Publications, Issue 34Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1833 - 224 pages |
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Page 9
... continual youth . The manner in which they bring up their children , and contract marriage , is very singular . As the women there are not subject to menses nor the pains of labour , when their time arrives , they are delivered without ...
... continual youth . The manner in which they bring up their children , and contract marriage , is very singular . As the women there are not subject to menses nor the pains of labour , when their time arrives , they are delivered without ...
Page 48
... continual war . Before his death he declared his will to his nobles , that his seven sons should successively occupy the throne after his decease ; a most fatal disposition , as it was the cause of the many troubles and civil wars that ...
... continual war . Before his death he declared his will to his nobles , that his seven sons should successively occupy the throne after his decease ; a most fatal disposition , as it was the cause of the many troubles and civil wars that ...
Page 79
... continual wars with the rebel princes of the Sciam , and particularly with the one of Zemmè , which have since occupied the Burmese arms , together with the fatigues incident to them , and the diseases arising , partly from unwholesome ...
... continual wars with the rebel princes of the Sciam , and particularly with the one of Zemmè , which have since occupied the Burmese arms , together with the fatigues incident to them , and the diseases arising , partly from unwholesome ...
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