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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... strong , close , and extended . It is fond of a rich red loam tending to a blackish clay , mixed with a crumbling stone of the colour of marle . It grows principally on N. on the N. W. side of Sumatra , from 2 ON THE CAMPHOR.
... strong , close , and extended . It is fond of a rich red loam tending to a blackish clay , mixed with a crumbling stone of the colour of marle . It grows principally on N. on the N. W. side of Sumatra , from 2 ON THE CAMPHOR.
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... stone , on which the coral grows , and are the only appearance of roots it exhibits . On examining the internal ex- tremities of these papilla by means of glasses , some very small ramifications are discovered . These are very easily ...
... stone , on which the coral grows , and are the only appearance of roots it exhibits . On examining the internal ex- tremities of these papilla by means of glasses , some very small ramifications are discovered . These are very easily ...
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... stones , coarse sand , or any other substances , it seizes them firmly , and speedily includes them within a strong extension of its close ramifications . These collections in seas , subject to frequent storms and agitations , must be ...
... stones , coarse sand , or any other substances , it seizes them firmly , and speedily includes them within a strong extension of its close ramifications . These collections in seas , subject to frequent storms and agitations , must be ...
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... stones and other sub- stances , in seven , eight , or eleven fathoms of water . In the course , probably , of forty or fifty years , an island might be formed by the growth of this sub- stance . This is a long period to look forward to ...
... stones and other sub- stances , in seven , eight , or eleven fathoms of water . In the course , probably , of forty or fifty years , an island might be formed by the growth of this sub- stance . This is a long period to look forward to ...
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... stones , and red sand , founded on an under- soil of soft rock , intersected with veins of this useful substance . The space affording the ore is consider- able ; extending above a degree in length , and further east , or into the ...
... stones , and red sand , founded on an under- soil of soft rock , intersected with veins of this useful substance . The space affording the ore is consider- able ; extending above a degree in length , and further east , or into the ...
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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.