India in the Seventeenth Century

Permit me e to place by the side of this, another of his impressive deliverances In a fine figure the sublimest of Roman poets paints the struggle of warrior hosts upon the plain, the gleam of burnished arms, The fiery wheeling of the horse, the charges that thunder on the ground. [...] Out of the fictitious book I get the e4pression of the life of the time, of the man- ners, of the movement, the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society they old ti,m?s live again, and I travel in the old country cif En4rland. [...] 'rho Afaypole rises in the Strand again, in London, the churches are thronged with daily worshippers, the beaux are gathering in the coffeehouses, the gentry arc going to the Drawing-room, the ladies are thronging to the toy-shops, the chairmen aro jostling in the streets, the footmen arc running with links before the chariots, or lighting round the theatre doors. [...] personal knowhidge and which sounded the knell of Movlrule though for the time being the war seemed but to have strengthened its foundations, for the days of Aurangzeb saw the last expiring blaze of its glory and manifestation of its power, the partial realization of the imperialistic dreams which came to the progeny of Baher through the ivory gate. [...] to some extent in conveying to the young& part of my audience my pense of the solemn importance which attaches to the study of the beginnings of the Lydon East India tOmpany, and,of the history of India in the Seventeenth Century.