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In other words, the whole system directly cultivates, in all the people, a hollowness of life which does more than anything else to rob India of her manhood and which makes nobility of character and ethical integrity most difficult things among the Hindu community. A Brahman gentleman described the whole system as a "vast hollow sham." And such it is.
It was from the upper window of the office where I was at the work I have described that I could see the men belonging to our firm drilling as special constables in the school yard opposite, in anticipation of trouble in connection with an Irish Rising.
The view from the summit of this hill presented the same broken country to our scrutiny which I have before described, at every point excepting to the westward, in which direction the ranges appeared to cease at about six miles, and the distant horizon from S.W. to N.W. presented an unbroken level.
He described the ground minutely, and the two scouts present confirmed the accuracy of his statements. When the lieutenant proposed that Starcus should act as their guide the truth could no longer be kept back. He made a clean breast of everything. He had been with the hostiles. He was among the fiercest.
The events and incidents which have been described in this chapter were of no great importance in themselves, but they illustrate, more forcibly than any general description would do the nature and the operation of the government exercised by Darius throughout the vast empire over which he found himself presiding.
Both the seamen described the captain's conduct, both then and during the whole voyage, as outrageous, and I do not much doubt that it was so. They gave their evidence like men who wished to tell the truth, and were moved by no more than a natural indignation at the captain's wrong.
It should, however, be borne in mind that what is here described is to be understood only as a transition state.
Afterwards they came and sat in the room again, and now mother had finished her work and could sit with them. Possibly it was principally out of feminine curiosity that the mother asked, but the question was a very welcome one to Hans. He described everything minutely, and with such evident happiness, that the old people were almost at once carried away by his story.
In eloquent words he described to Diodoros and Melissa all he had felt, and the terrible consequences of his heedless folly, and as he spoke acute regret filled his eyes with tears. He had pronounced judgment on himself, and expected nothing of his friend but a little pity.
The Rock Bridge is described by Mr. Jefferson, late President of the United States, as one of the most sublime of the productions of Nature. It is on the ascent of a hill which seems to have been cloven through its length by some great convulsion of Nature.