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* I made & short triaV last w ^ K ^ wjien Sir ; H . $ Mr . Maj * s assistant , and my self ! , look our boat inurder to see what prospect there was of opening schools higher up the river . The weather is seldom other than fine 5 the scenery on each side is beau tiful , though the country is in general level * We arrived opposite JBankippre about sixteen mites up , in the , evening
sent i nto the vilikg-e and got some excellent rinilk for slipper ; no Europeans iii the nei o hbourhood . " Going" up , especially in the evening , you see tike Hindoos Durnirig their dead .
One party told us they had come to the hanks of the Ganges , I | p day ' s journey from inland * This does not strike me as inhuman . Whilst supper yvas preparing ^ I walked by the village , Indian huts , overshadowed and vs | irrpujnded bylarge . trees ^ t ] he coiipa ,, &cf wjiose tops appear illumined
, by numherless fiire-flies , their tigfiTt lohger and . biigliter than ti \ at of the glow-woriq . It was a clear moon-light . It was natural to think of England , my errand , and the providence tkat brought hie there . We had
not long Iain down , in our boat , before our ears were assailed by the dismal yells of tjjie jackals and harking : of dogs v nor wxnijd they cea ^ e to annoy us _ Some of the natives , I suppose , too poor . Jp afford wood , had left one of their dead on the
beach , and in the morning nothing- remained but V the bones , horrid and dislusii ^ ^ ,, ^ _ i ; t ; ., v : ; : >; i ;« u I ? f walked Ji ^ o , tl ^ e . jilja ^ e , ere the « w ^ W ; TO * m PK * M ? * $ & c ? p « pt $ a around us the Bramii ^ s , chief 4 meny children , & v - a . W ^ iiff , kaQwnpur , object ,
theyjreceive ^ the intejii ^ enq ^ . witqjoy , saidjityvas go $ d news / an& broug- ]] t out somft of then * \ W % * w mg < x £ bftpimml ' $ ** . } & 9 m $ r # p . his walking- § iio ^ . Et ^ rop ^ fin ^ and / wrorjth one shiiliiig : ; promised us 100 or 150 bovs fof a scliopl . Immense monki ^ scampered met
qp t ^ ( r » e /|' ^! etynping-, i ^ e were , by the Bramins from another villag *^ attended by about forty boys , ifine chHdren and * wp . ftf ? nt ^ ^ j % v 4 ^ l » r ^ ^ jwfe ac ^ contpapeid * { iy tftis ^ etinue , we yisifed ano ^ \\ W * v&ie&J ^ ^ nfe ^ a school . ^ Presen ^ tily af ^ erwar ^ s tqe Jtat ^ zdar , a native , ( lord of the manor , ) s ^ nt his be ^ t cpmplimen ^ s , requesting u £ ^ call , y ^ e waited
on his honour , and were received . with much po ^ litonees . , He offered .. us a schoplhouse , his assistance , Sec . We found plenty o / woi ^ . , We slept qtt | et | $ in tH ^ rjyer W » i . iHgfcit » . ^ rftujened the >« t day . § o > Bfi ^ te ^ hoojs are Jbeld under tre ^ s
wh ^» ^ fflp ^ tevjWff . *«« ¥ » . y \ % > s ? e « fif ^ ffi . ^ PWfc s ^ cie ^ Jr [ loudj ^ V en ) Mt ] ie gM ^* WStew i » ,. i ^» «* Jfy ^ ^; may heat p ^ of tlie ^ cl ^ ools , which 18 oyer the water ; nalr a inile o # «
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" ¦ iC woinfebtfrnt teiML the other day on the other side of ine river , nearfy opposite . I It new not tiff tne horrid deed waS done . God be praised , many eminent rier sons are exerting * themselves in order to tfte abolition of the practice . I have told , yoti
nothing of ; our worif in general . Gredt things are doing , and greater , I doubt npt ^ on the eve of being done ; and , O Iiow . car » I but rejoice that I am in tfie midst or it j A native school book sWietyy with tlie Marquis of Hasting at the heai of « i ^ subscribers or paWotis , has j ast cdrnirierfced j trom which ,- I trust , we may date a ne % a ? ra . ^'
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Sylva JBiographica . Sir , JafLimryS , 1818 .
ONE Of the notices oh ydxxr 66 ver , resecting Me ejitefeti MtiMMi retomdS pcie of a firo ^ t tvM&i I fe ^ occ ^ ibfi ^ lly entertairiec ^ aWd , as ofiM designed toprof > 6 is ^ to yo ^ r (^ WduMp ^ ment . Peril aps ; the pregett tjmfe offer * itself with pieculilir projpri ^ ty , as th ^ promised iSsMty can ^ cdrcely fkil 0 proriidt ^ an mUffitj iiiio this pdlftM ^ reli ^ ioa ^ arid literary clia ^ Scte ^ of fli ^
rtieh whdsfe li ^ es exeniplifled thiSe Varieties ^ f fbrtfarie whi ch ctfitiiiufe fd gitfe , diidiorig tttfiby rekdfc ^ 6 f EnglM history ^ a peculiar interest to the I ^ tfi cfentffr ^ . Zln C ^ My and tKe Me ^ l r . Psi ?^ liier Havfe Wfitteh their kbry , Witifi . £ frienklut rather thaii k cHiuM r&h :
BMrhkny of tlifem hSve b ^ en bVbiipt before dtidther b ^ Ographter , # Wd , a § t 8 their faulty was indisposed to extchiMh ktiy thiii ^ , evfeii if lie hks a # ^ sbcfett car ^ flil tipt to sit idoivVt aught in matfee . I refer to Wood ' s Accoiint tit tttdg ' & who were w . Hteii ariibrigf the itjedtid Ministers , and $ hd had th ^ ir
eduditibh at Oxford , or , iri sbthe instatic % Oril ^ $ rtidiiMl ! ed there . While the fefeii - Siiir ^ of sii bh d bidgi- ^ iier mukt be revived With caiitioii , his praise # il ! have peculiar value , as fektprteil from &ri adversary , d high-clihrftli fbyjfrKst , ^ vhd w a ^ j tooRirig tdwdhis Wtatiik rather than Geneva .
I propose 1 | o mention each writer at the date of h | s decease , according to my author ' s plan , and to abridge the lives in his own language , isbnae p ^ ssages of which I am little disposed to ^ d 6 t > t * Thfe Not ^ from lite worki and thpse probably numerbn * , from Cufe-^ Vs Account ^ h& ContMwm , ivd VM&ieH ^ t ^ tcMfbriHiM MmiM
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 103, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/23/
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