The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volum 6Wm. H. Allen & Company, 1818 |
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Pàgina 55
... Madras , Bombay , and Bencoolen , from the 1st of May 1816 to the 30th of April 1817 . Annual charges of the East - India Com- pany for the managemant of the trade of Bengal , Madras and Bombay , to the latest possible period . Ditto ...
... Madras , Bombay , and Bencoolen , from the 1st of May 1816 to the 30th of April 1817 . Annual charges of the East - India Com- pany for the managemant of the trade of Bengal , Madras and Bombay , to the latest possible period . Ditto ...
Pàgina 74
... Madras Gazette , and published in that paper , from which we copy the following table , in which the altitude above the sea is calculated . Peaks . Feet . Peaks . Feet . 1 22,345 15 22,419 2 22,058 16 17,994 3 22,840 17 4 21,611 6 5 ...
... Madras Gazette , and published in that paper , from which we copy the following table , in which the altitude above the sea is calculated . Peaks . Feet . Peaks . Feet . 1 22,345 15 22,419 2 22,058 16 17,994 3 22,840 17 4 21,611 6 5 ...
Pàgina 75
... Madras , Dec. 16 , 1817. - The period when it is considered dangerous for ships to remain in the Madras Roadsted , is now passed , and yesterday the flag - staff of St. George was rehoisted according to annual custom to indicate the ...
... Madras , Dec. 16 , 1817. - The period when it is considered dangerous for ships to remain in the Madras Roadsted , is now passed , and yesterday the flag - staff of St. George was rehoisted according to annual custom to indicate the ...
Pàgina 87
... Madras Civil Service . 18. Miss E. Birmingham , to J. Clark , Esq . of the firm of Messrs . Clark , and Cu . 22. Mr. H. Gatfield , to Miss A. Evans . - Capt . J. White , to Mrs. E. Gatton . 24. Mr. W. Dadd , to Mrs. E. Elston . 25. R ...
... Madras Civil Service . 18. Miss E. Birmingham , to J. Clark , Esq . of the firm of Messrs . Clark , and Cu . 22. Mr. H. Gatfield , to Miss A. Evans . - Capt . J. White , to Mrs. E. Gatton . 24. Mr. W. Dadd , to Mrs. E. Elston . 25. R ...
Pàgina 91
... Madras , dated 24th Jan. 1818. - Our Governor - general is engaged in a most extensive Mahratta war , and I hope and think he will make it of short duration , for he has a most formidable force in the field , and several signal defeats ...
... Madras , dated 24th Jan. 1818. - Our Governor - general is engaged in a most extensive Mahratta war , and I hope and think he will make it of short duration , for he has a most formidable force in the field , and several signal defeats ...
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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.