cover image: The Calcutta Review  An Illustrated Monthly  (Third Series) February 1922

Premium

20.500.12592/5bsgqs

The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) February 1922

1922

A feature of history so told will be the contrast between the length at which the story of the heroic periods the life-times of the different national heroes is told and the condenstion of the history of other periods into a few lines each. [...] He believed that in the meantime men should concentrate their thoughts on the better government of human societies-; and he believed that in that domain the past had come much nearer the truth than in the domain of religion ; that there was consequently much more to be learned from the study of it than from the study of the religious life of the past. [...] It is a history condensed in the Biblical manner of Kaiser Barbarossa the Teutonic Order Brandenburg and the Hohenzollerns and their predecessors LUther and the Reformation the Thirty Years' War the Great Elector Frederick William Frederick."1922] THE CARLYLE LEGEND 217 the Great's father Frederick the Great Peter the Great -Leibnitz George I of England Voltaire Louis XV and the Pom [...] The tradition of the Apostle still maitains a strong hold in India 'especially among the Malabar Christians where the Feast of S. Thomas celebrated.on the 3rd of July is regarded as the principal Feast of the year and where in every family there is a boy who bears the Apostle's name. [...] The ensuing repentance of the tyrant who submits to baptism at the hands of Sitaraman seems a foreshadowing of the penance done by an English king of a later century at the tomb of a saint and archbishop who bore the name of the Apostle.
history
Pages
217
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-203 unknown view
The Carlyle Legend
204-221 J.S. Chapman view
The Rose of India
222-232 Francis Judd view
Indian Exchange in 1920 and its Lessons
233-242 B. Rau view
Lela Rajkumari
243-265 K.O. Na view
The Abbasids in Asia
266-276 S. Bukhsh view
Vengeance is Mine
277-293 Kanaiyalal Munshi view
Green-Flies
294-304 Cedric Dover view
Landmarks in the History of English
305-333 W. A. Craigle view
In and around Calcutta
334-349 unknown view
The Legend of Yima
350-354 Abinash Das view
Reviews
355-360 unknown view
Ourselves
361-414 unknown view

Related Topics

All