 | American periodicals - 1842 - 654 pages
...the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to...Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, arc the weapons, offensive and defensive, of... | |
 | Francis Augustus Cox - General Baptist mission - 1842 - 464 pages
...the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to...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 - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...Ionian of the times of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to...Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons, offensive and defensive, of... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...Ionian of the times of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to...Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons, offensive and defensive, of... | |
 | Shoemakers - 1849 - 644 pages
...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, what the sting is to...the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengallee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery,... | |
 | Shoemakers - 1849 - 366 pages
...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,...the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengallec. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery,... | |
 | Theology - 1857 - 992 pages
...Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jews of the darkest ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to...the old Greek song, is to woman — deceit is to the Bengali. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery,... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - Bengal (India) - 1854 - 410 pages
...the time of Juvenal, or to the Jews of the darkest ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what^the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee,...the old Greek song, is to woman — deceit is to the Bengali. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery,... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - Bengal (India) - 1854 - 412 pages
...Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jews of the darkest ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to 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 - Literature - 1855 - 670 pages
...multum in paroo power. Thus his valuation of the Bengalee mind : " What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to...Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate, tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons, offensive and defensive, of... | |
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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,... 
