The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australia, Volume 17Parbury, Allen, and Company, 1824 - Asia |
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... give rise to the most pleasant sensations ; for as this part of the country is full of tigers , it is really dangerous passing through the smallest portion of jungle during the night . A short time before daybreak the road got very ...
... give rise to the most pleasant sensations ; for as this part of the country is full of tigers , it is really dangerous passing through the smallest portion of jungle during the night . A short time before daybreak the road got very ...
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... give milk ; tasting honey or flesh ; taking the wealth of others ; taking by force a mar- ried woman ; eating flowers , butter , cheese ; and worshipping the gods of other religions . 2. Their Origin . This sect is said to owe its rise ...
... give milk ; tasting honey or flesh ; taking the wealth of others ; taking by force a mar- ried woman ; eating flowers , butter , cheese ; and worshipping the gods of other religions . 2. Their Origin . This sect is said to owe its rise ...
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... gives the greatest charm to the new course , and adds a spirit to our dull energies , hitherto in tone with the ... give the traveller a faint idea of what he would meet with in the deserts of Arabia , or the parched plains in the ...
... gives the greatest charm to the new course , and adds a spirit to our dull energies , hitherto in tone with the ... give the traveller a faint idea of what he would meet with in the deserts of Arabia , or the parched plains in the ...
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... give a very short narrative of some of the principal events of Mr. Grant's meritorious life . He promised the Court that it should not be long . In- itself , and did not call for any protracted deed , the career of Mr. Grant spoke for ...
... give a very short narrative of some of the principal events of Mr. Grant's meritorious life . He promised the Court that it should not be long . In- itself , and did not call for any protracted deed , the career of Mr. Grant spoke for ...
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... give rise to a great deal of trouble and in- convenience , and would be the means of creating much unpleasant discussion in that Court . Gentlemen might hereafter , if the motion were successful , be placed in a most painful and ...
... give rise to a great deal of trouble and in- convenience , and would be the means of creating much unpleasant discussion in that Court . Gentlemen might hereafter , if the motion were successful , be placed in a most painful and ...
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Page 509 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 509 - Say, shall we yield him, in costly devotion, Odours of Edom, and offerings divine ? Gems of the mountain, and pearls of the ocean, Myrrh from the forest...
Page 509 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 510 - Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll ; Till like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole : Till o'er our ransomed nature, The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Page 171 - THE PHILOSOPHY OF Music ; being the substance of a Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February and March 1877. By William Pole, FRS, FRSE, Mus.
Page 509 - Cold on His cradle the dew-drops are shining, Low lies His head with the beasts of the stall ; Angels adore Him in slumber reclining, Maker, and Monarch, and Saviour of all ! 3.
Page 509 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.
Page 439 - Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath.
Page 159 - Tippoona until evening ; and, as we were preparing to return to the ship, we were drawn to that part of the beach where the prisoners were, by the most doleful cries and lamentations. Here was the interesting young slave in a situation that ought to have softened the heart of the most unfeeling. " The man who had slain her father, having cut off his head, and preserved it by a process peculiar to these islanders, took it out of a basket where it had hitherto been concealed, and threw it into the...
Page 405 - ... reference, not to their nominal, but to their real occupations. They are required to discharge the functions of Magistrates, Judges, Ambassadors, and Governors of provinces, in all the complicated and extensive relations of those sacred trusts and exalted stations, and under peculiar circumstances, which greatly enhance the solemnity of every public obligation, and aggravate the difficulty of every public charge.