The Quarterly Review, Band 14William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1816 |
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... present extensive marshes . In the centre of the broadest part of the island , and at the distance of about one - third of its length from the southern extremity , is a high peaked hill , which Knox says the Singhalese call Hamalell ...
... present extensive marshes . In the centre of the broadest part of the island , and at the distance of about one - third of its length from the southern extremity , is a high peaked hill , which Knox says the Singhalese call Hamalell ...
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... present betel is throughout the east the symbol of friendship - it is the calumet of peace . The men labour but little ; the women rather more , but not much . Rice , millet and pulse are the principal articles that cost them any pains ...
... present betel is throughout the east the symbol of friendship - it is the calumet of peace . The men labour but little ; the women rather more , but not much . Rice , millet and pulse are the principal articles that cost them any pains ...
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... present at a re- gular catch of wild elephants , has given a very minute and elabo- rate description of this grand and singular scene , which agrees ex- actly with that of Baldæus and Valentyn and Thunberg . The proceeding is briefly ...
... present at a re- gular catch of wild elephants , has given a very minute and elabo- rate description of this grand and singular scene , which agrees ex- actly with that of Baldæus and Valentyn and Thunberg . The proceeding is briefly ...
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... fish to produce pearls , as the Chinese , at present , do the Mytilus Cygneus , the swan muscle , by throwing into the shell , when it opens , five or six minute mother- " mother - of - pearl beads , strung on 1815 . 31 Ceylon .
... fish to produce pearls , as the Chinese , at present , do the Mytilus Cygneus , the swan muscle , by throwing into the shell , when it opens , five or six minute mother- " mother - of - pearl beads , strung on 1815 . 31 Ceylon .
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... Indian commerce . Leaving , however , out of the present question , the loss of India and the China trade , or considering them as remote contingencies , the the harbour of Trincomallée must alone stamp a value on 34 Ост . Ceylon .
... Indian commerce . Leaving , however , out of the present question , the loss of India and the China trade , or considering them as remote contingencies , the the harbour of Trincomallée must alone stamp a value on 34 Ост . Ceylon .
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Seite 201 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Seite 210 - When soft! — the dusky trees between, And down the path through the open green, Where is no living thing to be seen ; And through yon gateway, where is found, Beneath the arch with ivy bound, Free entrance to the church-yard ground...
Seite 208 - Further, it is the language of men who speak of what they do not understand; who talk of Poetry as of a matter of amusement and idle pleasure; who will converse with us as gravely about a taste for Poetry, as they express it, as if it were a thing as indifferent as a taste for rope-dancing, or Frontiniac or Sherry.
Seite 433 - Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it ; Thou shall love thy neighbour, as thyself.
Seite 288 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master.
Seite 208 - Poet, and too feeble to grapple with him; men who take upon them to report of the course which he holds whom they are utterly unable to accompany, — confounded if he turn quick upon the wing, dismayed if he soar steadily into
Seite 394 - Lataniers, conversed together for the last time ; and where the old man, at the sight of the Southern Cross, warns them that it is time to separate !"— DE HUMBOLDT'S Travels.
Seite 478 - And thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrad horse. And thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman. And thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword.
Seite 231 - Yet if perchance remember'd, still disdain you 'em More than you scorn the savages of yore, Who painted their bare limbs, but not with gore. is a most extraordinary character. He dines every morning about nine. He sleeps almost naked ; he affects a perfect indifference to heat and cold ; and quits his chamber, which approaches to suffocation, in order to review his troops, in a thin linen jacket, while the thermometer of Reaumur is at ten degrees below freezing. His manners correspond with his humours....