Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay, Part 37Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819 - India |
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... Native Infantry VII . Translations from the Persian , illustrative of the Opinions of the Sunni and Shia Sects of Mahomedans . By Brigadier General Sir JoHN MALCOLM , K.C.B. VIII . A Treatise on Sufiism , or Mahomedan Mysticism . By ...
... Native Infantry VII . Translations from the Persian , illustrative of the Opinions of the Sunni and Shia Sects of Mahomedans . By Brigadier General Sir JoHN MALCOLM , K.C.B. VIII . A Treatise on Sufiism , or Mahomedan Mysticism . By ...
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... native officers , subject to no very efficient check , may be considered as liable to considerable errors of negligence and incorrectness , though exempt from those of intentional falsehood . The average deaths during the year would ...
... native officers , subject to no very efficient check , may be considered as liable to considerable errors of negligence and incorrectness , though exempt from those of intentional falsehood . The average deaths during the year would ...
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... native Christians , from four of the parishes into which the island is divided . Their baptismal registers furnish an account of the number of births , which we have no easy and precise mode of ascertaining among the other inhabitants ...
... native Christians , from four of the parishes into which the island is divided . Their baptismal registers furnish an account of the number of births , which we have no easy and precise mode of ascertaining among the other inhabitants ...
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... native countries . Some of them are men of great wealth ; many are in easy circumstances ; and none are of the most indigent classes . From these cir- cumstances , the comparatively low rate of their mortality and the smaller num- ber ...
... native countries . Some of them are men of great wealth ; many are in easy circumstances ; and none are of the most indigent classes . From these cir- cumstances , the comparatively low rate of their mortality and the smaller num- ber ...
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... natives of India are unmarried Polygamy arises from tyranny , not from climate ; -it degrades all women for the sake of a very few men . And the frame of society has confined its practice within such narrow limits , that it never can ...
... natives of India are unmarried Polygamy arises from tyranny , not from climate ; -it degrades all women for the sake of a very few men . And the frame of society has confined its practice within such narrow limits , that it never can ...
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Page 91 - Then Job arose, and rent his mantle and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither : the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 122 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Page 106 - Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. 31 In that day, he which shall be upon the house-top, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away : and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. 32 Remember Lot's wife. 33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life. shall preserve it.
Page xxii - It has been lately observed, that " if the various states of Europe kept and published annually an exact account of their population, noting carefully in a second column the exact age at which the children die, this second column would show the relative merit of the Governments and the comparative happiness of their subjects. A simple arithmetical statement would then, perhaps, be more conclusive than all the arguments which could be produced.
Page 123 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts ; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Page 2 - Majesty's head, and had certainly despatched him if a large brass lamp which was burning over his head had not marred the blow; but, before he could make another, he was killed by the guards; and, I believe, the same Samorin reigns yet. I chanced to come that time along the coast and heard the guns for two or three days and nights successively.
Page xiv - ... variety of his accomplishments. In his easy and flowing prose we justly admire that order of exposition and transparency of language which are the most indispensable qualities of style, and the chief excellencies of which it is capable when it is employed solely to instruct. His writings...
Page 209 - ... a beautiful prospect of the northern part of the island, and the opposite shores of Salsette. " Advancing forward and keeping to the left along the bend of the hill, we gradually mount to an open space, and come suddenly on the grand entrance of a magnificent temple, whose huge massy columns seem to give support to the whole mountain which rises above it.
Page 199 - ... taught in public a religion, in which, in supposed compliance with the infirmities and passions of human nature, the Deity has been brought more to a level with our own prejudices and wants ; and...
Page xiv - It is not for me to attempt an estimate of those exertions for the advancement of knowledge which have arisen from the example and exhortations of Sir William Jones. In all...