পাতা:দর্শন দীপিকা.djvu/১৬৮

J לכל ] în Englaid, where alt the personages, as also the humblest labourers, are daily seen quitting their houses an hour or two before dawn, taking a round of some miles, and ere sun rise, returning home; perhaps with an enlivened spirit and a goal keen appetite, Oh ! how happy they are I wish I could have been there.” Young Bengal stopped here, but with the last breath of a deep drawn sigh, he resumed the thread of this conversation. “But how idle and indolent are the natives, they have no exercise of any kind. They will rather smoke away their time than step a single pace from their threshold. Lazy fellows as they why, the génerality of them dó not even leave their beds till the sun is halfway up in his course.” This was too much, Young Bengal had been carried beyond proper bounds by a pistaken zeal of condemning the manners and customs of his country. He was blind to the facts of the koosly and pratosthan, observed unexceptionably by every true Hindu. I was therefore on the point of shewing him his error, when unfortunately we met agentleman of the old school who requested us to go to his house, and there do him a piece of service by explaining a certain paper written