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tivation of the arts ; of whom scanty and uncertain notices have alone reached us through the Greek historians , and their inci- dental connexion with sacred writ : nations whose records and traditions were as much hidden by distance of ...
tivation of the arts ; of whom scanty and uncertain notices have alone reached us through the Greek historians , and their inci- dental connexion with sacred writ : nations whose records and traditions were as much hidden by distance of ...
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... reached these only a little too late to preserve them from a destruction to which the greater part were condemned , from a want of proper care . Some few fragments were however pre- served , and have proved of inestimable value . It is ...
... reached these only a little too late to preserve them from a destruction to which the greater part were condemned , from a want of proper care . Some few fragments were however pre- served , and have proved of inestimable value . It is ...
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... reached by the succeeding dynasty . Innumerable inscriptions celebrate the glory of AMENOPHTEPH , the successor of the last of this 17th Dynasty , as equal to a god , By an error in copying our authority in a former paper , it is called ...
... reached by the succeeding dynasty . Innumerable inscriptions celebrate the glory of AMENOPHTEPH , the successor of the last of this 17th Dynasty , as equal to a god , By an error in copying our authority in a former paper , it is called ...
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... reached us , of the building of the la- byrinth , throws great light upon the state of the government of Egypt , during the reign of Mendes and his successors . It was divided into as many separate compartments , as there were Nomes in ...
... reached us , of the building of the la- byrinth , throws great light upon the state of the government of Egypt , during the reign of Mendes and his successors . It was divided into as many separate compartments , as there were Nomes in ...
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ancient and established laws . The fine arts were cultivated , and had reached their highest development , fifteen centuries before the Christian era ; but were never guided by the taste that in- spired the Grecian artists , or the ...
ancient and established laws . The fine arts were cultivated , and had reached their highest development , fifteen centuries before the Christian era ; but were never guided by the taste that in- spired the Grecian artists , or the ...
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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.