It was one of the most touching, I think the most touching, scene I ever witnessed, when the six daughters weeping profusely knelt around the grave, and amidst their sobs and tears just faltered out the petitions of the Lord’s Prayer in the service.
Morley describes a deeply emotional scene at a funeral, emphasizing the sorrow of the deceased's daughters.
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They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
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