The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volum 6Wm. H. Allen & Company, 1818 |
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Pàgina 15
... letter had arrived from Delhi stating that we had stolen the philosopher's stone and three lacks of rupees from the Com- pany's wife . A letter arrived from Bandhu Thápá's son , now at Solur , directing Jagrup to treat us with attention ...
... letter had arrived from Delhi stating that we had stolen the philosopher's stone and three lacks of rupees from the Com- pany's wife . A letter arrived from Bandhu Thápá's son , now at Solur , directing Jagrup to treat us with attention ...
Pàgina 29
... letter , written in triplicate , by Amer Sing their principal general , who is said to be a man of great abilities , was inter- cepted by us , and afforded some insight into their plans . This letter , which was addressed to his ...
... letter , written in triplicate , by Amer Sing their principal general , who is said to be a man of great abilities , was inter- cepted by us , and afforded some insight into their plans . This letter , which was addressed to his ...
Pàgina 33
... Letter to SIR HUMPHRY DAVY , L.L.D. F.R.S. By JOHN DAVY , M.D. F.R.S. From the Transactions of the Royal Society for 1817 , Part II . MY DEAR BROTHER , -According to the promise contained in a former letter , I proceed to give you a ...
... Letter to SIR HUMPHRY DAVY , L.L.D. F.R.S. By JOHN DAVY , M.D. F.R.S. From the Transactions of the Royal Society for 1817 , Part II . MY DEAR BROTHER , -According to the promise contained in a former letter , I proceed to give you a ...
Pàgina 59
... letter to the executive body , urging them in the strongest manner , if they wished the af- fairs of the Company to be conducted on proper principles , beneficial to the direc tors and advantageous to the Company , to take into their ...
... letter to the executive body , urging them in the strongest manner , if they wished the af- fairs of the Company to be conducted on proper principles , beneficial to the direc tors and advantageous to the Company , to take into their ...
Pàgina 76
... letter , with which we have been kindly favored . " The streets are wide , the houses of stone , the whole having an appearance of grandeur , vastly superior to any thing I ever beheld in India . The only part of the palace I could see ...
... letter , with which we have been kindly favored . " The streets are wide , the houses of stone , the whole having an appearance of grandeur , vastly superior to any thing I ever beheld in India . The only part of the palace I could see ...
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1st batt Ahmednuggur appears appointed April Arabs army arrived artillery Asiatic attack Bajee Row Bengal Bombay Brig.gen brigade British Calcutta Cape Capt cavalry Ceylon charge chief China command Commander-in-chief commissioners Company Company's conduct corps court of directors dated Camp David Ochterlony detachment dispatch ditto division Doveton East-India enemy Extract fire force formed Gazette Governor Gravesend guns Hastings havildar hill Hindus Hislop Holkar honour horse Hudleston India infantry John killed late letter Lieut Lieut.col Lord Lord Macartney Madras Mahratta Majesty's Major Mangalore March Mauritius ment miles military morning Mysore Nagpore native neral occasion officers party Peishwa Persian Persian language person Pindarees Poona present proprietors racter Rajah rank received regiment regt resident respect river Scindia sepoys ships Thomas Hislop tion Tippoo town troops vice village whole wounded
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.