The Calcutta Review, Том 21University of Calcutta, 1853 |
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Agra Akbar appear appointed Arab Arabia Assam authority Bani Bakr Benares Bengal Board Bombay Brahmans British Budha Calcutta called canal Canara Captain Durand century chief Christian Cis-Sutlej civil clause Coreish Court of Directors cultivation Cussai Delhi déwas district Doab double Government duty East India Company existing fact feet Ganges Ghatafan Gótama grants Hârith hills Himyar Hindu Hîra House interest Jain Kaaba Khazraj king labour Lahore lakhs land Lord M. C. de Perceval Madras Mahomet Malabar Mecca ment miles Mirzapur mountain Mundzir Nágaséna Najd native Nomân North West Provinces officers party pass Persian Peshawar population possession present prince proprietors Punjab Raja readers revenue river road rules rupees ryots Ryotwari Shah Sikh supply Taghlib teak teak forests temple Tenasserim tenure timber tion tomb tracts traveller trees tribes village whole wood Yemen
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Страница 360 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs...
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Страница 80 - God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day. The Angel which redeemed me from all evil. bless the lads...
Страница 440 - Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the Lord.
Страница 340 - Through various transmigrations I must travel if I do not discover The builder whom I seek;— Painful are repeated transmigrations. I have seen the architect— and said— • Thou shalt not build me another house ; Thy rafters are broken, Thy roof timbers scattered, My mind is detached from all existing objects; I have attained to the extinction of desire.
Страница 73 - This narrative of obscure and remote events is not foreign to the decline and fall of the Roman empire. If a Christian power had been maintained in Arabia, Mahomet must have been crushed in his cradle, and Abyssinia would have prevented a revolution which has changed the civil and religious state of the world*.
Страница 292 - Company and their servants had done for the improvement of the country, and the amelioration of the condition of the people. There was a strong gathering of members ; and the seats allotted to strangers, both " under the gallery" and in the galleries, were unusually crowded.
Страница 331 - He who is now the most degraded of the demons, may one day rule the highest of the heavens ; he who is at present seated upon the most honourable of the celestial thrones may one day writhe amidst the agonies of a place of torment ; and the worm that we crush under our feet may, in the course of ages, become a supreme Budha.