The Calcutta Review, Volum 8University of Calcutta., 1847 |
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Pàgina 16
... tion of the rite of human sacrifices . " The next question , therefore , is , " How , or in what way are these objects to be successfully accomplished ? " Here Cap- tain Macpherson most emphatically replies that the first and most ...
... tion of the rite of human sacrifices . " The next question , therefore , is , " How , or in what way are these objects to be successfully accomplished ? " Here Cap- tain Macpherson most emphatically replies that the first and most ...
Pàgina 22
... tion of them . But the tribes having made out that no coercive measures were then intended , and that I , at least , was there with views purely friendly , they gradually became at ease , and laid their minds bare to me on the whole ...
... tion of them . But the tribes having made out that no coercive measures were then intended , and that I , at least , was there with views purely friendly , they gradually became at ease , and laid their minds bare to me on the whole ...
Pàgina 26
any principle which might be turned to account in the forma- tion of a Meriah - abolition scheme . Even in one of the very last of his excellent and statesman - like minutes on the subject , Lord Elphinstone does not venture farther ...
any principle which might be turned to account in the forma- tion of a Meriah - abolition scheme . Even in one of the very last of his excellent and statesman - like minutes on the subject , Lord Elphinstone does not venture farther ...
Pàgina 32
... tion to its benevolent designs . The facts being too notorious for denial , he admitted to Captain Macphersom , without any hesitation or difficulty , that " three public sacrifices had lately taken place , with his sanction , in ...
... tion to its benevolent designs . The facts being too notorious for denial , he admitted to Captain Macphersom , without any hesitation or difficulty , that " three public sacrifices had lately taken place , with his sanction , in ...
Pàgina 40
... tion , is this . We are to attempt , chiefly by engrafting our authority upon the institutions of these tribes , to give them justice , NOT ONLY AS AN END , BUT AS A CHIEF MEANS OF ACQUIRING THE DOMINION OVER THEM WHICH IS NECESSARY TO ...
... tion , is this . We are to attempt , chiefly by engrafting our authority upon the institutions of these tribes , to give them justice , NOT ONLY AS AN END , BUT AS A CHIEF MEANS OF ACQUIRING THE DOMINION OVER THEM WHICH IS NECESSARY TO ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 392 - And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
Pàgina 405 - A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.
Pàgina 392 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Pàgina 420 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then, the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Pàgina 249 - WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave...
Pàgina 420 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Pàgina 53 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Pàgina 420 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part; the sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Pàgina 420 - With listless eyes the dotard views the store, He views, and wonders that they please no more : Now pall the tasteless meats and joyless wines, And Luxury with sighs her slave resigns. Approach, ye minstrels, try the soothing strain, Diffuse the tuneful lenitives of pain : No sounds, alas ! would touch th...
Pàgina 420 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.