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Page i - OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Page 168 - ... Ja-han. There are records at Agra showing that certain suggestions of the Italian were adopted, but it is common belief that the general design was the recommendation of a Turkish or Persian architect named Ustad Isa. In keeping with an old Tartar custom, a garden was chosen as the site of the tomb— a garden planted with flowers and fragrant shrubs, emblems of life, and solemn cypresses, emblems of death and eternity. In Mogul days such a garden was maintained as a pleasure ground during the...
Page 95 - Kill not — for Pity's sake — and lest ye slay The meanest thing upon its upward way. Give freely and receive, but take from none By greed, or force or fraud, what is his own. Bear not false witness, slander not, nor lie ; Truth is the speech of inward purity.
Page 278 - Gem of the orient earth and open sea, Macao! that in thy lap and on thy breast Hast gathered beauties all the loveliest, Which the sun smiles on in his majesty.
Page 278 - Bends to the breeze and how thy sands are prest With gentlest waves which ever and anon Break their awakened furies on thy shore. Were these the scenes that poet looked upon, Whose lyre though known to fame knew misery more f They have their glories and earth's diadems Have nought so bright as genius
Page 180 - God's footstool has any queen such a monument, and it is even more beautiful in the silver dress of moonlight than in the golden robes of the midday sun.
Page 221 - The number of cattle destroyed by snakes and wild beasts was 98,582. The other side of the account shows that 65,146 snakes and 16,121 wild animals were killed, for which rewards aggregating $37,000 were paid.
Page 241 - Passing over twenty centuries we find the metropolis of the present time, with its two million people, the most satisfying, fascinating, and puzzling city in the Orient, if not in the whole world.
Page 62 - Public buildings almost pretentious in size and design rise from the earth in a few days, including a residence for the governor of Ceylon, who is expected to grace the fishery by a visit ; one for the government agent of the province in which the interesting industry is carried on ; and another for the delegate of the Colonial Office. There rise, mushroom-like, as well, a court-house, treasury, hospital, prison, telegraph-office and post-office, and a fair example of that blessing of the East known...
Page 77 - ... selects two piles for the Government, whilst the other is divided among the divers. On their way to their houses these divers are besieged by a surging crowd of natives eager to buy from them their oysters by the dozen or by the half-dozen, or even singly. They may be observed stopping at boutiques and paying their score with oysters, extremely acceptable to the shopkeeper itching to try his luck. In a small way oysters pass current here as the equivalent of coin.