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EWJ-1863-06-01 | 1 | 1 | 0 | title | 2 | ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL. | 1 | 4,075 | 11 | 4,086 | B1C0R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 1 | 1 | 1 | text | 4 | VOL. XL. | 1 | 505 | 5 | 510 | B1C1R4 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 1 | 1 | 2 | text | 5 | June 1, 1868. | 1 | 505 | 10 | 515 | B1C2R5 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 1 | 1 | 3 | text | 6 | No. 64.
The following is a list of the principal articles of exportation from the United Kingdom to the various parts of the world, during the year 1838, according to the returns made to the Board of Trade.
Great Britain and Ireland.
To the United States of America.
To the British Possessions in North America.
To ... | 1 | 505 | 439 | 944 | B1C3R6 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 8 | This question is invariably asked, whenever anything is amiss either in social or domestic affairs, when any screw is loose, or wheel will not act in the accustomed manner. It is the same in public as in private matters; whose is the fault that the impaired wheel or defective screw has not been looked to in time to pre... | 1 | 3,755 | 507 | 4,262 | B2C0R8 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | title | 7 | XXXV.—WHO'S TO BLAME?
— | 1 | 4,075 | 11 | 4,086 | B2C0R7 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | is easily broken, but tied together their strength is increased to the point of resistance.
To speak of moral amendment in general, or of changes in many ways that are desirable, is not our present intention: we seek to confine our remarks to one subject; a subject upon which there appears to be but one opinion, and t... | 1 | 4,075 | 292 | 4,367 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | We assume that the complaints are well founded, otherwise they would not be so general, and that they rest on something beyond that mere class antagonism, which is now and then productive of mischievous results. Seeing then that the evil complained of is not as we have remarked of mushroom growth, we must go back some ... | 1 | 4,075 | 332 | 4,407 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | In the traditions handed down to us of our maternal ancestresses, we are told that in those rude benighted times, ladies, actual ladies, not only could bake, brew, cook, and in the country make cheese and butter, but that they really did such things, and moreover were not ashamed of so doing. All unlike their descendan... | 1 | 3,179 | 562 | 3,741 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | We trace, then, the reasons which have left us without the strong working women of old, to the progress of refinement; to great wealth leading to indulgence in idleness and the contracting habits of pleasure rather than of industry; to love of outward adorning in every class of women, and lastly, to a false idea of gen... | 1 | 4,075 | 75 | 4,150 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "Like master, like man," is an old true saying, and when servants (who in common with other people have eyes and ears) perceive that those with whom they live are in a fever of anxiety to pass for richer than they are, and leave no means unused to vie with those of a higher grade in society; when nothing but the want o... | 1 | 4,012 | 437 | 4,449 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Among the evils complained of by mistresses is the extravagant waste encouraged and acted on by servants; and certainly this is a serious matter, as the incomes of many families in the middle class (to whom our remarks chiefly apply) would, go farther were servants more careful and conscientious in their stewardship of... | 1 | 3,949 | 234 | 4,183 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | possession of people that anybody could make a good housemaid or good cook, were she to give her mind to the work. This is true only as a starting point, because if habits of industry and attention are not formed in early girlhood, they cannot grow up in a night like Jonah’s gourd, simply because they are wished for.
