The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 3The Branch, 1894 - Sri Lanka |
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Alwis amongst the Singhalese ancient animal antennæ apex apice appear Asiatic Society Badulla Batticaloa Bengal body Buddha Buddhist C. P. Layard called Capper Cassia Ceylon chief Cinnamon Colombo Colonial colour Convicted Coomarasamy Court coxæ cultivated Déva District DORIS Dorsal tentacles Eliya elytra European fibre flower former fruit genus Government headmen Hindu inch long India indigenous Indra insect Island Jaffna joint Kandian Kandy King labrum land latter leviter lotus Mahawansa mantle Mára maxill moon Nágaséna native Nuwara Eliya observed obtained offences Ondaatje paddy Páli palpi paper passage peculiar pedibus person plant present priest produced Ratnapura reference regard remarks road ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY Sanscrit Secretary shew Singhalese Society's Journal soul species specimens spots Stark subtus Tamil tank tarsi term testaceis thorax tibiæ tion translated tree Turnour Vishnu whilst word
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Page 332 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow : and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Page 318 - Reign thou over us. But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees ? And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
Page 339 - And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
Page 339 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: And it shall be to the Lord for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Page 330 - ... also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets...
Page 319 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 340 - And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage : for they knew them not.
Page 342 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith : these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Page 318 - And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more.
Page 328 - The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.