The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Band 21John George Cochrane 1838 |
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... present race of Thugs , and more resembling the Guachos with their lassos in South America , whom Captain Head so well describes . In the south of India there is a class of Thugs , who claim to have sprung up in that part , and profess ...
... present race of Thugs , and more resembling the Guachos with their lassos in South America , whom Captain Head so well describes . In the south of India there is a class of Thugs , who claim to have sprung up in that part , and profess ...
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... present paper . Although some classes greatly predo- minate , the Thugs now comprise men of almost every class and caste in India . This , however , is an infringement on their strict rules , which forbids the admission into the ...
... present paper . Although some classes greatly predo- minate , the Thugs now comprise men of almost every class and caste in India . This , however , is an infringement on their strict rules , which forbids the admission into the ...
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... present encampment is not deemed convenient for the purpose . Others keep watch at the time of the murder to obviate any danger of interruption ; and those who go out for the first time , or who are dull and slow in learning their ...
... present encampment is not deemed convenient for the purpose . Others keep watch at the time of the murder to obviate any danger of interruption ; and those who go out for the first time , or who are dull and slow in learning their ...
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... present business lies , have , as intimated , neither the re- gularity and completeness of the first - named poet , the life and variety of the second , nor the strong and romantic spirit of the last . But if it is easy to say what they ...
... present business lies , have , as intimated , neither the re- gularity and completeness of the first - named poet , the life and variety of the second , nor the strong and romantic spirit of the last . But if it is easy to say what they ...
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... present , or if it was ever experienced that a negro became white by living in Europe amongst Europeans , or the contrary ? With respect to the first of these objections , it must be observed , that from the earliest ages of history ...
... present , or if it was ever experienced that a negro became white by living in Europe amongst Europeans , or the contrary ? With respect to the first of these objections , it must be observed , that from the earliest ages of history ...
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Seite 426 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless...
Seite 427 - O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Seite 426 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Seite 425 - He that has sail'd upon the dark blue sea Has view'd at times, I ween, a full fair sight ; When the fresh breeze is fair -as breeze may be, The white sail set, the gallant frigate tight...
Seite 427 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense — the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way ? That for itself can woo the approaching fight, And turn what some deem danger to delight...
Seite 127 - Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying. Thou shall not eat of it'. " "Cursed is the ground for thy sake; In sorrow shall thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
Seite 427 - Let him who crawls enamour'd of decay, Cling to his couch, and sicken years away; Heave his thick breath, and shake his palsied head ; Ours — the fresh turf, and not the feverish bed.
Seite 428 - How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Seite 378 - I much fear that this country (however earnestly she may endeavour to avoid it) could not, in such case, avoid seeing ranked under her banners all the restless and dissatisfied of any nation with which she might come in conflict.
Seite 15 - We could not get him on, and after burying the bodies, Aman and I, and a few others, sat by him while the gang went on : we were very fond of him, and tried all we could to tranquillize him, but he never recovered his senses, and before evening he died.