... | 1 | 4,011 | 435 | 4,446 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Unfortunately our civilization, as at present seen, has too much of false meretricious glare in it, and the morals and education of our vast masses have no just proportion to our material wealth and visible splendour. To obtain this outward show, how many hearts become hardened and minds depraved is proved by the sad l... | 1 | 3,949 | 173 | 4,122 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "genteel," young women of humble rank have scorned the proposal made to them to become household servants. We suppose the name of servant must have a vulgar sound in their ears, and they forget that all of us are servants to the force of circumstances, whether we like or dislike these strong-willed masters. Great servi... | 1 | 3,949 | 386 | 4,335 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | We would suggest as one means of restoring a just idea of the value of house-service, that women of higher rank should do all in their power to induce the daughters of small traders and shopkeepers to become servants, rather than labour to attain positions for which they are neither properly trained nor educated. They ... | 1 | 3,949 | 243 | 4,192 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | limbs are the result, when the branches on which they strive to cling are mere shadowy arms without substance. To be content in the state where God has been pleased to put us is far too old-fashioned a doctrine to find favour in the eyes of the present climbing race. Yet how great the boon conferred, were that faithful... | 1 | 4,075 | 133 | 4,208 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Daring its origin from the dark ages, its founder and the time of its foundation alike veiled in a mist of uncertainty (for though it has sometimes been said to have owed both its name and its first existence to Albrecht "der Bär", there seems to have been little ground for the opinion beyond the suitability of his sur... | 1 | 4,075 | 459 | 4,534 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | XXXVI.—THE WHITE GHOST OF BERLIN.
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EWJ-1863-06-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | attained the dignity of being regarded not merely as a local but even as a national celebrity.
The first recorded appearance of the White Lady at the Royal Schloss in Berlin took place at the decease of the Elector John George, in 1598, that terrible year in which the plague carried off almost a quarter of the populat... | 1 | 2,859 | 667 | 3,526 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | herself at head-quarters at once, and seeking an interview with the personage whose death she came to portend, the Electoral Princess Louisa Henrietta, in the Princess's own sleeping room, where she was seen sitting on a chair as though engaged in writing, but the moment the Princess entered the apartment the lady bowe... | 1 | 2,923 | 679 | 3,602 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | sound as of some one falling, just outside his door. On opening it, a figure dressed in white lay insensible on the floor, and to his great horror he soon discovered that this was no other than his own betrothed, a young lady, the daughter of one of the Castle officials. Carried to her own room, it was long before she ... | 1 | 3,949 | 320 | 4,269 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Taken in chronological order, the next appearance on record would probably be the one mentioned by Mrs. Crowe as having been narrated in a publication called the Iris, published at Frankfort in 1819, the editor, George Döring, said to have been a man of great integrity, giving the account as heard from the lips of his ... | 1 | 3,949 | 336 | 4,285 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | apparition was doubtless that of a certain Countess of Orlamunde, who had been the mistress of a Margrave of Brandenburg, by whom she had two sons. When he became a widower she urged him to elevate her to the dignity of his lawful wife, and on his raising the objection that in that case her sons might hereafter dispute... | 1 | 4,075 | 197 | 4,272 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The White Lady has indeed found some of her firmest believers in the ranks of royalty; and the following story, copied from the Morning Post of November 8th, 1854, if true, shows that the spirit of credulity, long banished from the halls of Science, has even in very recent times found refuge in a palace. According to t... | 1 | 3,883 | 464 | 4,347 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 12 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | and that she had "changed with the times" in point of attire. But who was the personage represented by this colourless vision which had gleamed palely before so many credible witnesses and been attested by so many historical documents? Many theories were at different times proposed to account for the Schloss being thus... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,402 | 7,120 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | they slept, and armed with the German lady's inseparable companions, her knitting pins, lifted the long fair locks from the temples of the slumbering innocents, and pressed down the cruel wires till their sharp points had pierced to the very brain. The deadly deed was done, and seemingly not a trace remained to show wh... | 1 | 3,499 | 559 | 4,058 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Failing then to gain a satisfactory explanation of the White Lady's presence in the Schloss at Berlin from the history of any event which had taken place there, we may seek a personal rather than a local derivation, and turning from the place to its inhabitants, and following their history back into remote ages and ano... | 1 | 4,075 | 123 | 4,198 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | influence, and indeed it was known that a spirit did often appear in the Castle, of whose origin and history no one knew anything, but which, judging it very rightly by its deeds, had been pronounced by the best authorities to be a purely benevolent spirit. It was a lady of gentle and benign aspect, and clothed in pure... | 1 | 4,075 | 411 | 4,486 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In quieter times she was seldom seen, and when she did reveal herself, it was usually when any of the domestics had been dilatory or unfaithful in the discharge of their duties, or indulged in profane or unseemly language. The latter offence she was wont to chastise with great severity, the offenders suffering from blo... | 1 | 4,075 | 263 | 4,338 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 15 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | her visitations, even looking on them as quite a comfort and a blessing; that therefore it was very probable she might never consider that strangers would be terrified by what only gave pleasure to friends. An example of this inconsiderateness is afforded in the account given of her behaviour to a great Princess who on... | 1 | 2,923 | 666 | 3,589 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | literally "your love," employed by princely personages in addressing each other, instead of the deferential "your Highness" of inferiors) exclaiming hastily, "It's ten o'clock, _ener liebehen!_" and immediately vanishing. The Princess was so terrified that she almost expired of fright.
