Scinde: Or, The Unhappy Valley, Volume 2

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Page 242 - ... studied insults : thence it shifts lingeringly to a line of shoulder, where, if it could, it would stay ; but on it must go, to understand what a bust is, and to see what a woman's waist might be — not, as you shudderingly recollect, what it is so often made to be — thence — But stop, Mr. Bull. At this rate you will be falling in love with the Moonbeam : — I tremble to think of the spirit in which your lapse would be received by the bonneted, well curled, be-mantled, straight-laced, be-petticoated...
Page 1 - He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men, he should have known no more than other men.
Page 6 - ... (and her opinion upon that subject is worth having), that a downright manner, amounting even to brusqueness, is more effective than any other with the Oriental; and that amongst the English...
Page 67 - Sind, he issued an order promising to hang any one who committed this species of legal murder. Abstractly just, it was uncommonly tyrannical. It was as if the Allied Army at Paris had denounced duelling and, in spite of all the prejudices in its favour, which made the proceeding become a practice, had systematically shot every man convicted of an "affair of honour." The sanguinary custom of the Moslem world overwhelms with ignominy the husband or son of an adulteress who survives the discovery of...
Page 7 - Oriental science at their fingers' ends ; clever at ceremony as Hindus ; dignified in discourse as Turks, whose " Reports " were admirable in point of diction, and whose "Travels" threatened to become standard works, turned out to be diplomatic little children, in the end which tries all things. They had read too much ; they had written too much ; they were a trifle too clever, and much too confident. Their vanity tempted them to shift their nationality ; from Briton to become Greek, in order to...
Page 196 - A man with his saddle on a mare has his saddle on a horse ; a man with his saddle on a horse has his saddle on his head.

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