The Life and Life-work of Behramji M. Malabari: Being a Biographical Sketch, with Selections from His Writings and Speeches on Infant Marriage and Enforced Widowhood, and Also His "Rambles of a Pilgrim Reformer." |
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Agra Ahmedabad amongst appeal Babu Bania Behram Behramji better Bombay Brahman bride caste cause ceremony child marriage co-operation custom daughter enforced widowhood English evil father favour feel gentlemen give Government Gujarati happy Hindu friends Hindu girl Hindu law Hindu reformers Hindu widows honour hope husband India Indian Spectator infant marriages interest interference Keshub Chunder Sen Khialis Lala leaders living Lord Ripon Lucknow Mahomedan Malabari Marriage and Enforced married matter Max Müller means meeting ment moral mother Munshi nation Native Niti Vinod opinion orthodox Pandit Pandit Pran Nath parents Parsi patriotic poor practical Prasad priest proposal question Ragoonath Row Raja Ram Mohan Roy remarriage remarry Rukhmabai Shastras Singh social reform society suffer suggestion Surat Suttee sympathy thing tion verses widow marriage wife woman women young
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Page xxxiv - ... 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 lx - Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...
Page 238 - ... shall be punished with transportation for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Page lx - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Page 1889 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies.
Page 1889 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page v - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Page lxxx - HIBBERT LECTURES ON THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF RELIGION, as illustrated by the Religions of India.
Page xxxiv - What is she, cut from love and faith. But some wild Pallas from the brain Of Demons? fiery-hot to burst All barriers in her onward race For power. Let her know her place; She is the second, not the first.
Page lx - Thronging through the cloud-rift, whose are they, the faces Faint revealed yet sure divined, the famous ones of old? "What" — they smile — "our names, our deeds so soon erases Time upon his tablet where Life's glory lies enrolled? "Was it for mere fool's-play, make-believe and mumming, So we battled it like men, not boylike sulked or whined? Each of us heard clang God's 'Come!