General Report on Public Instruction, in the Lower Provinces of the Bengal Presidency, for ...W. Ridsdale., 1848 |
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... prepared , in strict accordance with the scholarship rules , by the gentlemen whose names are appended to each : English Essay , ... ... ENGLISH SCHOLARSHIPS . Mental and Moral Philosophy , Literature Proper , ... History ...
... prepared , in strict accordance with the scholarship rules , by the gentlemen whose names are appended to each : English Essay , ... ... ENGLISH SCHOLARSHIPS . Mental and Moral Philosophy , Literature Proper , ... History ...
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... prepared . LITERATURE . Prose . - Bacon's Advancement of Learning . Poetry . So much of Milton and Pope as are contained in Richard- son's Selections . Moral and Mental Philosophy . - Smith's Moral Sentiments , Abercrombie's Moral and ...
... prepared . LITERATURE . Prose . - Bacon's Advancement of Learning . Poetry . So much of Milton and Pope as are contained in Richard- son's Selections . Moral and Mental Philosophy . - Smith's Moral Sentiments , Abercrombie's Moral and ...
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... prepared , at present , to sanction the Institution of a University in Calcutta . University of Calcutta . 9. The rules for leave of absence referred to in page 2 Rules for Leave of Absence . of the report for 1843-44 , have been ...
... prepared , at present , to sanction the Institution of a University in Calcutta . University of Calcutta . 9. The rules for leave of absence referred to in page 2 Rules for Leave of Absence . of the report for 1843-44 , have been ...
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... prepare the various books and returns required by the existing regulations , and such a knowledge of plan drawing and mensuration as will assist him in pre- paring plans and estimates , and laying down a building from a plan . Europeans ...
... prepare the various books and returns required by the existing regulations , and such a knowledge of plan drawing and mensuration as will assist him in pre- paring plans and estimates , and laying down a building from a plan . Europeans ...
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... prepared a series of algebraical examples , which the same Society has undertaken to publish . [ pt . 2 . The Council have reprinted Dr. Reid's Inquiry on the Human Mind , which is sold at 1-8 per copy , placing it within the reach of ...
... prepared a series of algebraical examples , which the same Society has undertaken to publish . [ pt . 2 . The Council have reprinted Dr. Reid's Inquiry on the Human Mind , which is sold at 1-8 per copy , placing it within the reach of ...
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Page 179 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise, Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Page 181 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 177 - O poor hapless nightingale, thought I, How sweet thou sing'st, how near the deadly snare ! Then down the lawns I ran with headlong...
Page 57 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth...
Page 185 - If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other and the sides about these equal angles proportional, the triangles are similar.
Page 183 - The five following are the principal circumstances which, so far as I have been able to observe, make up for a small pecuniary gain in some employments, and counterbalance a great one in others...
Page 178 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage.
Page 178 - Unfastens : on a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound The infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Page 181 - We hang one jingling padlock on the mind: A poet the first day he dips his quill; And what the last ? a very poet still. Pity the charm works only in our wall!
Page 57 - But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. T*he master of superstition is the people ; and in all superstition wise men follow fools ; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.