The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 2The Branch, 1887 - Archaeology |
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... leaves . During the heat of the day they conceal themselves in the thickest and shadiest parts of the plant , and remain perfectly motionless , till hunger and the cool breezes of evening again summon them to their pleasing labours ...
... leaves . During the heat of the day they conceal themselves in the thickest and shadiest parts of the plant , and remain perfectly motionless , till hunger and the cool breezes of evening again summon them to their pleasing labours ...
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... leaves and silk , and as they consume the foliage around them keep adding fresh ma- terials to their domicile . Others march out in order in a wedge shape , stripping the leafy covering of the trees most completely , leaving them almost ...
... leaves and silk , and as they consume the foliage around them keep adding fresh ma- terials to their domicile . Others march out in order in a wedge shape , stripping the leafy covering of the trees most completely , leaving them almost ...
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... leaf is changed the better ; once a day at least is absolutely necessary to obtain fine full - grown specimens ... leaves and the cast skin of their own heads . The third , more delicate still , simply weave their own silk . These ...
... leaf is changed the better ; once a day at least is absolutely necessary to obtain fine full - grown specimens ... leaves and the cast skin of their own heads . The third , more delicate still , simply weave their own silk . These ...
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... leaf , and when the male emerges from his living tomb the female has changed to a pulpy maggot , wholly differing from the swiftly flying male . Impregnation takes place within the case , and the female dies , becoming a mass of fine ...
... leaf , and when the male emerges from his living tomb the female has changed to a pulpy maggot , wholly differing from the swiftly flying male . Impregnation takes place within the case , and the female dies , becoming a mass of fine ...
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... leaves , & c . The pupæ of butterflies are usually attached to , or suspended from , or near , the plant on which they feed . It may not perhaps be out of place to mention here that European collectors have a method of capturing the ...
... leaves , & c . The pupæ of butterflies are usually attached to , or suspended from , or near , the plant on which they feed . It may not perhaps be out of place to mention here that European collectors have a method of capturing the ...
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Page 265 - AND seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Page 264 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray ; What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Page 251 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 297 - Yet empty of all good, wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief praise; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye...
Page 139 - return to the world ". To test the qualifications of every candidate for receiving the ordination, Gautama therefore inaugurated eleven questions 1 : — Are you afflicted with the following diseases : leprosy, boils, dry leprosy, consumption, or fits ? Are you a human being ? Are you a male ? Are you a freeman ? Have you no debts ? Are you not in the royal (military) service ? Have your father and mother given their consent ? Are you full twenty years old ? Are your alms-bowl and your robes in...
Page cvii - The President, and in his absence the Vice-President, shall take the Chair at all meetings of the Society and of the Committee, maintain order, collect the votes, and cause the laws of the Society to be observed and enforced.
Page 279 - ... 3. The eloped wife glistened with (her) streaming tears; 4. The jungle was bent with (the weight of) the dew upon the tender leaves." The same elegant writer has given us several puns of this kind: of which the reader will observe, the following stanza, consisting of 10 letters in each line, when divided into two, may be read without the second half, by supplying its place with the first half read from the last letter; or, from the end to the beginning, and from the beginning to end, as in the...
Page lxxv - Nupalese say that any of their books now existent, which is made of Palmira leaves, may be safely pronounced, on that account, to be 500 years old : whence we may, perhaps, infer that the paper manufacture was founded about that time.
Page 212 - Hills near Madras, where it rests on granite, and its interstratified beds of lignite and silicified wood, militate strongly against this theory. Besides, nothing is more common in lateritic tracts than to see a hill of granite, trap, or hypogene rock, capped with a thick crust of laterite; while the adjacent hills, composed of an exactly similar rock, and forming a continuation of the same bed, equally exposed to the action of the weather, are quite bare of laterite.
Page 89 - The Veddahs are mostly low in stature, but some of them are strong, active men, and most of them appear to be healthy and little subject to disease.