The Calcutta Review, Volume 26University of Calcutta, 1856 |
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... miles an hour . Suddenly we asked ourselves why we should travel more slowly and less comfortably than our countrymen in Australia or our brethren in America ; forthwith we were indignant with the Government which had so long presumed ...
... miles an hour . Suddenly we asked ourselves why we should travel more slowly and less comfortably than our countrymen in Australia or our brethren in America ; forthwith we were indignant with the Government which had so long presumed ...
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... miles a day , which is , we suppose , about double of what any man can perform , if he is to travel five days successively . Herodotus ' calculation , therefore , makes the penin- sula about half of its real breadth . But with the ...
... miles a day , which is , we suppose , about double of what any man can perform , if he is to travel five days successively . Herodotus ' calculation , therefore , makes the penin- sula about half of its real breadth . But with the ...
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... miles distant from it . But what is most extraordinary is that this subsiding of the waters has uncovered first the top and then the lower parts of a vast caravanserai , which is situated in the sea , the distance of about two versts ...
... miles distant from it . But what is most extraordinary is that this subsiding of the waters has uncovered first the top and then the lower parts of a vast caravanserai , which is situated in the sea , the distance of about two versts ...
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... miles accomplished in one day by a vessel was one hundred and sixty miles , but the average daily rate of sailing was not more than thirty - eight . The for- mer of those distances is obviously inconsistent with Herodotus's calculation ...
... miles accomplished in one day by a vessel was one hundred and sixty miles , but the average daily rate of sailing was not more than thirty - eight . The for- mer of those distances is obviously inconsistent with Herodotus's calculation ...
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... miles the ruins of the masonry by which it was surrounded . Lepsius coin- cides with M. Linant's opinion . Up to this time , ' he says , it was only agreed that the lake lay some where in the Faiûm . As there is at the present time in ...
... miles the ruins of the masonry by which it was surrounded . Lepsius coin- cides with M. Linant's opinion . Up to this time , ' he says , it was only agreed that the lake lay some where in the Faiûm . As there is at the present time in ...
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Page 389 - ... certain it is, that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating and discoursing with another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words ; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Page 537 - This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
Page 500 - Intellectually, he appears to have been in nearly the lowest stage to which an intelligent being can sink ; morally, he was the slave of a superstition, the grovelling character of which will be traced in reviewing his sepulchral rites ; physically, he differed little in stature from the modern inheritors of the same soil, but his cerebral development was poor...
Page 493 - The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations proved by a Comparison of their Dialects with the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic Languages. Forming a Supplement to Researches into the Physical History of Mankind.
Page 285 - SHERLEY HIS RELATION OF HIS TRAVELS INTO PERSIA. THE DANGERS AND DISTRESSES, WHICH BEFELL HIM IN HIS PASSAGE, both by sea and land, and his strange and unexpected deliverances. His Magnificent Entertainment in Persia, His Honourable imployment there-hence, as Embassadour to the Princes of Christendome...
Page 41 - Vyse, that of the nine pyramids still existing at Gizeh, six (including all the largest) have the narrow passages by which alone they can be entered, (all which open out on the northern faces of their respective pyramids,) inclined to the horizon downwards at angles as follows. 1st, or Pyramid of Cheops 26° 41...
Page 243 - Kanoo; he was like a white man though dressed in the native style: on each hand he had ten fingers; he held a white book, and wrote therein; the book and with it 20 pieces of paper ... he presented to the brothers; ascended upwards, and disappeared.
Page 288 - Elizabeth, who said, that as a virtuous woman ought to look on none but her husband, so a subject ought not to cast his eyes on any other sovereign than him God had set over him. " I will not," said she, " have my sheep marked with a strange brand ; nor suffer them to follow the pipe of a strange shepherd.
Page 509 - Kaleeshunkur, a few attendants, and about twentv persons to throw the animal down, and hold it in the post, while the head was cut off. The goats were sacrificed first, then the buffaloes, and last of all two or three rams. In order to secure the animals, ropes were fastened round their legs ; they were then thrown down, and the neck placed in a piece of wood fastened into the ground, and made open at the top like the space between the prongs of a fork.
Page 600 - I now speak from a somewhat enlarged experience, from much consideration of the matter, and I have no hesitation in affirming that, if brought within the sphere of medical treatment in the earlier stages, or even within a few months of the attack, insanity, unless the result of severe...