What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, according to the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood,... Irrigated India, an Australian View of India and Ceylon: Their Irrigation ... - Page 81by Alfred Deakin - 1893 - 322 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1842 - 654 pages
...to admiration not unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are the natural defence of the weak, are more familiar to this subtle race than to the...the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery,... | |
| Francis Augustus Cox - 1842 - 464 pages
...arts which are the natural defence of the weak, are more familiar to this subtle race than they were to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew...what beauty, according to the old Greek song, is to woman,—deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...natural defence of the weak, are more familiar with this subtle race than to the Ionian of the times of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the...the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to ' the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery,... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...184 natural defence of the weak, are more familiar this subtle race than to the Ionian of the times of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the...the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery,... | |
| 1849 - 356 pages
...to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger,...the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengallee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery,... | |
| 1849 - 366 pages
...and his situation are equally unfavorable. All those arts which are the natural defence of the weak, are more familiar to this subtle race than to the...time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What horns are to the buffalo, what the paw 18 to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty,... | |
| Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 768 pages
...Plur. zur Bezeichnung der Gesammthcit : those arts are more familiar to this race than to the Jonian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark, ages (Mar. Ess. IV. 231); the Bengalee is by no means placable (id.) cf. Numerus. Dient das Adjectiv zur... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...to admiration not unmingled with contempt. All those arts which are the natural defence of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the...Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns arc to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, according... | |
| Macleod Wylie - 1854 - 412 pages
...this subtle race than they were to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jews of the darkest ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what the...tiger, what the sting is to the bee, 'what beauty, aecording to the old Greek song, is to woman — deceit is to the Bengali. Large promises, smooth excuses,... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1855 - 670 pages
...few terse and graphic words, of multum in paroo power. Thus his valuation of the Bengalee mind : " What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is...the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate, tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery,... | |
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