Booth, ‘General’ : William Booth (1829-1912), English religious leader, founder & first ‘general’ of the Salvation Army charged with salvaging the souls of pagans.
... Gladstone; we actually condescended to flatter "General" Booth, a vulgar imposter, a convicted charlatan, who has enriched himself by trading on the sentimental emotions of the English middle-class. But here Page 14 too, we thought, the Congress has perhaps made the common mistake of confounding wealth with merit, and has really taken the "General" for quite a respectable person. In the first... the blessings of British rule, and the inscrutable Providence which has laid us in the maternal, or more properly the step-maternal bosom of just and benevolent England. Yet more appalling was the general timidity of the Congress, its glossing over of hard names, its disinclination to tell the direct truth, its fear of too deeply displeasing our masters. But in our then state of mind we were disposed ...
... who loaded and unloaded ships. Nanda gopal made very good use of his men. Specially at election time. "Lebanese Nanda gopal" (the "Rowdies of Nanda gopal") were used by him for voter intimidation, booth capturing, perpetrating electoral frauds, and what not. That is why although the Hindu Party had a greater number of members, it was the European Page 407 Party with fewer members... help for the colony's progress. Godin and Lemaire were always at cross-purposes. In the end the people of Pondicherry got rid of Godin on 3 January 1909. Etienne Flandin, till recently the attorney-general, became the new senator. Moreover he seemed to get on well with Jean Lemaire. Between them, and urged by the then mayor H. Gaebele, they managed to get some long-pending reforms for the French Indian ...
... Englishwomen woke up to a sense of inferiority because men could go to the polling booth and women could not. In England today women can influence elections by their votes and even sit in Parliament. In France women have had no suffrage up to now. They evidently feel not the slightest need to go to the polling booth in order to influence the election of ministers or the trend of politics. Frenchwomen... consonants of the next word no less than the same word since in Latin, unlike in English, the words do not stand out in their individuality as separate units but tend to join up with each other in a general flow. Stress is not the principal determinant. The metres of all ancient languages, including our Sanskrit, are not accentual but quantitative. The quantitative metres wove delight-ful patterns which ...
... one cannot hope very much from it." We are indebted to the West for teaching us how to make democracy work on the ground. We have refined the art of electoral malpractices—rigging, proxy voting, booth capturing, vote buying, not to speak of voter intimidation and violence. Aren't we Indians good pupils of the West? "The young men of Pondicherry and Karikal are sending a protest with signed ... who represent our views to a great extent, Laporte and Richard. Richard is not only a personal friend of mine and a brother in the Yoga, but he wishes like myself, and in his own way works for a general renovation of the world by which the present European civilisation shall be replaced by a spiritual civilisation. In that change the resurrection of the Asiatic races and especially of India is an ...
... Critical or other fashion, or, for that matter, 'interpretation', has been broached as the basis of their practice by two major critics, Helen Vendler writing on the Sonnets of Shakespeare and Stephen Booth on the plays [Russ McDonald, ed. Shakespeare Reread : The Texts in New Contexts (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994), p. 25 and p. 43]. A suitable way to characterise K.D. Sethna's... special world of 'Trisankuswarga' mid-way between earth and heaven. That is, Shakespeare's drama does not content itself with 'hold(ing) the mirror up to nature' or with being 'a just representation of general nature' alone. The overplus of Shakespearian creative poetic energy goes far beyond in that it conjures up new worlds or invents the world anew, this latter 'the invention of human nature' that Harold... Aurobindo, emphasised by Sethna, would remind usthat the same Dr. Johnson who in his Preface to Shakespeare praised the playwright's enduring supremacy as consisting in his 'just representation of general nature' declared in his poem (which is a good critical statement as a whole), the 'Prologue written for Mr. Garrick at the Inauguration of his Drury Lane Theatre' Page 103 .. ...
... is not the word for any and every kind of master-passion or life-ideal carried to the extreme. Wilberforce fighting throughout his life the one evil Slavery was not an obsessional neurotic, General Booth devoting his entire energy to the Salvation Army was not an obsessional neurotic, Spahlinger concentrating for decades on a vaccine for tuberculosis was not an obsessional neurotic—and they were... world-mystery, a Bliss that shall not fade. Our search for lasting Page 35 happiness and conquest of all pain is an agelong one, and perhaps the most dominant strain in our general hunger for Perfection and Permanence. But nowhere in the world do we find a perpetual end of unhappiness, for nowhere is there any Permanence and Perfection. All our sukha, our so-called happiness ...