But it was not merely for the te... | 1 | 2,859 | 607 | 3,466 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | an accomplished scholar as well as a man deeply learned in spiritual lore, and who had hoped from the first that the spirit might have shown herself to him in the tower, on purpose to enable him to trace her origin, having gained this clue, was - - - - - - | 1 | 4,075 | 62 | 4,137 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | encouraged to the most diligent research, soon rewarded by the discovery of her whole history.
It appeared that Perchta or Prechta, the somewhat harsh ancient form of the name now written Bertha, had been married about the end of the fourteenth century to Matthias von Rosenberg. Lovely in person, this lady was yet mor... | 1 | 2,987 | 640 | 3,627 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | THE WHITE GHOST OF BERLIN. 233 | 1 | 4,075 | 14 | 4,089 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | his despair so affected her, that her previous great anxiety for the well-being and well-doing of all connected with her became an allabsorbing passion, surviving even the dissolution of her mortal frame, so that when her body lay in due time been committed to the grave, her spirit still lingered on earth to watch over... | 1 | 2,923 | 730 | 3,653 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Elector Joachim II. having always been made aware by her appearance when any of his family were about to die, though it was not till after the death of his successor John George, when as we have seen, her true history had been lost sight of, that her visits began to be generally regarded as the forerunner of death, as ... | 1 | 4,075 | 358 | 4,433 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | The press has teemed of late years with biographies of women great or good; but these have all been growths of the Western world, and the women of the East, though to depict their beauties the artist lavishes his brightest tints, and to tell of their loves and their hatreds the poet tunes his most thrilling lays, have ... | 1 | 4,075 | 291 | 4,366 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XXXVI.--THE STORY OF AN INDIAN PRINCESS.
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EWJ-1863-06-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | forth with all the greater lustre on account of the moral darkness around her. An Eastern Princess! The very words seem a sound from fairy-land, and associate themselves involuntarily with elfin godmothers, enchanted palaces, and supernatural adventures; but fortunately for her country, Alia Bhyé was no fairy vision; t... | 1 | 4,075 | 388 | 4,463 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The religion of the Mahrattas is that of Brahma, and their rank as regards caste is very low, though high enough to admit of their associating with Brahmins, and thus deriving any benefit which intercourse with the most intelligent of their race can confer; while their spiritual inferiority is rather an advantage than ... | 1 | 4,075 | 226 | 4,301 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the most successful warrior, however, naturally taking the first place among them; and two other families besides that of Sevajee (who bore the family name of Puar) had thus become distinguished among the tribes. These were the Sindias and the Holkars, the latter being of the tribe of goatherds, a lower division of the... | 1 | 2,859 | 647 | 3,506 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 22 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | the Afghans, the Maharattas were forced to evacuate the Punjab, and Mulhar, who was one of the few vanquished who escaped, retreated into Central India, and henceforth occupied himself in settling his home possessions. Perhaps it was little thought at the time that one of the most important events of his government was... | 1 | 2,923 | 674 | 3,597 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | execute a terrible vengeance upon his murderer. Most natives of India fully believe that the spirits of the departed can visit and torment the living, and when the embroiderer's innocence was subsequently fully established, remorse and superstitious terror so powerfully affected the prince, as to bring on an attack of ... | 1 | 4,075 | 265 | 4,340 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Her daughter having married into another family, and thus according to Hindu usage resigned all claim upon the patrimonial estate, the bereaved Alia was recommended by her late husband's minister to adopt as a successor some child distantly related to the family; for while he admitted her ability to govern the kingdom ... | 1 | 4,075 | 357 | 4,432 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | honour; but trusting