Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, Volumen 3Wm. H. Allen & Company, 1817 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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... passed a long life , one hundred and sixteen lunar years , in poverty ; having travelled during thirty of them over great part of the habi- table world , six hundred and fifty years ago , as a dervise , and having spent his last sixty ...
... passed a long life , one hundred and sixteen lunar years , in poverty ; having travelled during thirty of them over great part of the habi- table world , six hundred and fifty years ago , as a dervise , and having spent his last sixty ...
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... passed this imaginary line , Neptune only then hailed us ; which is to say , that a person , ge- nerally the boatswain , habited to repre- sent Neptune , pretends to rise from the sea , and calling through a trumpet de- sires to know ...
... passed this imaginary line , Neptune only then hailed us ; which is to say , that a person , ge- nerally the boatswain , habited to repre- sent Neptune , pretends to rise from the sea , and calling through a trumpet de- sires to know ...
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... passed towards the great pagoda , in a smooth narrow road cut out of the rock , where the ground would not natu- rally allow of an even passage , I took notice of another rock , cut into the shape of a horse , which has obtained the ...
... passed towards the great pagoda , in a smooth narrow road cut out of the rock , where the ground would not natu- rally allow of an even passage , I took notice of another rock , cut into the shape of a horse , which has obtained the ...
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... passed each others boundaries , which was agreeable to the orders of Perumal at his departure . Their king- doms extended some one kathum ‡ , and some more . Some of them had 100 men , some 200 , some 300 , some 1000 , some 5000 , some ...
... passed each others boundaries , which was agreeable to the orders of Perumal at his departure . Their king- doms extended some one kathum ‡ , and some more . Some of them had 100 men , some 200 , some 300 , some 1000 , some 5000 , some ...
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... passed at Kori- kote and Ponaniwaikel . The Tanore Raja exerted himself greatly to bring about a peace between the Tamuri and the Fringis : the present Tamuri was the same who reigned when the fort at Korikote was taken from the Fringis ...
... passed at Kori- kote and Ponaniwaikel . The Tanore Raja exerted himself greatly to bring about a peace between the Tamuri and the Fringis : the present Tamuri was the same who reigned when the fort at Korikote was taken from the Fringis ...
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Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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?
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Página 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.
Página 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.
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