The Calcutta Review, Volume 26University of Calcutta, 1856 |
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Page 124
... Civil doctors , divines , and state - moralists said- ( And the senate confirm'd their opinion ; ) That for her , a mere trader , ( for what was she more ? ) Or her factors and clerks , from her counting - house door , To pretend to the ...
... Civil doctors , divines , and state - moralists said- ( And the senate confirm'd their opinion ; ) That for her , a mere trader , ( for what was she more ? ) Or her factors and clerks , from her counting - house door , To pretend to the ...
Page 189
... civil improvement , much has been done , during the last few years , to improve our military position . But , in the words of Napoleon , moral is to physical force as three to one , and moral strength is not altogether at the bidding of ...
... civil improvement , much has been done , during the last few years , to improve our military position . But , in the words of Napoleon , moral is to physical force as three to one , and moral strength is not altogether at the bidding of ...
Page 196
... Civil officers of the higher grades , are remunerated throughout the Provinces at somewhat the above rates . In every District are to be found half a dozen , whose salaries average 250 rupees , with two or three on 400 or 500 rupees a ...
... Civil officers of the higher grades , are remunerated throughout the Provinces at somewhat the above rates . In every District are to be found half a dozen , whose salaries average 250 rupees , with two or three on 400 or 500 rupees a ...
Page 200
... Civil establishments . If all have not been made honest , the right measures have been taken to make them so . The service is already greatly reformed . It is because the authorities seem still in the dark , regarding the necessity of ...
... Civil establishments . If all have not been made honest , the right measures have been taken to make them so . The service is already greatly reformed . It is because the authorities seem still in the dark , regarding the necessity of ...
Page 203
... Civil and Political employ should in- volve the tests in the languages , required of interpreters . At Madras , Tamul should be a requisite . * Exchanges should be permitted between Regiments , even of different Presidencies , also ...
... Civil and Political employ should in- volve the tests in the languages , required of interpreters . At Madras , Tamul should be a requisite . * Exchanges should be permitted between Regiments , even of different Presidencies , also ...
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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...