Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia, Volume 15Wm. H. Allen & Company, 1823 - Asia |
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Page 141 - Yet awhile ye can last; Joys of my age, In true wisdom delight; Eyes of my age, Be religion your light; Thoughts of my age, Dread ye not the cold sod; Hopes of my age, Be ye fixed on your God.
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Page 471 - Regent's pleasure thereon, shall be entered in the general order book, and read at the head of every regiment in his Majesty's service. " By command of his royal highness the commander in chief. " H. CALVEBT, adjutant general.
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Page 383 - Bank, or of the other great corporate body, but from that panic to which his right honourable friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the First Lord of the Treasury alluded in the passage which had been referred to, as having existed, and as being removed.
Page 336 - An Account of some recent Discoveries in Hieroglyphical Literature and Egyptian Antiquities ; including the author's original Alphabet as extended by Mr. Champollion; with a Translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian Manuscripts.
Page 248 - a wife, a son, and a slave, are declared by law to have in general no wealth exclusively their own. The wealth which they may earn is regularly acquired for the man to whom tiny belong.
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Page 263 - Upon which Charges the Court came to the following decision. Finding and Sentence.