... citizens to come to Olympia.... A visit to Olympia was not the most comfortable of experiences. The roads were poor and there were few accommodations for visitors. Food could be purchased only from booths and stalls, and drinking water was scarce. Until an ornamental fountain was erected in Roman times, there were only nine freshwater sources to supply the thousands of visitors. Late summer was... safety without fear. There "glorious-limbed youth" — the phrase is Pindar's, the athlete's poet — strove for an honour so coveted as hardly anything else in Greece. An Olympic victor — triumphing generals would give place to him. His crown of wild olives was set beside the prize of the tragedian. Splendour attended him, processions, sacrifices, banquets, songs the greatest poets were glad to write... all the categories and means simply 'excellence'. It may be limited of course by its context; the arete of a race-horse is Page 288 speed, of a cart-horse strength. If it is used, in a general context, of a man it will connote excellence in the ways in which a man can be excel lent — morally, intellectually, physically. Thus the hero of the Odyssey is a great fighter, a wily schemer, a ...
... g proud palaces of perverted Power, Inhuman quarters and demoniac wards... A glut of hideous forms and hideous forms and hideous deeds Paralysed pity in the hardened breast. In booths of sin and night-repairs of vice Styled infamies of the body's concupiscence And sordid imaginations etched in flesh, Turned lust into a decorative art... 73 A barriered autarchy... may be of a perfect perfection." Two years later he wrote: "The first Book has been lengthening out"; and most of it was new. The direction of revision was towards the "Overhead" levels, and the general movement was towards "a possible Overmind poetry". 5 On the other hand, it was not a matter of mere technical progression. Technical mastery had come to him incidentally, but still it was the force... essential character of the poem, Sri Aurobindo wrote in 1947: Savitri is the record of a seeing, of an experience which is not of the common kind and is often very far from what the general human mind sees and experiences... there must be a new extension of consciousness and aesthesis to appreciate a new kind of mystic poetry. 55 For example, when objection was taken to Sri ...
... proud palaces of perverted Power, Inhuman quarters and demoniac wards. ... A glut of hideous forms and hideous deeds Paralysed pity in the hardened breast. In booths of sin and night-repairs of vice Styled infamies of the body's concupiscence And sordid imaginations etched in flesh, Turned lust into a decorative art.. . 81 ... perfect perfection". Two years later he wrote: "The first book has been lengthening and lengthening out"; and most of it was new. The direction of revision was towards the "Overhead" levels, and the general movement was towards "a possible Overmind poetry". 5 On the other hand, it was not a matter of mere technical progression. Technical mastery had come to him incidentally, but still it was the force... ('The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds') in fifteen cantos. It was all still a closely guarded secret between Sethna and Sri Aurobindo, although some - the Mother certainly and afterwards in a general way Nolini - knew very well what was in the offing. Then, on the eve of Darshan Day in November 1938, there was an accident and Sri Aurobindo sustained a fracture: He Was passing from ...
... natural corollary to this, they explained was to be able to put up with unfavourable or annoying circumstances. This had come up because I was very angry with the way the uncouth policemen in the booth attached to Amma’s bedroom wall behaved every night. Much worse than their nasty reactions to my requests to stop the racket they were addicted to, was their congenital harassment of the poor (especially... express it, it becomes an arrow loosed forth and the consequences will prove harmful to you." * After taking his law degree, Appa worked with S. Srinivasa Iyengar (later Advocate-General), and later under Sir P.S. Sivaswami Iyer. According to Sri Aurobindo, although, he began practice (around 1916-17) with only Rs.15-30 a month, his inborn gifts, his many-sidedness, uprightness,... being barred from entering this Ashram." Skanda contracted diarrhoea in 1929. A young sadhak with a medical certificate but no experience tried to help but failed. By the time Dr. André of the General Hospital was called, it was too late. "Some years later Thyaga died, and soon after that Mithran. Then came the biggest shock of all, the passing of Sri Aurobindo. You see, most people turn to Yoga ...
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