Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia, Volume 11Wm. H. Allen & Company, 1821 - Asia |
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Page 92 - Spirit, by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Page 18 - And it shall be upon Aaron to minister : and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
Page 138 - For scandalous and infamous conduct, unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman, in having publicly on the 12th inst.
Page 482 - Court by the advocate general, for a rule to shew cause why a criminal information should not be filed against Mr. Buckingham, the editor of the Calcutta Journal, for the publication of " a false, scandalous, and malicious libel, of and concerning the government of this country," in his paper of the Gth instant, in a letter on " Merit and Interest," signed
Page 15 - He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
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Page 183 - ... an empty name. Let it still be the boast of Britain to write her name in characters of light ; let her not be remembered as the tempest whose course was desolation, but as the gale of spring reviving the slumbering seeds of mind, and calling- them to life from the winter of ignorance and oppression.
Page 124 - This important paper explicitly states that the unicorn, so long considered as a fabulous animal, actually exists at this moment in the interior of Thibet, where it is well known to the inhabitants.
Page 15 - Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
Page 463 - Parts ; — and to report the same, with their Observations thereupon, from time to time, to the House ; — Have, pursuant to the...