The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and AustraliaParbury, Allen, and Company, 1836 - Asia |
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... magistrate , keeps up a body of thieves , and divides the spoil with them . There are , of course , a great many robberies and murders committed . They have kauzees and mooftees , who are seldom applied to excepting in cases of the ...
... magistrate , keeps up a body of thieves , and divides the spoil with them . There are , of course , a great many robberies and murders committed . They have kauzees and mooftees , who are seldom applied to excepting in cases of the ...
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... magistrate , accordingly , prohibited the work ; but his superior sanctioned the undertaking , and the villagers were easily reconciled by bribery to the act of desecration which had excited so much horror . Mr. Holman launches out ...
... magistrate , accordingly , prohibited the work ; but his superior sanctioned the undertaking , and the villagers were easily reconciled by bribery to the act of desecration which had excited so much horror . Mr. Holman launches out ...
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... magistrates the umpires between both parties , as has been recently done in the West - Indies . Where the system of slavery had long been in existence , such an innovation , at that time , could not be expected to be popular ; but the ...
... magistrates the umpires between both parties , as has been recently done in the West - Indies . Where the system of slavery had long been in existence , such an innovation , at that time , could not be expected to be popular ; but the ...
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are the effects of the good taste evinced by the local magistrates of the district , in the disbursement of the town - dues . Saugor , however , has now to lament , in common with every town in India , the parsimonious spirit of Lord ...
are the effects of the good taste evinced by the local magistrates of the district , in the disbursement of the town - dues . Saugor , however , has now to lament , in common with every town in India , the parsimonious spirit of Lord ...
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... magistrate of that district , having gone to the spot , found the question a very delicate one ; and as he seemed to incline in favour of the apprentices , the master told him that , in order to obviate any further difficulty , he would ...
... magistrate of that district , having gone to the spot , found the question a very delicate one ; and as he seemed to incline in favour of the apprentices , the master told him that , in order to obviate any further difficulty , he would ...
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Page 146 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 45 - Deposition, Examination, Answer, or other Proceeding made or taken before him or them, to direct such Person to be prosecuted for such Perjury, in case there shall appear to him or them a reasonable Cause for such Prosecution...
Page 234 - An Act to empower his majesty to erect South Australia into a British province or provinces, and to provide for the colonization and government thereof.
Page 205 - A DISCOURSE ON THE INSTITUTION OF A SOCIETY, FOR INQUIRING INTO THE HISTORY, CIVIL AND NATURAL, THE ANTIQUITIES, ARTS, SCIENCES, AND LITERATURE, OF ASIA.
Page 50 - There is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory— when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption,— barbarism at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
Page 268 - To give another idea of the mass of matter in this stupendous fabric, it may be observed, that it is more than sufficient to surround the circumference of the earth on two of its great circles with two walls, each six feet high and two feet thick...
Page 206 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature, and the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the science among the inhabitants of the British territories in India...
Page 289 - I would choose rather to be a scholar than a prince without learning. I have a very good affectionate father ; but though very rich, yet so mighty near, that he thinks much of the charges of my education. He often tells me he believes my schooling will ruin him ; that I cost him God knows what, in books.
Page 151 - Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press; but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
Page 176 - That wondrous Paterne, wheresoere it bee, Whether in earth layd up in secret store, Or else in heaven, that no man may it see With sinfull eyes, for feare it to deflore, Is perfect Beautie, which all men adore; Whose face and feature doth so much excell All mortal sence, that none the same may tell.