Oriental Herald and Colonial Review, Volumen22James Silk Buckingham J. M. Richardson, 1829 |
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... residence , to make an independent fortune sufficient to allow him to live in a country where the necessaries of life are four - fold dearer than they are in India , the probability is that the great majority even of these will continue ...
... residence , to make an independent fortune sufficient to allow him to live in a country where the necessaries of life are four - fold dearer than they are in India , the probability is that the great majority even of these will continue ...
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... residence in England ) had placed him upon a more intimate footing than is generally established between the European and Native functionaries in India . * It was at the most sultry season of the year , and while the hot winds were ...
... residence in England ) had placed him upon a more intimate footing than is generally established between the European and Native functionaries in India . * It was at the most sultry season of the year , and while the hot winds were ...
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... residence , the prospect , to me at least , was still alas ! far distant , and I had many a long and weary voyage to accomplish , before I should probably be enabled to hail my household gods , or even to snatch a moment of repose with ...
... residence , the prospect , to me at least , was still alas ! far distant , and I had many a long and weary voyage to accomplish , before I should probably be enabled to hail my household gods , or even to snatch a moment of repose with ...
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... resident here , who do not meddle with ' the drugs of death , ' it is true , but , like the Grecian Esculapius of Miniet , they were distillers of the water of life . ' I retained the impression of our last night's entertainment , with ...
... resident here , who do not meddle with ' the drugs of death , ' it is true , but , like the Grecian Esculapius of Miniet , they were distillers of the water of life . ' I retained the impression of our last night's entertainment , with ...
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... residence of the Mamlouks , during their dominion in Upper Egypt . As it was then , also , the head - quarters of female licentiousness , so it continues to enjoy that distinction to the present day . Among the entertainments of the ...
... residence of the Mamlouks , during their dominion in Upper Egypt . As it was then , also , the head - quarters of female licentiousness , so it continues to enjoy that distinction to the present day . Among the entertainments of the ...
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Página 77 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Página 264 - Now comes to rest, with her, in the same still abode. " Bursting Death's silence — could that mother speak — (Speak when the earth was heap'd upon his head) — In thrilling, but with hollow accent weak, She thus might give the welcome of the dead : — ' Here rest, my son, with me ; — the dream is fled ; — The motley mask and the great stir is o'er : Welcome to me, and to this silent bed, Where deep forgetfulness succeeds the roar Of life, and fretting passions waste the heart no more.
Página 70 - By a perpetual monopoly, all the other subjects of the State are taxed very absurdly in two different ways : first, by the high price of goods, which, in the case of a free trade, they could buy much cheaper ; and, secondly, by their total exclusion from a branch of business which it might be both convenient and profitable for many of them to carry on.
Página 431 - I know the queen's prerogative is a thing curious to be dealt withal ; yet all grievances are not comparable. I cannot utter with my tongue, or conceive with my heart, the great grievances that the town and country, for which I serve, suffereth by some of these monopolies.
Página 78 - And the ^Ethiop's heart throbs loud and high, Beneath his white symar, And the Lybian kneels, as he meets her eye. Like the flash of an Eastern star ! The gales may not be heard, Yet the silken streamers quiver, And the vessel shoots — like a bright-plumed...
Página 223 - In the years 1186, 1187 the white strangers of the west fastened a quarrel upon the Lord of the Golden Palace They landed at Rangoon, took that place and Prome, and were permitted to advance as far as Yandabo, for the King, from motives of piety and regard to life, made no preparation whatever to oppose them.
Página 162 - To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland m Parliament assembled.
Página 565 - ... existing establishments , to, encourage the diffusion of education and useful knowledge; and to advance the general prosperity and happiness of the British empire in India.
Página 401 - So it was but natural for him to get in touch with the men who directed the activities of the Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures and the Mechanic Arts, an organization dating back to the days of Alexander Hamilton, which had its headquarters in Philadelphia.
Página 78 - O'er Cleopatra's brain ! Too like her fervid clime, that bred Its self-consuming fires, — Her breast — like Indian widows — fed Its own funereal pyres ! — Not such the song her minstrels sing, — " Live, beauteous, and for ever...