Asiatick Researches: Or, Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal, for Inquiring Into the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature, of Asia..., Volume 4J. Swan and Company, 1798 - Asia Vol. 2-3, 5-12 have lists of the members of the society. |
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... inches in di- ameter , and twelve feet high , ( banches included ) ; but they continue fruitful for many years , and are said to grow to a size not much inferior to that of a Mango - tree . When the fruit is ripe , it is ga- thered ...
... inches in di- ameter , and twelve feet high , ( banches included ) ; but they continue fruitful for many years , and are said to grow to a size not much inferior to that of a Mango - tree . When the fruit is ripe , it is ga- thered ...
Page 93
... inches , and perhaps more under five feet three inches , than above that standard : it may not how- ever be far from the truth to consider that as the medium size of their men : a flat nose seems the most characteristic feature ; but it ...
... inches , and perhaps more under five feet three inches , than above that standard : it may not how- ever be far from the truth to consider that as the medium size of their men : a flat nose seems the most characteristic feature ; but it ...
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... inches deep with a piece of hard wood pointed , in the middle of June , or setting in of the rains , in each of these , two grains of Takalloo , two of Kosarane , two or three of Láhary , and from five to seven of Naito , are thrown in ...
... inches deep with a piece of hard wood pointed , in the middle of June , or setting in of the rains , in each of these , two grains of Takalloo , two of Kosarane , two or three of Láhary , and from five to seven of Naito , are thrown in ...
Page 121
... inch from the base to the point of the horn , very irregu- lar in its breadth , in the centre reaches to the junc- tion of the horn with the mandible : upper and lower mandible serated , and separate from each other , about three inches ...
... inch from the base to the point of the horn , very irregu- lar in its breadth , in the centre reaches to the junc- tion of the horn with the mandible : upper and lower mandible serated , and separate from each other , about three inches ...
Page 122
... inches of white at their ends ; secondaries , nearly the same ; ter- tials black ; a few white feathers on the ... inches ; ex- tent , three feet two inches . WHITE - HORNED Bagma Dunnase , agreeing with the former in description ...
... inches of white at their ends ; secondaries , nearly the same ; ter- tials black ; a few white feathers on the ... inches ; ex- tent , three feet two inches . WHITE - HORNED Bagma Dunnase , agreeing with the former in description ...
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Page 185 - The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts; and the unstrained application of them to events long subsequent to their publication, is a solid ground of belief that they were genuine predictions, and consequently inspired.
Page 96 - 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...
Page 166 - Learn from yon orient shell to love thy foe, And store with pearls the hand that brings thee woe : Free, like yon rock, from base vindictive pride, Emblaze with gems the wrist that rends thy side : Mark where yon tree rewards the stony shower With fruit nectareous, or the balmy flower : All Nature calls aloud — " Shall man do less Than heal the smiter, and the railer bless ?
Page 133 - In general he was not voracious, but never appeared satiated with grasshoppers ; and passed the whole night, while the hot season lasted, in prowling for them : when a grasshopper, or any insect, alighted within his reach, his eyes, which he fixed on his prey, glowed with uncommon fire ; and, having drawn himself back to spring on it with greater force, he seized the victim with both his fore-paws, but held it in one of them while he devoured it.
Page iv - Naturalist can occasion the misery of an innocent bird, and leave its young, perhaps, to perish in a cold nest, because it has gay plumage, and has never been accurately delineated ; or deprive even a butterfly of its natural enjoyments, because it has the misfortune to be rare or beautiful : nor shall I ever forget the couplet of FIRDAUSI, for which SADI, who cites it with applause, pours blessings on his departed spirit.
Page 176 - ... in India, confirmed what his fagacity had anticipated, that without principles to refer to, in a language familiar to the judges of the courts, adjudications...
Page 132 - ... of displeasure by a peevish cry, especially in winter, when he was often as fierce, on being much importuned, as any beast of the woods. From half an hour after sunrise to half an hour before sunset he slept without intermission, rolled up like a hedgehog; and, as soon as he awoke, he began to prepare himself for the labours of...
Page 163 - ... which would be lunacy) but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending, that it has no essence independent of mental perception, that existence and perceptibility are convertible terms, that external appearances and sensations are illusory, and would vanish into nothing, if the divine energy, which alone sustains them, were suspended but for a moment...
Page 186 - Linnaeus, he discovered system, truth, and science, which never failed to captivate and engage his attention ; and from the proofs which he has exhibited of his progress in Botany, we may conclude that he would have extended the discoveries in that science.
Page 185 - I cannot refrain from adding that the collection of tracts, which we call, from their excellence, the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.