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Common terms and phrasesadmired art the sea Babington Beschi's catechist blessed Virgin blessed Virgin Mary Brahmin called canto chapter Chintamani Christian church clouds College College Board composed by Beschi composition copy couplet desire destiny devotion divine doctrine elephantiasis Ellis's eminence endeavoured evanescent extract F. W. Ellis Father Beschi Father Beschi's Poem flowers flying chariot G iu hath head treats heathen heaven high Tamil Hindoo Hindu holy honour Jesuits Joseph Latin translation learned Lord Madras Madras College Manapar Missionary mountain natives obtained palankeen penance Pillei poetry poets Potensa praise thee prosody purity Reverend Father Roberti Nobili Shen Tamil Grammar shewing Sivasiven six attributes Society of Jesuits souls species Specimen of Father stanzas streams superior dialect Tamil language Tembavani Thou art thou who art tion Tonnul Tranquebar Trichinopoly verse Vilaccam Viramamuni virtue wealth word worship Popular passagesPage 23 - European constitutions, particularly to one who led such a life as he did, shortened his life ; and consigned him to a world of better existence, where he is no doubt gone to receive the reward of a life well spent in the discharge of those duties, which devolved upon him as a man and a Christian. He died at Manapar in the year 1742. Page 9 - ... in the district of Baroor, and my MS. notices particularly a picture of the Madonna and the child Jesus, which he caused to be painted at Manilla and set up in that church. It was in honour of this Madonna, of her husband Joseph and the Lord Jesus, that he composed the Sacred Poem called Tembavani... Page 32 - Jo devotion, covered only by the mantle of female modesty. " On the flying chariot of Desire, she arrived at the Desert of Sin; on the flying chariot of Fear, she repaired to the Mountains of Penitence ; on the flying chariot of resplendent Wisdom, she entered the grove of Growing Virtue ; and on the flying chariot of My Name, she shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Page 20 - and intended to enter more fully into the subject in the preface to his own translation, which unhappily he did not live to finish. The portion translated by Mr. Ellis himself was intended to comprehend the fist part only, called Arappal on virtue, containing twenty four chapters. « In pursuance of this resolution, eighteen chapters of the Cural were translated and exemplified with quotations from the best Tamil authors : of these chapters which he. translated, thirteen only were printed and the... Page 4 - Herald, 1841, vol. I, pp. 75-6, 94-7, 107-10. It is a translation made, at the desire of Walter Elliot, Esq., by AM Pillai of his Tamil life of Beschi. He tells us that for this Tamil life he availed himself in 1822 of the mss. which in 1798 had been prepared by Vidwan Saminada Pillei, an excellent Tamil poet, and the author of many Tamil works. In addition to the assistance derived from this source, I was in possession of many interesting and important facts regarding Father Beschi, which I gleaned... Page 32 - Mariyal, overleaping the fence of modesty, had at first plunged into the sea of carnal desire, yet at last, having determined to perform austerities with the purest devotion, she will retire from the world, and long remain here. " The eye perceives not the colour by which it is darkened ; and who are they who see their own faults, apparent to all others ? But she, remembering of herself her minutest sins, and borne on the wings of mental resolution, produced by reflecting on the truth she perceived,... Page 39 - ... proceeding from a prescribed destiny f Listen sedulously to the explication of the exalted faith taught by the Lord. " If there be a prescribed destiny it is impossible to avoid it; all crooked actions, therefore, must be considered as the fault of destiny, not the fault of the mind which it affects; all virtuous actions, also, must be referred to destiny and cannot be considered as virtues of the mind; consequently, neither virtue, nor vice can be attributed to men. " To demonstrate that which... Page 21 - Tamil, of which there are a great number, is the only one which is entirely arranged in alphabetical order, the words in the others (a few sections excepted, in which the alphabetical form is used from... Page 32 - L daren poured the pure gold thus obtained into the mould of religion; and, having enchased it with precious jewels, he became an ornament for the breast of the God he adored. Page 15 - ... and what have we from their own authors to adduce in aid of truth, except the verses of their poets ? For, since all their writings are in verse, they have reduced to metre their rules of art, and even the rudiments of their language : whence, they naturally suppose, that he who does not understand their poetry, is totally ignorant. Moreover, there are excellent works in Tamil poetry on the subject of the divine attributes and the nature of virtue; and if, by producing texts from them, we turn... Bibliographic information
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