The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and AustraliaParbury, Allen, and Company, 1836 |
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15. oldal
... never appear to have had any determined pitch by which their instruments were regulated ; whence it is immaterial which note is designated by any given letter . Writers say that the various sounds of the gamut were originally derived ...
... never appear to have had any determined pitch by which their instruments were regulated ; whence it is immaterial which note is designated by any given letter . Writers say that the various sounds of the gamut were originally derived ...
19. oldal
... of their houses during bad weather , and they are never obliged to remain within on account of the heat : an advantage which a residence of a single season in Calcutta will teach any European to appreciate Chirra Punji . 19.
... of their houses during bad weather , and they are never obliged to remain within on account of the heat : an advantage which a residence of a single season in Calcutta will teach any European to appreciate Chirra Punji . 19.
21. oldal
... never been known , although its ravages have frequently extended to the villages at their feet : the bilious , remittent , or jungle fever of Bengal is also unknown ; and I be- lieve no instance has occurred of a fatal case of dysentery ...
... never been known , although its ravages have frequently extended to the villages at their feet : the bilious , remittent , or jungle fever of Bengal is also unknown ; and I be- lieve no instance has occurred of a fatal case of dysentery ...
26. oldal
... Never more to glow with love , never more to weep . Fall on ! fall on ! thou yellow leaf , upon this path of sorrow , Hide from a mother's eyes the spot where her son will sleep to - morrow ! " He ceased - and lo ! his lingering step ...
... Never more to glow with love , never more to weep . Fall on ! fall on ! thou yellow leaf , upon this path of sorrow , Hide from a mother's eyes the spot where her son will sleep to - morrow ! " He ceased - and lo ! his lingering step ...
43. oldal
... never want followers . " For the first time since it began to exist , the Supreme Court has risen to the highest favour with the inhabitants of Calcutta , and they are now apprehensive of the smallest abridgment of those powers , which ...
... never want followers . " For the first time since it began to exist , the Supreme Court has risen to the highest favour with the inhabitants of Calcutta , and they are now apprehensive of the smallest abridgment of those powers , which ...
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127. oldal - If an alien could acquire a permanent property in lands, he must owe an allegiance, equally permanent with that property, to the king of England; which would probably be inconsistent with that which he owes to his own natural liege lord : besides that thereby the nation might in time be subject to foreign influence, and feel many other inconveniences.
205. oldal - What then! notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached ; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
53. oldal - may be considered as the mouth of the Thlew-ee-choh, which after a violent and tortuous course of 530 geographical miles, running through an iron-ribbed country, without a single tree on the whole line of its banks...
307. oldal - The language of our fathers. Here he dwelt For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He sang; of love, or knighthood, or the wiles Of homely life; through each estate and age, The fashions and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying.
309. oldal - She sings thy tears asleep, and dips Her kisses in thy weeping eye; She spreads the red leaves of thy lips, That in their buds yet blushing lie. She 'gainst those mother-diamonds tries The points of her young eagle's eyes. Welcome — though not to those gay flies, Gilded i...
224. oldal - In matters of politics, they are all radicals, and are followers of Benthamite principles. The very word Tory is a sort of ignominy among them. Reformation, they say, ought to be effected in every age and country; and as to what respects the state of India, her condition ought surely to be reformed. They think that this country is labouring under a number of political evils, which cry aloud for a speedy removal.
49. oldal - Majesty and their country for ever. Very different was the result, when a similar but less violent gale sent my little vessel to the bottom of this river in 1831, for I had not then the misery of deploring the loss of a single life, and my little schooner was afloat and continuing the descent in less than twelve hours ; whereas all our efforts as yet have failed even to find the remains of the vessel ; not a ripple, or the slightest trace of the unfortunate Tigris...
48. oldal - The wind then suddenly veered round, drove her bow off, and thus rendered it quite impossible to secure the vessel to the bank, along which she was blown rapidly by the heavy gusts, her head falling off into the stream as she passed close by the Euphrates, which vessel had been backed opportunely to avoid the concussion.
49. oldal - ... the operation of sinking itself did not consume more than three ; indeed the gale was so very violent, that I doubt whether the most powerful vessel, such as a frigate, could have resisted it, unless she were already secured to the bank; and for this there was, in our case, little or no time, as it was barely possible, in the position of our consort, to make fast and save the vessel. " I had little, or rather no hope, that the Euphrates could have escaped, but the intrepid skill of Lieutenant...
84. oldal - That all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign princes, do of right belong to the state...