Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 11Cambridge University Press for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1879 - Asia Most years contain the Proceedings and Annual report of the society. |
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Page 25 - Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language ; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.
Page 334 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Page 265 - Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying^ Where is he that is born King of the Jews ? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Page 334 - That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn ; And wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees...
Page 24 - On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded...
Page 24 - Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces: ) that in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom , which was in Shushan the palace, in the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces...
Page xxvi - Edward Thomas, FRS— Notice of the Scholars who have Contributed to the Extension of our Knowledge of the Languages of British India during the last Thirty Years. By Robert N. Cust, Hon. Librarian RAS- AncientArabie Poetry: its Genuineness and Authenticity. By Sir William Muir, KCSI, LL.D. — Note on Manrique's Mission and the Catholics in the time of Shah Jahan.
Page xlviii - HH the Nizam of Haidarabad, being the result of the Third Season's Operations of the Archaeological Survey of Western India. 1875-1876. By JAMES BURGESS, FRGS, MRAS, Membre de la Societe Asiatique, &c., Archaeological Surveyor and Reporter to Government, Western India.
Page 34 - On failure of issue by the husband, if he be ' of the servile class, the desired offspring may be ' procreated, either by his brother or some other * sapinda, on the wife, who has been duly au1 thorized : 60.
Page 34 - The seizure of a maiden by force from her house, while she weeps and calls for assistance, after her kinsmen and friends have been slain in battle, or wounded and their houses broken open, is the marriage styled Racshasa.