little to the effect of words she made ready also to oppose force by force. The Malwa soldier espoused her cause enthusiastically, and she heightened their ardour by appearing in public with a bow and quiver of arrows affixed at each corner of the howdah or seat on her favourite elephant, and appea... | 1 | 3,051 | 589 | 3,640 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - It is not often that a divided kingdom prospers, jealousy in the weaker or ambition in the stronger party, tending mostly to make it "divided against itself," and all the less was the arrangement likely to succeed where the subordinate place was assigned to the | 1 | 3,949 | 57 | 4,006 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | holder of the military power. Alia Bhyè however proved to have been no weak concotector of impracticable schemes; she knew both what she could herself do and what she might expect from others, and the result fully vindicated her judgment, since, for more than thirty years, she and Tukajee continued to co-operate with e... | 1 | 3,947 | 446 | 4,393 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The army of Alia, under the command of Tukajee, took part in some very stirring events during her reign, for Ragobah, the Evil Genius of that period, having murdered the Peishwa and attempted to assume his place, the Mahratta chiefs combined against the usurper, and thus became involved in a war with the British govern... | 1 | 3,949 | 215 | 4,164 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 26 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | ruling her management to the soundest principles of the most enlightened despotism. Relying on her general's army as a defence against foreign foes, and on her militia to maintain internal tranquillity, she kept but a very few troops about her court; yet so universally was she respected, that her territories were never... | 1 | 2,923 | 687 | 3,610 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | As it is not usual, except in provinces where the custom has been learnt from their Mohammedan conquerors, for Hindoo women to be confined in harems, or even to be veiled when they leave their houses, it was no breach of decorum for Alia Bhye to take a public and active part, as she did, in the administration of affair... | 1 | 3,371 | 503 | 3,874 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - A nation enjoying the happiness of being well-governed, need not concern itself much with the personal motives of its ruler; but in estimating the character of an individual the difference is allimportant whether virtuous conduct has sprung from policy or from principle. It may well be doubted whether mere prudence, ... | 1 | 3,949 | 118 | 4,067 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | 244. THE STORY OF AN INDIAN PRINCESS.
satisfaction of knowing that she was inspired by a loftier feeling, that it was indeed the highest of all motives which prompted her | 1 | 3,949 | 44 | 3,993 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | unvarying excellence. She used to say that she “deemed herself answerable to God for every exercise of power,” and it was her religion, true as a feeling, however false as a creed, which strengthened her to perform all her worldly duties with unwavering diligence and fidelity. Every interval of business not absolutely ... | 1 | 2,923 | 664 | 3,587 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | amounted to two millions sterling) had descended to her; she owned also personal estates yielding annually about four lacs of rupees, all which of course she could spend at discretion; and as soon as the wealth of Holkur came into her possession, she had, by a religious ceremony common among the Hindoos, formally appro... | 1 | 2,923 | 636 | 3,559 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | . Indore, where the name of Alia Bhyé is still not only venerated | 1 | 4,075 | 19 | 4,094 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | but adored, was a place which she specially favoured; and it was indeed by her means that it was raised from being a mere village, to the rank of a wealthy city. This partiality was particularly manifested on one occasion when a banker there having died childless, Tukajee, who was then encamped in the neighbourhood, in... | 1 | 2,859 | 644 | 3,503 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | emergency; this truly ascetic life, in which prayer and work, with the smallest possible amount of rest, were the only alternations, knew little variety beyond what was afforded by religious fasts and festivals, of which she was very observant, her devotions varying every month according to which deity was presiding ov... | 1 | 4,075 | 125 | 4,200 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | as mentioned sixty years.
