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Hasibrahman Posted 5 years ago
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To retrieve the growing effeminacy
Could anyone please explain the parts in bold with examples. I would be grateful if you could also summarize the meaning of these sentences for me.
? To retrieve the growing effeminacy of the Mughals......to put a heart into a decaying system and a faith into a listless soul — such were the problems which confronted the son of Shahjahan who should succeed to his father's splendid but cankering power. It was a task for a prophet like Muhammad or such a king as Theodoric.
----- Stanley Lane Poole
? To retrieve the growing effeminacy of the Mughals......to put a heart into a decaying system and a faith into a listless soul — such were the problems which confronted the son of Shahjahan who should succeed to his father's splendid but cankering power. It was a task for a prophet like Muhammad or such a king as Theodoric.
----- Stanley Lane Poole
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e. the effeminacy was a bad thing that needed to be corrected. "to put a heart into a decaying system and a faith into a listless soul" is using "heart" and "soul" as metaphors in reference to the system of rule/government/society.
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- the effeminacy was a bad thing that needed to be corrected.
- "to put a heart into a decaying system and a faith into a listless soul" is using "heart" and "soul" as metaphors in reference to the system of rule/government/society.
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"retrieve" apparently means "put right" or "remedy", i.e. the effeminacy was a bad thing that needed to be corrected. "to put a heart into a decaying system and a faith into a listless soul" is using "heart" and "soul" as metaphors in reference to the system of rule/government/society.
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