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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Aiit. III.?1. General Orders of the Bengal Army. 2. Beavforfs Digest of the Criminal Late. 3. T/te Indian Newspapers for 1856. The hot season is nearly finished. We have by this time almost made an end of the long, dreary, weary days of languor, confinement, and suffering which so richly entitle those who can endure them to the comparatively high rate of Indian allowances. Perhaps in our joy that we have Livkd through another of those given periods we have a little lost sight of the fact that we are another year the nearer to the great Assize. How have we spent the time ? Has the silence of the house, only been .broken by the chattering of the mynas over the water-pots in the verandah, the splashing of the tatty men, the whirr of the thermantidote, or the creak of the punkah press; has this stillness made audible been typical of an inner silence of the moral being;, the silence not of growth, but of decay ? Have we been merely playing the bird of passage; contributing indeed to the store of empty black bottles; otherwise leaving no traces in the desert to tell that we have passed another stage, and are still members of the caravan ? Mai de pays is hard to bear; but man's mental well-being has of old been said to depend more on the soul than the sky: home is not our long home; as Sir Humphrey Gilbert said in the storm, Heaven is as near from one place as another. If therefore we have been looking on this country merely in the light of a place where we are to spend certain painful years, and scrape together from the sweat of savages a miserable provision for a short period of retirement which may never come; or, coming, never satisfy; in such case, no wonder if the burthen of exile have been almost too much for us, if the undue light thrown over the distant view of ou...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458976666
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458976661
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 408 gr


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