The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at BangkokJ.R. Osgood, 1873 - 321 หน้า |
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หน้า 77 - It is difficult to comprehend how men, not assisted by revelation, could have soared so high, and approached so near to the truth.' ' Besides the five great commandments not to kill, not to steal, not to commit adultery, not to lie, not to get drunk, every shade of vice, hypocrisy, anger, pride, suspicion, greediness, gossiping, cruelty to animals, is guarded against by special precepts.
หน้า 77 - I do not hesitate," says Burnouf, in his Lotus de la Bonne Lot, " to translate by ' charity ' the word maitri, which does not express friendship, or the feeling of particular affection which a man has for one or more of his fellowcreatures, but that universal feeling which inspires us with good-will toward all men and a constant willingness to help them.
หน้า 143 - His (that is, the elephant's) eyes were light blue, surrounded by salmon-color ; his hair fine, soft, and white ; his complexion pinkish white ; his tusks like long pearls ; his ears like silver shields ; his trunk like a comet's tail ; his legs like the feet of the skies ; his tread like the sound of thunder ; his looks full of meditation ; his expression full of tenderness ; his voice the voice of a mighty warrior ; and his bearing that of an illustrious monarch.
หน้า 58 - The hedge broke in, the banner blew, The butler drank, the steward scrawled, The fire shot up, the martin flew, The parrot screamed, the peacock squalled, The maid and page renewed their strife, The palace banged, and buzzed and clackt, And all the long-pent stream of life Dashed downward in a cataract.
หน้า 53 - This is my wife, the Lady Talap. She desires to be educated in English. She is as pleasing for her talents as for her beauty, and it is our pleasure to make her a good English scholar. You shall educate her for me.' I replied that the office would give me much pleasure; for nothing could be more eloquently winning than the modest, timid bearing of that tender young creature in the presence of her lord. She laughed low and pleasantly as he translated my sympathetic words to her, and seemed so enraptured...
หน้า 92 - Take thy meat, but think it dust! Eat but to live, and but to know thyself, and what thou art below! And say withal unto thy heart, 't is earth I eat, that to the earth I may new life impart." Then the chief priest, who led the. procession, advanced with downcast eyes and lowly mien, and very simply presented his bowl (slung from his neck by a cord, and until that moment quite hidden under the folds of his yellow robe) to the members of the royal ' household, who offered their fruit or cakes, or...
หน้า 186 - Thou sacred One, I take refuge in thee.' A few minutes more, and the spirit of the high priest of Siam had calmly breathed itself away. The eyes were open and fixed ; the hands still clasped ; the expression sweetly content. My heart and eyes were full of tears, yet I was comforted. By what hope ? I know not, for I dared not question it.
หน้า 80 - Accomplishment of Reason," or "Transcendental Wiidom," prostrated herself before her royal father, the others following her example. I admired the beauty of her skin, the delicacy of her form, and the subdued lustre of her dreamy eyes. The king took her gently by the hand, and presented me to her, saying simply, " The English teacher." Her greeting was quiet and self-possessed. Taking both my hands, she bowed, and touched them with her forehead ; then, at a word from the king, retired to her place...
หน้า 291 - Rome have left us, and addressing us with a significance all the sadder and more solemn for the desolation and barbarism which surround it. Unhappily, the shocks of war, seconding the slowly grinding mills of time, have left but few of these noble monuments ; and slowly, but ruthlessly, the work of destruction and decay goes on. Vainly may we seek for any chronicle of the long line of monarchs who must have swayed the sceptre of the once powerful empire of Maha Naghkon. Only a vague tradition has...
หน้า 49 - As often as my thought reverts to this inspiring shrine, reposing in its lonely loveliness amid the shadows and the silence of its consecrated groves, I cannot find it in my heart to condemn, however illusive the object ; but rather I rejoice to admire and applaud the bent of that devotion which could erect so proud and beautiful a fane in the midst of moral surroundings so ignoble and unlovely — a spiritual remembrance perhaps older and truer than paganism, ennobling the pagan mind with the idea...