Destined, like most who have been eminent in moral excellence, to be “perfected through suffering,” a severe trial awaited her declining years. Few family joys had fallen to her share, but when husband and son were both removed, one daughter named Muchta still remained, to whom she was fondly... | 1 | 3,435 | 596 | 4,031 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the exultant multitude, rejoicing, in their blind and bloody superstition, at the insensate triumph over every human sense and feeling. The scene of horror came to an end at last; the hungry flames which had been fed upon living flesh, sank down appeased, dying out now their task was done; and then, calming herself wit... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,385 | 7,103 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | apparel, wearing only, according to the usage of ordinary Hindoo widows, perfectly white garments, unadorned by embroidery or even so much as a variegated border; while a small necklace was her sole article of jewellery.
Alia's learning was but limited, though she could at least read and understand the sacred books of... | 1 | 4,139 | 425 | 4,564 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The wealth which this princess lavished on lazy and ignorant fanatics, and in support of senseless superstitions, might seem to have been so misapplied as to constitute almost a blot on her character, but in her age and country not only could piety scarcely have been otherwise manifested, but even policy equally justif... | 1 | 4,075 | 234 | 4,309 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to effect the object. I was," he added, "in one of the principal offices at Poona during the last years of her administration, and know well what feelings were excited by the mere mention of her name. Among the princes of her own nation it would have been looked upon as sacrilege to have become her enemy, or indeed, no... | 1 | 3,949 | 334 | 4,283 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Mhysir, an ancient city on the north bank of the Nerbudda, the capital of the possessions of the Holkar family; and the chief residence of Alia Bhye during her life-time, now contains her hallowed remains; and while a temple and magnificent flight of steps from the town to the river are specially dedicated to her memor... | 1 | 3,949 | 343 | 4,292 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | this earth but a few years ago in all human and feminine weakness, and found it a pathway to the skies, only by being ever intent on doing all a woman could do to serve Heaven and benefit her race.
... | 1 | 3,825 | 46 | 3,871 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 2 | XXXVIII.—THE ANGEL'S VISIT. | 1 | 3,825 | 12 | 3,837 | B0C0R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 3 | Cloud bars, all purpling-drifting west, Slow melted into fiery rose, | 1 | 3,825 | 17 | 3,842 | B0C0R3 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 4 | Then blank gold lights above the firs,— Such was the mournful evening's close. | 1 | 3,825 | 21 | 3,846 | B0C0R4 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 5 | A dewy mist soft rising spread, And hid the hills with veiling mist, The ghostly herald of the night | 1 | 3,825 | 24 | 3,849 | B0C0R5 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 6 | The day's cold dying forehead kissed. | 1 | 3,825 | 8 | 3,833 | B0C0R6 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 7 | The twilight called her shadowy train, | 1 | 3,825 | 9 | 3,834 | B0C0R7 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 8 | From forests dark where still they linger ; In yon grey level trail of cloud. | 1 | 3,825 | 17 | 3,842 | B0C0R8 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 9 | I saw a pointing Banshee-finger. | 1 | 3,825 | 10 | 3,835 | B0C0R9 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 10 | And now my cottage (cage of roses) | 1 | 3,825 | 10 | 3,835 | B0C0R10 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 11 | Stood out to face the coming night, The northern half was all in shade, | 1 | 3,825 | 18 | 3,843 | B0C0R11 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 12 | The southern part was blanked with white. | 1 | 3,825 | 9 | 3,834 | B0C0R12 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 13 | That day of sullen smouldering heat, | 1 | 3,825 | 10 | 3,835 | B0C0R13 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 14 | Had passed away in angry fire As if the sudden wrath of God, | 1 | 3,825 | 16 | 3,841 | B0C0R14 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 15 | Had smote it with His dreadful ire. | 1 | 3,825 | 10 | 3,835 | B0C0R15 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 16 | The moon her burning golden round | 1 | 3,825 | 6 | 3,831 | B0C0R16 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 17 | Repeated