The Asiatic Quarterly Review, Volums 5-6Swan Sonnenshein & Company, 1888 |
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Abdur Rahman administration Afghan Afghanistan Amir Arabic army Aryan Asia Assam Bengal Bombay British Government Burmah Burmese Bussora Calcutta carried century chief China Chinese Christian civil command Company Council cultivation Dakhan district doubt duties East Empire England English European fact favour Frederick Roberts French frontier geographical GEORGE STRACHAN Gnostics Gombroon Government of India Gwalior Hindu Hittites honour important interest Ispahan Kabul Kandahar Khán King Kistna land Lord Lord William Bentinck Madras Mahratta matter Maulmain ment miles military millions native officers opinion Oriental passed Persian Gulf plough political port position possession present Prince province Punjab Punjab University question Quetta race railway regard regiments revenue river route ruler rupees Russia Salween Shan Siam success territory Theinni tion town trade treaty tribes troops valley village Western whole Yunnan
Passatges populars
Pàgina 362 - And the sound that goeth out of his mouth. He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, And his lightning unto the ends of the earth. After it a voice roareth ; He thundereth with the voice of his majesty : And he stayeth them not when his voice is heard. God thundereth marvellously with his voice; Great things doeth he, Which we cannot comprehend.
Pàgina 362 - After it a voice roareth : he thundereth with the voice of his excellency ; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard. 5 God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
Pàgina 296 - In point of age, therefore, most other creeds are youthful compared with this venerable religion, which has in it the eternity of a universal hope, the immortality of a boundless love, an indestructible element of faith in final good, and the proudest assertion ever made of human freedom.
Pàgina 429 - On whatever houses the women of a family, not being duly honoured, pronounce an imprecation, those houses, with all that belong to them, utterly perish, as if destroyed by a sacrifice for the death of an enemy.
Pàgina 438 - I am induced to give as an instance, the interest and care which our ancient lagislators took in the promotion of the comfort of the female part of the community ; and to compare the laws of female inheritance which they enacted, and which afforded that sex the opportunity of enjoyment of life, with that which moderns and our contemporaries have gradually introduced and established, to their complete privation, directly or indirectly, of most of those objects that render life agreeable.
Pàgina 348 - British, partly of Chinese origin, to about the same value. From the Straits Settlements produce is imported to the value of £22,000, making in all £762,000, or over three-quarters of a million sterling. " The imports from the continent of Europe are valued at £164,000, and from the United States £50,000. If we suppose the imports from Hong Kong to be equally divided between goods of British and Chinese origin, the result will be, articles produced in Great Britain and British possessions to...
Pàgina 435 - These were inspired by the spirit of chivalry, which, though considered, commonly, as a wild institution, the effect of caprice, and the source of extravagance, arose naturally from the state of society at that period, and had a very serious influence in refining the manners of the European nations.
Pàgina 328 - On and after the 1st day of September, 1884, corresponding to the 8th day of Maskarram, 1877, the country called Bogos shall be restored to His Majesty the Negoosa Negust ; and when the troops of His Highness the Khedive shall have left the garrisons of Kassala, Amedib, and Sanhit, the buildings in the Bogos country which now belong to His Highness the Khedive, together with all the stores and munitions of war which shall then remain in the said buildings, shall be delivered to and become the property...
Pàgina 343 - HungChang and his colleagues arrange for the formation of the first division of the navy. They can at the same time inspect the railway. If it is found to be useful and free from objections, they would suggest that similar plans be put into operation in the various mining districts of the country. "The Memorialists venture to present ,this Memorial to her Majesty the Empress, being moved thereto by the necessity of the times and their desire for the welfare of the nation.
Pàgina 439 - ... neglecting step-mothers in the division. Here the expounders did not take into their consideration any proper provision for step-mothers, who have naturally less hope of support from their step-sons than mothers can expect from their own children. In the opinion of these expounders even a mother of a single son should not be entitled to any share. The whole property should, in that case, devolve on the son, and in case that son should die after his succession to the property, his son or wife...