The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australia, Volume 18Parbury, Allen, and Company, 1824 - Asia |
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... situation in which they are now placed by their treaties of alliance with the British Government . We have con- sequently omitted to notice any thing peculiarly characteristic of any one of them , where the cause of such pe- culiarity ...
... situation in which they are now placed by their treaties of alliance with the British Government . We have con- sequently omitted to notice any thing peculiarly characteristic of any one of them , where the cause of such pe- culiarity ...
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... situation of Mhow is equally im- portant to check the restless temper of the Mahrattas , and effectually to pre- vent any fresh organization of the Pindarree system . The only remaining state which de- mands our notice , as under the ...
... situation of Mhow is equally im- portant to check the restless temper of the Mahrattas , and effectually to pre- vent any fresh organization of the Pindarree system . The only remaining state which de- mands our notice , as under the ...
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... situation to the west of the pole is exactly taken , and the dip there is found to have di- minished , it will be a proof that the magnetic pole has shifted eastward from the original position . Knowing the time of a quarter ...
... situation to the west of the pole is exactly taken , and the dip there is found to have di- minished , it will be a proof that the magnetic pole has shifted eastward from the original position . Knowing the time of a quarter ...
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... situation of the mag- netic pole , its equator coincides nearly with the ecliptic ; but it is manifest , that as the pole revolves , the magnetic equator must be constantly changing the angle it forms with the ecliptic , and with the ...
... situation of the mag- netic pole , its equator coincides nearly with the ecliptic ; but it is manifest , that as the pole revolves , the magnetic equator must be constantly changing the angle it forms with the ecliptic , and with the ...
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... situation of the more important countries then occupied by them , they were the first to come in contact with the Mussulman Missionaries , and to embrace their tenets . Their power was on the decline when Europeans first visited their ...
... situation of the more important countries then occupied by them , they were the first to come in contact with the Mussulman Missionaries , and to embrace their tenets . Their power was on the decline when Europeans first visited their ...
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Page 285 - Committee that it is the duty of this country to promote the interests and happiness of the native inhabitants of the British dominions in India, and that such measures ought to be adopted as may tend to the introduction among them of useful knowledge, and of religious and moral improvement.
Page 62 - WILLIAMS WYNN, MP, President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The...
Page 21 - Let it still be the boast of Britain to write her name in characters of light ; let her not be remembered as the tempest whose course was desolation, but as the gale of spring, reviving the slumbering seeds of mind, and calling them to life from the winter of ignorance and oppression.
Page 290 - One topic remains — my removal of restrictions from the press, has been mentioned in laudatory language. I might easily have adopted that procedure without any length of cautious consideration, from my habit of regarding the freedom of publication as a natural right of my fellow-subjects, to be narrowed only by special and urgent cause assigned.
Page 192 - Animadversions on the measures and proceedings of the Honourable Court of Directors, or other public authorities in England, connected with the Government of India, or disquisitions on political transactions of the local administration, or offensive remarks levelled at the public conduct of the Members of the Council, of the Judges of the Supreme Court, or of the Lord Bishop of Calcutta.
Page 223 - Bell, our medical friend who had accompanied us, had saved their coats ; but the tail of mine, with a pocket handkerchief, served to keep Sophia's feet warm, and we made breeches for the children with our neckcloths. Rain now came on, but fortunately it was not of long continuance, and we got dry again. The night became serene and star-light...
Page 222 - We were, perhaps, too happy, for in the evening came a sad reverse. Sophia had just gone to bed, and I had thrown off half my clothes, when a cry of ' Fire, fire !' roused us from our calm content, and in five minutes the whole ship was in flames ! I ran to examine whence the flames principally issued, and found that the fire had its origin immediately under our cabin. Down with the boats ; where is Sophia ? here ; the children ? here; a rope ; the side ; lower Lady Raffles — Give her to me, says...
Page 134 - I slept tolerably well, although I was obliged to get up five or six times during the night to take a walk or run for the benefit of my feet. While thus employed, I discovered that the Yakuti had drawn the fire from our side to theirs, a trick which I determined to counteract the next night.
Page 100 - Esq. surgeon extraordinary to the King, and Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
Page 134 - The Yakuti then with their axes proceeded to fell timber, while I and the Cossack with our lopatkas, or wooden spades, cleared away the snow which was generally a couple of feet deep. We then spread branches of the pine tree, to fortify us from the damp or cold earth beneath us: a good fire was now soon made, and each bringing a leathern bag from the baggage, furnished himself with a seat. We then put the kettle on the fire, and soon forgot the sufferings of the day.