in the silent lake | 1 | 3,825 | 6 | 3,831 | B0C0R17 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 18 | Level and calm, save where on reeds | 1 | 3,825 | 8 | 3,833 | B0C0R18 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 19 | The lisping ripples break. | 1 | 3,825 | 8 | 3,833 | B0C0R19 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 20 | The white flowers on the hedge were closed, | 1 | 3,825 | 9 | 3,834 | B0C0R20 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 21 | The owl was on the beetle's track, The fir-trees rising 'gainst the moon | 1 | 3,825 | 20 | 3,845 | B0C0R21 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 22 | Barred the gold disk with lines of black. | 1 | 3,825 | 10 | 3,835 | B0C0R22 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 23 | That summer night, by Death quick plucked, The roses lapsed with silent fall, The Apricots through silvery dew, | 1 | 3,825 | 27 | 3,852 | B0C0R23 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 24 | Shone on the southern wall. | 1 | 3,825 | 7 | 3,832 | B0C0R24 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 25 | The moon aloft was golden calm, | 1 | 3,825 | 8 | 3,833 | B0C0R25 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 26 | The moon in the lake was still, The firs rose with their lancer ranks | 1 | 3,825 | 16 | 3,841 | B0C0R26 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 27 | Battalioned on the hill. | 1 | 3,825 | 8 | 3,833 | B0C0R27 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | I could not sleep—I rose and sat At the moonlit window-pane : Through the slanting rays all glorified, Old days came back again.
A silver tussuing of dew, Spread o'er the level lawn, The shadows, crouched beneath the trees, Still waited for the dawn.
The bay-trees moved their black plumed heads, As the moon passed qu... | 2 | 4,806 | 445 | 5,251 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Those shadows paced along, My heart beat time—a death-march time, As to a funeral song.
Three times around the moonlit house; They paced in funeral train; Unhooded, pale, they silent passed, Up the long moonlit lane. | 1 | 1,603 | 54 | 1,657 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Once more the moon broke through the cloud, A prisoner set free; Again the lawn wore a silvery bloom, And the crape rose from the tree.
The moon came like an angel sent To bless the sleeping fields, And pools, and brooks, and lakes, and streams, Shone out like silver shields.
No more I felt that the angel sent Would ... | 1 | 3,051 | 377 | 3,428 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Paris, May 18, 1863.
Arren disguising themselves during the Carnival in the skins and plumes of quadrupeds and bipeds of feathered tribe, the Parisians took to staring at the animals they imitated. Last week, and the week before, Crockett's lions, Hermann's bears, and the Dog Exhibition were all the rage in Paris. But... | 1 | 3,179 | 647 | 3,826 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | XL.—OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.
... | 1 | 3,949 | 13 | 3,962 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | hound; their dispositions are more amiable, and they seek the companionship of human beings. In the pack belonging to Baron Juvinal there was a very noble specimen of this breed, which bore, proudly suspended from a collar, a medal awarded to him by some Vendean Nimrods, for having slaughtered a considerable number of ... | 1 | 3,627 | 482 | 4,109 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The latter, to test the judgment of her companion, asked the American lady to remain where she was, and then went away; she had no sooner done so than all the spaniels followed her with their eyes, and whined piteously. They would not take any notice of the remaining person; but when the other returned, set to to wag t... | 1 | 4,075 | 164 | 4,239 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | bull-dogs and bull-terriers were the most ruffianly looking brutes that it is possible to conceive. They and "Ranger" were good types of the different development of humanity at home. One was the personification of honest pride and independence, and the other of the traits which distinguish the class of which "Bill Syk... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,345 | 7,063 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | bushy, and her ears and eyebrows in proportion. Her paws and body were extremely delicate, and her habits dainty and luxurious; she lived in a glass house, and slept on a rose-coloured silk cushion. Her food was served on porcelain, and she drank out of a silver goblet which she won for the proprietor. She was sold to ... | 1 | 3,435 | 558 | 3,993 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_41 |
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