Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume 20, Issues 1-7G.H. Rouse, Baptist Mission Press, 1852 - Asia |
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Page 126 - They seemed to be governed by that sort of tacit common-sense law which, say what they will of the inborn lawlessness of the human race, has its precepts graven on every breast.
Page 545 - Government by a conquest over their minds : The most permanent, as the most rational, mode of dominion.
Page 216 - The Council may appoint persons, not being Members of the Council, to be salaried Officers, Clerks, or Servants, for carrying on the necessary concerns of the Society ; and may define the duties to be performed by them respectively ; and may allow to them respectively such salaries, gratuities, and privileges, as to them, the Council, may seem proper ; and may suspend or discharge any Officer, Clerk, or Servant from office, whenever there shall seem to them occasion for so doing.
Page 216 - Society shall proceed to determine the question ; and on its appearing that two-thirds of the Members present have voted for the ejection of the said Fellow, the President shall proceed to cancel his name in the Register...
Page 189 - BO covered with it in the afternoon, that one could write on it legibly. In the streets it was annoying, entering the eyes, nostrils and mouth, and grating under the teeth. My ophthalmic patients generally suffered a relapse, and an unusual number of new cases soon after presented. Were such heavy sand storms of frequent occurrence, diseases of the visual organs would prevail to a destructive extent.
Page 552 - ... an orderly race of people, their rulers have little more to do than bear their honours and collect the rent...
Page 215 - The bounds of its investigation will be the geographical limits of Asia ; and within these limits its inquiries will be extended to whatever is performed by man, or produced by nature.
Page 545 - Rajamahal; who, without bloodshed or the terror of authority, employing only the means of conciliation, confidence, and benevolence, attempted and accomplished the entire subjection of the lawless and savage inhabitants of the Jungleterry...
Page 216 - Society, the subject shall be laid before the Council ; and if a majority of the Council shall, after due deliberation, determine by ballot to propose to the Society the ejection of the said Fellow, the President shall in that case, at...
Page 216 - Society, and shall have returned all books or other property, if any, borrowed by him of the Society : or shall have made full compensation for the same, if lost or not forthcoming.