Calcutta Review, Volume 29University of Calcutta., 1857 |
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... four of our English poets as could be gathered from their writings ; but yet it is not on these excellencies in detail that their fame rests , so much as on the great genius exhibited in the con- ception of their poems . The two ...
... four of our English poets as could be gathered from their writings ; but yet it is not on these excellencies in detail that their fame rests , so much as on the great genius exhibited in the con- ception of their poems . The two ...
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... four hundred folio pages , examining every detail and subject , from Transporta- tion to Tobacco , and emanating from such men as Sir Edward Ryan , Mr. Macaulay , Mr. Cameron , and Mr. Grant , this valuable State Paper is well deserving ...
... four hundred folio pages , examining every detail and subject , from Transporta- tion to Tobacco , and emanating from such men as Sir Edward Ryan , Mr. Macaulay , Mr. Cameron , and Mr. Grant , this valuable State Paper is well deserving ...
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... four Jails indicated below , stand at the head of the list in this respect , shewing against each name , the yearly earning of a single prisoner : — Hooghly , Earnings per prisoner ............ Rs . Alipore , Jessore , Nuddea , ditto ...
... four Jails indicated below , stand at the head of the list in this respect , shewing against each name , the yearly earning of a single prisoner : — Hooghly , Earnings per prisoner ............ Rs . Alipore , Jessore , Nuddea , ditto ...
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... four establishments already instanced , as shewing the highest returns in their manufacturing products , will be found as regard their cost and earnings , to stand thus : — Alipore Hooghly Jessore • Nuddeah .... For least cost . 2 3 For ...
... four establishments already instanced , as shewing the highest returns in their manufacturing products , will be found as regard their cost and earnings , to stand thus : — Alipore Hooghly Jessore • Nuddeah .... For least cost . 2 3 For ...
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... four results to be kept in view , viz : -the proper amount of punishment to be inflicted on each prisoner for the offence committed by him : -the example to be made with a view of deterring from future . offences in others : -the ...
... four results to be kept in view , viz : -the proper amount of punishment to be inflicted on each prisoner for the offence committed by him : -the example to be made with a view of deterring from future . offences in others : -the ...
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Page 94 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him, — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 93 - For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked 4 For there are no bands in their death : but their strength is firm.
Page 156 - How best to help the slender store, How mend the dwellings, of the poor; How gain in life, as life advances, Valour and charity more and more.
Page 228 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
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Page 77 - Ceremonies;' together with plates of the system of torture and burnings at the Auto da Fe. I added that it was now generally believed in Europe, that these enormities no longer existed, and that the Inquisition itself had been totally suppressed; but that I was concerned to find that this was not the case. He now began a grave narration to...
Page 267 - Quenched is his lamp of varied lore That loved the light of song to pour ; A distant and a deadly shore Has LEYDEN'S cold remains ! XII.
Page 190 - All surgeons at the end of last century and the beginning of the present...
Page 69 - They constitute the surface level, and below them are deeps on deeps of depravity, so shocking and horrible that their character cannot even be hinted. There are some dark shadows in human nature which we naturally shrink from penetrating, and I made no attempt to collect information of this kind ; but there...
Page 387 - He now repeats that declaration, and he emphatically proclaims that the government of India entertains no desire to interfere with their religion or caste, and that nothing has been, or will be done by the government to affect the free exercise of the observances of religion or caste by every class of the people. The government of India...