The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australia, Volumen14Parbury, Allen, and Company, 1822 |
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... manners and customs of their inha- bitants . His mind possessed more of an active than of a speculative turn , and he delighted much more in ac- quiring knowledge , from personal ob- servation and intercourse with the natives , than ...
... manners and customs of their inha- bitants . His mind possessed more of an active than of a speculative turn , and he delighted much more in ac- quiring knowledge , from personal ob- servation and intercourse with the natives , than ...
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... manner which may be serviceable to Mr. Kendall , in enabling him to view the case under other aspects , in his future commu- nications . For my own part , being referred to so pointedly by Mr. Ken- dall , I have only to remark , without ...
... manner which may be serviceable to Mr. Kendall , in enabling him to view the case under other aspects , in his future commu- nications . For my own part , being referred to so pointedly by Mr. Ken- dall , I have only to remark , without ...
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... manner in which the great market of this metropolis is supplied with food for its immense population . The system seems so perfectly contrived to guard against scarcity and redundancy , that it might be imagined to have cost the Govern ...
... manner in which the great market of this metropolis is supplied with food for its immense population . The system seems so perfectly contrived to guard against scarcity and redundancy , that it might be imagined to have cost the Govern ...
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... manner in the speech of Mr. Wallace before the Committee of the Commons on the Navigation Laws , 25th June 1821 ; and in so far as the new laws will free our commercial code from its present intricacy , and relieve trade from divers ...
... manner in the speech of Mr. Wallace before the Committee of the Commons on the Navigation Laws , 25th June 1821 ; and in so far as the new laws will free our commercial code from its present intricacy , and relieve trade from divers ...
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... manners and characters of the people under review , and contrast them with their present condition . The reproach of ... manner I could . " In relating his several voyages by sea , one circumstance is remarkable , namely , the lawless ...
... manners and characters of the people under review , and contrast them with their present condition . The reproach of ... manner I could . " In relating his several voyages by sea , one circumstance is remarkable , namely , the lawless ...
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Página 583 - Then came sudden alarms, hurryings to and fro, trepidations of innumerable fugitives — I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad, darkness and lights, tempest and human faces, and at last, with the sense that all was lost, female forms, and the features that were worth all the world to me, and but a moment allowed — and clasped hands, and heart-breaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells!
Página 583 - ... me with matter for my dreams. Often I used to see, after painting upon the blank darkness, a sort of rehearsal whilst waking, a crowd of ladies, and perhaps a festival, and dances. And I heard it said, or I said to myself, " These are English ladies from the unhappy times of Charles I. These are the wives and...
Página 580 - Then it was, at this crisis of my fate, that my poor orphan companion, who had herself met with little but injuries in this world, stretched out a saving hand to me.
Página 583 - ... daughters of those who met in peace, and sat at the same tables, and were allied by marriage or by blood; and yet, after a certain day in August, 1642, never smiled upon each other again, nor met but in the field of battle; and at Marston Moor, at Newbury, or at Naseby, cut asunder all ties of love by the cruel sabre, and washed away in blood the memory of ancient friendship.
Página 144 - I have had the honour to receive and to lay before the Court of Directors of the East India Company your letter dated...
Página 583 - ... issue. I, as is usual in dreams (where, of necessity, we make ourselves central to every movement), had the power, and yet, had not the power to decide it. I had the power, if I could raise myself, to will it; and yet again had not the power; for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon me, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt. 'Deeper than ever plummet sounded,
Página 582 - Romanus; especially when the consul is introduced in his military character. I mean to say, that the words king — sultan — regent, &c. or any other titles of those who embody in their own persons the collective majesty of a great people, had less power over my reverential feelings.
Página 350 - Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart : and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor sworn to deceive his neighbour.
Página 236 - For a' that, and a* that: His riband, star, and a' that, The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can make a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith, he maunna fa' that! For a
Página 580 - To this agitation the deep peace of the morning presented an affecting contrast, and in some degree a medicine. The silence was more profound than that of midnight, and to me the silence of a summer morning is more touching than all other silence, because, the light being broad and strong, as that of noonday at other seasons of the year, it seems to differ from perfect day chiefly because man is not yet abroad; and thus, the peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of God seems to be secure...