The American Quarterly Review, Volume 4Carey, Lea & Carey, 1828 |
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Page 35
... native race appear to have risen in the remote parts of the coun- try , and speedily to have recovered Thebes , in which a line of warlike princes reigned cotemporaneously with the Shepherd kings at Memphis , and was engaged in constant ...
... native race appear to have risen in the remote parts of the coun- try , and speedily to have recovered Thebes , in which a line of warlike princes reigned cotemporaneously with the Shepherd kings at Memphis , and was engaged in constant ...
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... native plants are few in number ; but this fertile land , whose mild temperature varies by insensible degrees , from the sea to the confines of Nubia , may be considered as one vast garden , fitted to receive the richest vegetable ...
... native plants are few in number ; but this fertile land , whose mild temperature varies by insensible degrees , from the sea to the confines of Nubia , may be considered as one vast garden , fitted to receive the richest vegetable ...
Page 55
... native Patois from the chaste and polished dialect of the Court . The Revolu- tion prostrated all these institutions . Out of their ruins , however , under the guidance of the master genius of the age , arose a sys- tem of laws ...
... native Patois from the chaste and polished dialect of the Court . The Revolu- tion prostrated all these institutions . Out of their ruins , however , under the guidance of the master genius of the age , arose a sys- tem of laws ...
Page 80
... native growth , would be consi- dered as still in force ; and we believe it has been already decid- ed , that the title of seizure and sale , contained in the old code , and not expressly re - enacted in the new , is yet in operation ...
... native growth , would be consi- dered as still in force ; and we believe it has been already decid- ed , that the title of seizure and sale , contained in the old code , and not expressly re - enacted in the new , is yet in operation ...
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... native growth , would be consi- dered as still in force ; and we believe it has been already decid- ed , that the title of seizure and sale , contained in the old code , and not expressly re - enacted in the new , is yet in operation ...
... native growth , would be consi- dered as still in force ; and we believe it has been already decid- ed , that the title of seizure and sale , contained in the old code , and not expressly re - enacted in the new , is yet in operation ...
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Page 274 - 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 ! FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY.
Page 274 - 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 - They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. 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 returneth...
Page 273 - But when of morn and eve the star beholds me on my knee, I feel, though thou art distant far, thy prayers ascend for me. Then on ! then on ! where duty leads, my course be onward still.
Page 266 - 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 125 - Fakirs' houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas, biyals, and other discordant instruments ; while religious mendicants of every Hindoo sect, offering every conceivable deformity, which chalk, cow-dung, disease, matted locks, distorted limbs and disgusting and hideous attitudes of penance can show, literally line the principal streets on both sides.
Page 125 - The number of temples is very great, mostly small and stuck like shrines in the angles of the streets, and under the shadow of the lofty houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful, and...
Page 147 - I have taken some pains to inform myself, really appears to me the worst, both in the degrading notions which it gives of the Deity ; in the endless round of its burdensome ceremonies, which occupy the time and distract the thoughts, without either instructing or interesting its votaries ; in the filthy acts of uncleanness and cruelty not only permitted but enjoined, and inseparably interwoven with those ceremonies...
Page 146 - When a tiger springs on an elephant, the latter is generally able to shake him off under his feet, and then woe be to him. The elephant either kneels on him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty paces. The elephants, however, are often dreadfully torn ; and a large old tiger sometimes clings too fast to be thus dealt with.