The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volum 6Wm. H. Allen & Company, 1818 |
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... Lord Hastings , and the plan of the campaign laid down by him was admirably calculated to accomplish this purpose . His first object was to penetrate into the mountains ; and with this view , he divided his army into four columns that ...
... Lord Hastings , and the plan of the campaign laid down by him was admirably calculated to accomplish this purpose . His first object was to penetrate into the mountains ; and with this view , he divided his army into four columns that ...
Pàgina 28
... Lord Hastings was enabled to keep the Mahrattas in awe , and to prevent any interruptions on their part to the opera- tions against Nepaul . There is the strong- est evidence that , previously to the brea- king out of the war , the ...
... Lord Hastings was enabled to keep the Mahrattas in awe , and to prevent any interruptions on their part to the opera- tions against Nepaul . There is the strong- est evidence that , previously to the brea- king out of the war , the ...
Pàgina 29
... Lord Has- tings was left at full leisure to carry on the war in Nepaul . Had hostilities with that power been delayed by Lord Hastings , it is highly probable that we shonld have had to oppose the Mahrattas as well as the Nepaulese ...
... Lord Has- tings was left at full leisure to carry on the war in Nepaul . Had hostilities with that power been delayed by Lord Hastings , it is highly probable that we shonld have had to oppose the Mahrattas as well as the Nepaulese ...
Pàgina 30
... Lord Hastings , as well as upon the steady persevering cou- rage of the officers and men employed under his direction . In India even the Nepaul war was a subject which ap- pears to have been very little understood , and its importauce ...
... Lord Hastings , as well as upon the steady persevering cou- rage of the officers and men employed under his direction . In India even the Nepaul war was a subject which ap- pears to have been very little understood , and its importauce ...
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... Lord Hastings resumed the go- vernment in Bengal ; nor can there be a more striking indication of such public opinion , than the improved state of our Indian finances and credit . At no pe- riod was money more abundant in the Calcutta ...
... Lord Hastings resumed the go- vernment in Bengal ; nor can there be a more striking indication of such public opinion , than the improved state of our Indian finances and credit . At no pe- riod was money more abundant in the Calcutta ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 453 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Pàgina 379 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Pàgina 189 - Sir, — I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords...
Pàgina 178 - Grammar. 4to. £2 2s. Morrison's View of China, for Philological purposes ; containing a Sketch of Chinese Chronology, Geography, Government, "Religion and Customs, designed for those who study the Chinese language. 4to. 6s.
Pàgina 454 - The gentleman of the house told me, if I delighted in flowers it would be worth my while ; for that he believed he could show me such a blow of tulips as was not to be matched in the whole country. I accepted the offer, and immediately found that they had been talking in terms of gardening, and that the kings and generals they had mentioned were only so many tulips, to which the gardeners, according to their usual custom, had given such high titles and appellations of honour. I was very much...
Pàgina 453 - I was thinking of the foregoing beautiful simile in Milton, and applying it to myself, when I observed to the windward of me a black cloud falling to the earth in long trails of rain, which made me betake myself for shelter to a house I saw at a little distance from the place where I was walking.
Pàgina 454 - I was wondering to myself from whence they had received this odd intelligence : especially When I heard them mention the names of several other great generals, as the prince of Hesse and the king of Sweden, who, they said, were both running away. To which they added, what...
Pàgina 489 - ... labour, I discovered an upper forced entrance, communicating with the outside from above, and which had evidently been cut by some one who was in search of the true passage. Having cleared this passage, I perceived another opening below, which apparently ran towards the centre of the pyramid. In a few hours I was able to enter this passage, and found it to be a continuation of the lower forced passage, which runs horizontally towards the centre of the pyramid, nearly all choked up with stones...
Pàgina 462 - A few years ago he returned to England, and on the renewal of the Company's charter was for many days consecutively examined for several hours before the House of Commons, when his evidence excited the surprise and even admiration, of all parties in the House. He then was sent to Madras (to which establishment he belongs,) by the Court of Directors, on an important duty, connected with the permanent settlement of the revenues at that Presidency ; and we now find him actively employed as a soldier,...
Pàgina 143 - Hence no vision can approach him, no language can describe him, no intellectual power can compass or determine him. We know nothing of how the Supreme Being should be explained : he is beyond all that is within the reach of comprehension, and also beyond nature, which is above conception.