Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, Band 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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... officers ; the execution of the orders from Europe respecting the Dutch settlements , viz . the steps previous to the attack of Trincomalee ; the Candian em- bassy ; and the Eastern expedition . Upon these points , I do not as- sume ...
... officers ; the execution of the orders from Europe respecting the Dutch settlements , viz . the steps previous to the attack of Trincomalee ; the Candian em- bassy ; and the Eastern expedition . Upon these points , I do not as- sume ...
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... officers , and a number of negro guards to keep off the mob . He appeared to be about twenty - five years old , six feet high , and of a handsome person , but evi- dently half drunk with araki , a spirit they distil from dates . He ...
... officers , and a number of negro guards to keep off the mob . He appeared to be about twenty - five years old , six feet high , and of a handsome person , but evi- dently half drunk with araki , a spirit they distil from dates . He ...
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... officers of the Board of Health , and one of them coming alongside our vessel , presented the captain with a Bible ... officer produced a number of queries , to which 1817.1 51 Legh's Narrative of a Journey in Egypt .
... officers of the Board of Health , and one of them coming alongside our vessel , presented the captain with a Bible ... officer produced a number of queries , to which 1817.1 51 Legh's Narrative of a Journey in Egypt .
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... officer produced a number of queries , to which the captain of our ves- sel was required to give written answers , and ... officers engaged in the expedition - and related certain political negociations which the prosperous state of the ...
... officer produced a number of queries , to which the captain of our ves- sel was required to give written answers , and ... officers engaged in the expedition - and related certain political negociations which the prosperous state of the ...
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... officers , aud such of the privates as were recommended for their particular gallantry . The humiliation and discomfi- ture ( observed the council ) of a proud and high - minded people , like the Goor- kahs , would doubtless , for a ...
... officers , aud such of the privates as were recommended for their particular gallantry . The humiliation and discomfi- ture ( observed the council ) of a proud and high - minded people , like the Goor- kahs , would doubtless , for a ...
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Seite 316 - ... asked him why he did not worship the God of heaven? The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other God ; at which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. "When the old man was gone, God called to him, and asked him where the stranger was ; he replied, ' I thrust him away because he did not worship thee...
Seite 434 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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?
Seite 281 - I am to acquaint you, that his royal highness the prince regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his majesty, to approve and confirm the finding -and sentence of the court.
Seite 279 - Gentlemen of the House of Commons, I have directed the estimates of the current year to be laid before you. They have been formed upon a full consideration of all the present...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 275 - A View of the Agricultural, Commercial, and Financial Interests of Ceylon. With an Appendix ; containing some of the principal Laws and Usages of the Candians ; Port and Custom-house Regulations ; Tables of Exports and Imports, Public Revenue and Expenditure, &c.