Quarterly Review, Volume 24John Murray, 1821 |
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Page 110
... travellers passed several villages in ruins , but others were thickly scattered over the face of the hills , and sometimes perched on their crests . Those inhabited by Brahmins were always re- markably neat , ( an observation which ...
... travellers passed several villages in ruins , but others were thickly scattered over the face of the hills , and sometimes perched on their crests . Those inhabited by Brahmins were always re- markably neat , ( an observation which ...
Page 116
... traveller says nothing ; but he speaks with just praise of the temple ; and , indeed , if the moun- taineers , and not ( as we rather incline to think ) the Chinese , were the artists employed in its construction , they deserve the ...
... traveller says nothing ; but he speaks with just praise of the temple ; and , indeed , if the moun- taineers , and not ( as we rather incline to think ) the Chinese , were the artists employed in its construction , they deserve the ...
Page 122
... traveller describes between this valley and Jumnotree . Cataracts , of many hundred feet , precipitate themselves down the steep sides of the mountains ; while the foliage assumes a character suited to the general tone of the country ...
... traveller describes between this valley and Jumnotree . Cataracts , of many hundred feet , precipitate themselves down the steep sides of the mountains ; while the foliage assumes a character suited to the general tone of the country ...
Page 123
... travellers were now in the very heart of the lofty range of Himaleh , whose peaks towered in majestic grandeur above their ... traveller , are seen tower- ing above us , as ready to overwhelm the gazer with the snow from their summits ...
... travellers were now in the very heart of the lofty range of Himaleh , whose peaks towered in majestic grandeur above their ... traveller , are seen tower- ing above us , as ready to overwhelm the gazer with the snow from their summits ...
Page 124
... traveller says , so hot that the hand could not bear to be kept in it one moment ; it was pure , transparent and tasteless . The magnificent mountain of Bunderpouch , which towers above the sacred spot , where the goddess Jumna has ...
... traveller says , so hot that the hand could not bear to be kept in it one moment ; it was pure , transparent and tasteless . The magnificent mountain of Bunderpouch , which towers above the sacred spot , where the goddess Jumna has ...
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Page 42 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him,
Page 493 - Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and -with songs, with tabret and with harp...
Page 42 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 471 - His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Page 495 - The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
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Page 42 - Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
Page 299 - God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 162 - His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.