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^Jji {J^j-m «X> ^y^k ,xil>j ^j^a. jlj* iP1 <i*£> jl Jjj^i ^ 5 J- j^x* ^j jj-^i. feftlgj ^j^a. gd&Jf .jJU ji jj^ ^ j!^i~i| i^JLiJi ,>j (jji y^i|j ijjji OJ u t^ir ,_£L| ^j All pride and pain with lust begins, But habit will establish Inst. When custom has your humours fixed Him you hato who draweth you away ; • If you an earth-eater have become, Who pulls your earth away yonr foo will be ; When idol worshippers to statues get at- tached Him they hate who idols doth forbid. When Eblia wished a prince to be, Adam he feigned to despise : " Was this a better prince than, me, Worshipped to be by one like me P"* Dominion poison is, except to Him Who cures all evils from the first ; Fear not a mountain full of snakes, The antidote it certainly contains. Give way to pride's dominion, Who breaks it will your hatred earn ; No matter who would thwart your wish, He will encounter darts of wrath. Who means to weed my humours out Usurps dominion over rue. Had he no evil pride in him, Could fire of strife inflame his mind? Had evil nature not got root, How conld the flame of opposition blaze ? I lo@9 ho his foe conciliate ? Will he enshrine him in his heart Because his evil humour has no root? The ant of lust, habit a serpent made ; Okill the snake of lust at first. Or else a dragon will your snake become; But all mistake their snakes for ants ! Do you from sages take advice. BOOK A Comparative Grammar of the Modern 'Aryan Liv- ouiats op [mm. j to wit, Hindi, Punjabi, sindul Cujarbi. Man'Ltlil, OriyA, and Ba6jjall. By John Beamas' Bengal Civil Servica. Vol. I. On Soonda. (London- Tnibner and Co. 18"2). Mr. Beames apologizes for the " many imperfec- tions" of which he is aware as marking his work and sorrowfuUy speaks of the exceedingly little leisure which a Bengal Civilian can command from his official duties. We fear the little is becoming less ; and we gratefully accept the work before us as a proof of what indomitable perseverance can accomplish under dilficnltir>.s. T he sight of Dr. Caldwell's Comparative Q ■ of ike Dr>h-ij;.i,t Zangmtfe* led Mr. Beames 365 to resolve to provide, if possible, a similar comparison of the Aryan dia lects of India. He is Worship Adam ; they worshipped, save Eblia, who refoW and was puffed up with prid*?' n-raaea NOTICES. well acquainted with Panjabi* Hindi, Bahgnli, and OriyA; and he has collected much informati- garding Marathi, Gujarati, and Sindhi. His hooks of reference, however, in the " remote wilderness" of Balasore have been, he says, sadly few. The present volume contains only the Phoni of the Aryan group. Two more volumes will b. required in order to complete the work. Mr. Beames has an Introduction extending to l-'l pages. It is not very well arranged, and it abounds in repetitions ; but it is animated, and even sprightly. Ridmtem dfcersverum qui,? r.t„t ' Mr Beames ia fond of a joke, and dexterously pro- vides one now aud then for his flagging read The bask which Mr. Beames has set himself is by no means an easy on e. The ancient languages Th» translator does not take it on himself to com metre, whon it happens to be faulty.
