Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, Volume 3Wm. H. Allen & Company, 1817 - Asia Contains "verbatim reports of Debates at the East-India house, taken in shorthand for these pages". -- cf. v. 1, p. iii. |
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... chief justice may find it very proper amusement to contend for the upper hand while their husbands are ab- sent from the Presidency , but in England the wives of John Bull , though glittering in the diamonds of Golconda , or wrapped in ...
... chief justice may find it very proper amusement to contend for the upper hand while their husbands are ab- sent from the Presidency , but in England the wives of John Bull , though glittering in the diamonds of Golconda , or wrapped in ...
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... chief men , and told them he appointed his eldest son , the Panambahan of Mam- pawa , to succeed him , and dispatched a person to summon the Panambahan into his presence . Next day the chiefs assem- bled , and declared that they desired ...
... chief men , and told them he appointed his eldest son , the Panambahan of Mam- pawa , to succeed him , and dispatched a person to summon the Panambahan into his presence . Next day the chiefs assem- bled , and declared that they desired ...
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... chief of Sambas attacked Mampawa , and had very nearly taken the fort . Immediately on receiving intelligence of it , the present Sultan pro- ceeded to Mampawa with two thousand men , and defeated the Sambas army , ta- king their guns ...
... chief of Sambas attacked Mampawa , and had very nearly taken the fort . Immediately on receiving intelligence of it , the present Sultan pro- ceeded to Mampawa with two thousand men , and defeated the Sambas army , ta- king their guns ...
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... chief reliance on that hardy race , the mountaineers of Afghanistan . His recent attempt and failure in the in- vasion of the valley of Kashmir have attached a celebrity to his character it could not have otherwise obtained . In this ...
... chief reliance on that hardy race , the mountaineers of Afghanistan . His recent attempt and failure in the in- vasion of the valley of Kashmir have attached a celebrity to his character it could not have otherwise obtained . In this ...
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... chief persons of the town waited on him at a confer- ence appointed in consequence , they were basely seized by his soldiers ; some were clandestinely put to death , and others openly disgraced and led about the city in an ignominious ...
... chief persons of the town waited on him at a confer- ence appointed in consequence , they were basely seized by his soldiers ; some were clandestinely put to death , and others openly disgraced and led about the city in an ignominious ...
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Page 316 - ... asked him why he did not worship the God of heaven? The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other God ; at which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. "When the old man was gone, God called to him, and asked him where the stranger was ; he replied, ' I thrust him away because he did not worship thee...
Page 434 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Page 406 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Page 550 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Page 235 - ... what that was: he accordingly pronounced aloud the name of the king, upon which Finow snatched the paper from his hand, and, with astonishment, looked at it, turned it round, and examined it in all directions: at length he exclaimed, "This is neither like myself nor any body else! where are my legs? how do you know it to be I?
Page 281 - I am to acquaint you, that his royal highness the prince regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his majesty, to approve and confirm the finding -and sentence of the court.
Page 279 - Gentlemen of the House of Commons, I have directed the estimates of the current year to be laid before you. They have been formed upon a full consideration of all the present...
Page 316 - God answered him, I have suffered him these hundred years, although he dishonoured me; and couldst not thou endure him one night, when he gave thee no trouble ? Upon this, saith the story, Abraham fetched him back again, and gave him hospitable entertainment and wise instruction." Go thou, and do likewise, and thy charity will be rewarded by the God of Abraham.
Page 234 - ... universal trembling, the perspiration breaks out on his forehead, and his lips turning black are convulsed; at length tears start in floods from his eyes, his breast heaves with great emotion, and his utterance is choked. These symptoms gradually subside. Before this paroxysm comes on, and after it is over, he often eats as much as four hungry men under other circumstances could devour.
Page 275 - A View of the Agricultural, Commercial, and Financial Interests of Ceylon. With an Appendix ; containing some of the principal Laws and Usages of the Candians ; Port and Custom-house Regulations ; Tables of Exports and Imports, Public Revenue and Expenditure, &c.