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Page 134
... Gun- duch from Nepaul , and the Dewah from , I believe , the neighbourhood of Almo- rah : each of the three is larger , and of longer course than the Thames or Se- vern . What an idea does this give us of the scale on which Nature works ...
... Gun- duch from Nepaul , and the Dewah from , I believe , the neighbourhood of Almo- rah : each of the three is larger , and of longer course than the Thames or Se- vern . What an idea does this give us of the scale on which Nature works ...
Page 141
... gun , a double - barrelled one , loaded with ball and shot , carried close to him , and two men with matchlocks who seemed his usual attendants . By his advice I had my pistols , and he also lent me a double - barrelled gun , saying ...
... gun , a double - barrelled one , loaded with ball and shot , carried close to him , and two men with matchlocks who seemed his usual attendants . By his advice I had my pistols , and he also lent me a double - barrelled gun , saying ...
Page 143
... gun for the same purpose . We set out a little after three on our elephants , with a servant behind each howdah ... guns ranged beside him , ready for action . Mr. Boulderson had also a formidable apparatus of muskets and fowl- ing ...
... gun for the same purpose . We set out a little after three on our elephants , with a servant behind each howdah ... guns ranged beside him , ready for action . Mr. Boulderson had also a formidable apparatus of muskets and fowl- ing ...
Page 156
... guns , and different pieces of cabinet - work brought down to my boat for sale , which in outward form ( for I know no further , ) nobody but perhaps Mr. could detect to be of Hindoo origin ; and at Delhi , in the shop of a wealthy ...
... guns , and different pieces of cabinet - work brought down to my boat for sale , which in outward form ( for I know no further , ) nobody but perhaps Mr. could detect to be of Hindoo origin ; and at Delhi , in the shop of a wealthy ...
Page 165
... gun his career with industry . In after life , he used to say of him- self , that it was his object to be an instructer , not an author . And we find the testimony of one of his pupils bears , that at times it was with difficulty he ...
... gun his career with industry . In after life , he used to say of him- self , that it was his object to be an instructer , not an author . And we find the testimony of one of his pupils bears , that at times it was with difficulty he ...
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Page 282 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 282 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid ; star of the east, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 147 - In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell; Earthly these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth -, But love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth; from heaven it came, to heaven...
Page 397 - Marshal of the district into which they are brought ; and to appoint a proper person or persons, residing upon the coast of Africa, as agent or agents for receiving the negroes, mulattoes, or persons of colour, delivered from on board vessels seized in the prosecution of the Slave Trade by commanders of The United States
Page 284 - Thou art gone to the grave ; but we will not deplore thee; Whose God was thy ransom, thy guardian, and guide : He gave thee, he took thee, and he will restore thee ; And death has no sting, for the Saviour hasoied.
Page 396 - The object, to which its attention is to be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color residing in our country in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient.
Page 196 - Shakspearc and Milton, like gods in the fight, Have put their whole drama and epic to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope. Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, \ and will beat forty more...
Page 274 - Committee, that it is the duty of this country to promote the interest and happiness of the native inhabitants of the British dominions in India, and thai such measures ought to be adopted, as may tend to the introduction among them of useful knowledge, and of religious and moral improvement.
Page 282 - Cold on his cradle the dew-drops are shining, Low lies his head with the beasts of the stall ; Angels adore him in slumber reclining, Maker and Monarch and Saviour of all.