— indeed they were all staying at his town-house in Calcutta. He himself received us at the head of a whole tribe of relations and descendants on a handsome flight of steps, in a splendid shawl, by way of mantle, with a large rosary of coral set in gold, leaning on an ebony crutch with a gold head. Of his grandsons, four very pretty boys, two were dressed...
Сторінка 153 - Zennanah, the race is conceived to have lost claim to the knotted cord, and the more rigid Brahmins will not eat with them. Being, however, one of the principal landholders in Bengal, and of a family so ancient, they still enjoy to a great degree the veneration of the common people, which the present head of the house appears to value, — since I can hardly reconcile in any other manner his philosophical studies and imitation of many European habits, with the daily and austere devotion which he...
Сторінка 55 - Tis in the advance of individual minds That the slow crowd should ground their expectation Eventually to follow ; as the sea Waits ages in its bed till some one wave Out of the multitudinous mass, extends The empire of the whole, some feet perhaps, Over the strip of sand which could confine Its fellows so long time : thenceforth the rest, Even to the meanest, hurry in at once, And so much is clear gained.
Сторінка 135 - MY DEAR SIR, — I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of yesterday.
Сторінка 153 - This is more like an Italian villa, than what one should have expected as the residence of Baboo Hurree Mohun Thakoor. Nor are his carriages, the furniture of his house, or the style of his conversation, of a character less decidedly European. He is a fine old man who speaks English weU, is well informed on most topics of general discussion,' and talks with the appearance of much familiarity on Franklin, chemistry, natural philosophy, &c.
Сторінка 154 - of masonry, very steep, and covered with plaster, down which, he said, the ladies used to slide. Of these females, however, we saw none ; indeed, they were all staying at his town-house in Calcutta. He himself received us, at the head of a whole tribe of relations and descendants...
Сторінка 154 - England, and is conferred by government in almost the same manner. The house is surrounded by an extensive garden, laid out in formal parterres of roses, intersected by straight walks, with some fine trees, and a chain of tanks, fountains, and summer houses...
Сторінка 155 - ... descendants on a handsome flight of steps, in a splendid shawl, by way of mantle, with a large rosary of coral set in gold, leaning on an ebony crutch with a gold head. Of his grandsons, four very pretty boys, two were dressed like English children of the same age, but the round hat, jacket, and trowsers, by no means suited their dusky skins so well as the splendid brocade caftans and turbans covered with diamonds, which the two elder wore.
Сторінка 154 - Government in almost the same manner. The .house is surrounded by an extensive garden, laid out in formal parterres of roses, intersected by straight walks, with some fine trees, and a chain of tanks, fountains, and summerhouses, not...

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