The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volumen 21Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1838 |
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... considered as an original derivation , any more than the Tatar of our last Number ( p . 410 ) . These points will be explained on a future occasion , when it will be shown that much of the imputed Slang of the Thugs is , in reality ...
... considered as an original derivation , any more than the Tatar of our last Number ( p . 410 ) . These points will be explained on a future occasion , when it will be shown that much of the imputed Slang of the Thugs is , in reality ...
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... considered strict in their ob- servances , and staunch to their oath of secrecy . " - p . 117 . The Mooteeas , who reside chiefly about Rungpoor , Dinapoor , and Purnea , derive their name from their custom of giving their leaders a ...
... considered strict in their ob- servances , and staunch to their oath of secrecy . " - p . 117 . The Mooteeas , who reside chiefly about Rungpoor , Dinapoor , and Purnea , derive their name from their custom of giving their leaders a ...
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... considered conve- nient . In this case , one or more of the gang are sent on over- night to select a fit spot for the murder , and often to dig the graves beforehand . The travellers are then induced to set off before daybreak , either ...
... considered conve- nient . In this case , one or more of the gang are sent on over- night to select a fit spot for the murder , and often to dig the graves beforehand . The travellers are then induced to set off before daybreak , either ...
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... considered one of the most respectable men of the place . A list of the most noto- rious Thugs in that part was sent to Captain Reynolds , with directions to arrest them , and approvers to point them out : " On hearing that the Huree ...
... considered one of the most respectable men of the place . A list of the most noto- rious Thugs in that part was sent to Captain Reynolds , with directions to arrest them , and approvers to point them out : " On hearing that the Huree ...
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... considered to threaten evil by some , is thought to promise good by others ; but , on such occasions , they all follow the leader who opens the expedition , or leads the greatest number of Thugs associated together in any expedition ...
... considered to threaten evil by some , is thought to promise good by others ; but , on such occasions , they all follow the leader who opens the expedition , or leads the greatest number of Thugs associated together in any expedition ...
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Página 426 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Página 427 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Página 427 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed— in breeze, or gale, or storm — Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, aloue.
Página 427 - Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! These are our realms, no limits to their sway Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change.
Página 428 - She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Página 427 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense - the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way?
Página 378 - I much fear that this country (however earnestly she may endeavour to avoid it) could not, in such case, avoid seeing ranked under her banners all the restless and dissatisfied of any nation with which she might come in conflict.
Página 15 - We could not get him on, and after burying the bodies, Aman and I, and a few others, sat by him while the gang went on : we were very fond of him, and tried all we could to tranquillize him, but he never recovered his senses, and before evening he died.
Página 12 - A Thug considers the persons murdered precisely in the light of victims offered up to the goddess; and he remembers them as a priest of Jupiter remembered the oxen, and a priest of Saturn the children sacrificed upon their altars. He meditates his murders without any misgivings ; he commits them without any emotions of pity; and he remembers them without any feelings of remorse.
Página 381 - Madrid have been rejected, leaves little hope of preserving peace. I have ordered the recall of my minister: one hundred thousand Frenchmen, commanded by a prince of my family, — by him whom my heart delights to call my son, — are ready to march, invoking the God of St. Louis, for the sake of preserving the throne of Spain to a descendant of Henry IV. — of saving that fine kingdom from its ruin, and of reconciling it with Europe.