Calcutta Review, Volume 37University of Calcutta, 1862 - India |
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... Malacca , and lastly , of Pinang , the three stations which com- prise the Straits Settlement . When Sir Stamford Raffles took possession of it in the name of His Britannic Majesty King George the Third , and 36 The Straits Settlement .
... Malacca , and lastly , of Pinang , the three stations which com- prise the Straits Settlement . When Sir Stamford Raffles took possession of it in the name of His Britannic Majesty King George the Third , and 36 The Straits Settlement .
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... of 14,000,0007 . There are three principal passages leading into the harbour , one from the China seas on the East ; another from the Bay of Bengal through the straits of Malacca , on the West The Straits Settlement . 37.
... of 14,000,0007 . There are three principal passages leading into the harbour , one from the China seas on the East ; another from the Bay of Bengal through the straits of Malacca , on the West The Straits Settlement . 37.
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Bengal through the straits of Malacca , on the West ; and the third from the Southern and Indian Oceans through innumerable dangerous straits past the Dutch settlement of Riou on the South . A lighthouse stands at the extremity of both ...
Bengal through the straits of Malacca , on the West ; and the third from the Southern and Indian Oceans through innumerable dangerous straits past the Dutch settlement of Riou on the South . A lighthouse stands at the extremity of both ...
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... Malacca ; the Javanese of Java ; the Boan of Amboyna ; the independent and haughty looking Bugisman , native of the Eastern parts of Celebes ; Eu- ropean and East Indian merchants and clerks hurrying to and fro ; Chinese traders ...
... Malacca ; the Javanese of Java ; the Boan of Amboyna ; the independent and haughty looking Bugisman , native of the Eastern parts of Celebes ; Eu- ropean and East Indian merchants and clerks hurrying to and fro ; Chinese traders ...
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... Malacca upwards of two centuries ago . Few of them have seen China though they retain a great veneration for it , and they are generally better able to speak the Malay than the Chinese immigrants . They keep their families at Malacca ...
... Malacca upwards of two centuries ago . Few of them have seen China though they retain a great veneration for it , and they are generally better able to speak the Malay than the Chinese immigrants . They keep their families at Malacca ...
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Page 276 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses, or who wins the prize. Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Page 169 - Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
Page 352 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not; They have ears, but they hear not; noses have they, but they smell not; They have hands, but they handle not; feet have they, but they walk not; neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Page 259 - Papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again.
Page 49 - And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. 11. And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
Page 275 - I'd say, we suffer and we strive, Not less nor more as men than boys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five, As erst at twelve in corduroys. And if, in time of sacred youth, We learned at home to love and pray. Pray Heaven that early Love and Truth May never wholly pass away.
Page 250 - It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness that I delight in many Dutch paintings, which lofty-minded people despise. I find a source of delicious sympathy in these faithful pictures of a monotonous homely existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of world-stirring actions.
Page 251 - Paint us an angel, if you can, with a floating violet robe, and a face paled by the celestial light ; paint us yet oftener a Madonna, turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory ; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules which shall banish from the region of Art those old women scraping carrots with their work-worn hands, those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pot-house, those rounded backs and stupid weather-beaten faces that have bent over the spade and...
Page 275 - I'd say, your woes were not less keen, Your hopes more vain, than those of men ; Your pangs or pleasures of fifteen, At forty-five played o'er again. I 'd say, we suffer and we strive Not less nor more as men than boys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five, As erst at twelve, in corduroys.
Page 200 - The question now before us is simply whether, when it is in our power to teach this language, we shall teach languages in which by universal confession there are no books on any subject which deserve to be compared to our own...