The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 21John George Cochrane 1838 |
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... known by both names , and by other designations in the south of India , appear to be of remote origin . Herodotus , in his Polymnia , mentions as a part of the army with which Xerxes invaded Greece , a pastoral people of Persian descent ...
... known by both names , and by other designations in the south of India , appear to be of remote origin . Herodotus , in his Polymnia , mentions as a part of the army with which Xerxes invaded Greece , a pastoral people of Persian descent ...
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... known . " " -p . 11 . The people mentioned both by Herodotus and Thevenot must have been very different from the present race of Thugs , and more resembling the Guachos with their lassos in South America , whom Captain Head so well ...
... known . " " -p . 11 . The people mentioned both by Herodotus and Thevenot must have been very different from the present race of Thugs , and more resembling the Guachos with their lassos in South America , whom Captain Head so well ...
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... known lavish expenditure , so much beyond his ostensible means , seems to indicate a dishonest means of obtaining money ; although he contrived to propagate the idea that he was supplied from heaven . One strange circumstance ...
... known lavish expenditure , so much beyond his ostensible means , seems to indicate a dishonest means of obtaining money ; although he contrived to propagate the idea that he was supplied from heaven . One strange circumstance ...
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... known to the rest of the residents , but , as a blind , they cultivate a small portion of land , and when questioned as to their absence for months every year , pretend that they go out to service ; it being very common for some classes ...
... known to the rest of the residents , but , as a blind , they cultivate a small portion of land , and when questioned as to their absence for months every year , pretend that they go out to service ; it being very common for some classes ...
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... known to offer insult , either in act or speech , to any woman they were to murder . " They let off poor travellers sometimes , and even beautiful women . Consider- able restriction was formerly adopted as to the classes who could be ...
... known to offer insult , either in act or speech , to any woman they were to murder . " They let off poor travellers sometimes , and even beautiful women . Consider- able restriction was formerly adopted as to the classes who could be ...
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Page 426 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless...
Page 427 - O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Page 426 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 425 - He that has sail'd upon the dark blue sea Has view'd at times, I ween, a full fair sight ; When the fresh breeze is fair -as breeze may be, The white sail set, the gallant frigate tight...
Page 427 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense — the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way ? That for itself can woo the approaching fight, And turn what some deem danger to delight...
Page 127 - Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying. Thou shall not eat of it'. " "Cursed is the ground for thy sake; In sorrow shall thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
Page 427 - Let him who crawls enamour'd of decay, Cling to his couch, and sicken years away; Heave his thick breath, and shake his palsied head ; Ours — the fresh turf, and not the feverish bed.
Page 428 - How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Page 378 - I much fear that this country (however earnestly she may endeavour to avoid it) could not, in such case, avoid seeing ranked under her banners all the restless and dissatisfied of any nation with which she might come in conflict.
Page 15 - We could not get him on, and after burying the bodies, Aman and I, and a few others, sat by him while the gang went on : we were very fond of him, and tried all we could to tranquillize him, but he never recovered his senses, and before evening he died.