The Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature, Volume 7James Silk Buckingham J. M. Richardson, 1825 |
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... existence in a free coun- try , in which virtue ought ever to be valued above peace ; and as virtue is generated by praise and emulation , it must necessarily languish where it is confounded by the laws with vice and immorality , by ...
... existence in a free coun- try , in which virtue ought ever to be valued above peace ; and as virtue is generated by praise and emulation , it must necessarily languish where it is confounded by the laws with vice and immorality , by ...
Pagina 27
... existence . This is to throw away the parole evidence altogether , whenever the court may take it into its head to do so , and decide the case from any other circumstances that may happen to be known . To quote one or two of the ...
... existence . This is to throw away the parole evidence altogether , whenever the court may take it into its head to do so , and decide the case from any other circumstances that may happen to be known . To quote one or two of the ...
Pagina 28
... existence ; all witnesses are put upon a level , as equally unworthy of reliance . Native evidence , in the gross , is treated as a mass of undistinguishable perfidy ! The court consequently takes the liberty to select and reject what ...
... existence ; all witnesses are put upon a level , as equally unworthy of reliance . Native evidence , in the gross , is treated as a mass of undistinguishable perfidy ! The court consequently takes the liberty to select and reject what ...
Pagina 42
... existence from a period when the solstitial and equinoctial colures passed through the signs of Leo and Taurus ? But while the worship of animal similitudes was thus common in the East , the Egyptians alone appear to have offered the ...
... existence from a period when the solstitial and equinoctial colures passed through the signs of Leo and Taurus ? But while the worship of animal similitudes was thus common in the East , the Egyptians alone appear to have offered the ...
Pagina 79
... existence of public virtue , merely because the corrupted depravity of their own hearts has expelled from their nature every sentiment of mag- nanimity , and every feeling of disinterestedness . The politician , who abandons the cause ...
... existence of public virtue , merely because the corrupted depravity of their own hearts has expelled from their nature every sentiment of mag- nanimity , and every feeling of disinterestedness . The politician , who abandons the cause ...
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Pagina 244 - Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
Pagina 247 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Pagina 489 - Instruction for the purpose of ascertaining the state of Public education in this part of India, and of the Public Institutions designed for its promotion, and of considering and from time to time submitting to Government the suggestion of such measures, as it may appear expedient to adopt with a view to the better instruction of the people, to the introduction among them of useful knowledge and to the improvement of their moral character.
Pagina 438 - Her lot is on you — silent tears to weep, And patient smiles to wear through suffering's hour, And sunless riches, from affection's deep, To pour on broken reeds — a wasted shower ! And to make idols, and to find them clay, And to bewail that worship — therefore pray!
Pagina 37 - Origines, or Remarks on the Origin of several Empires, States, and Cities,
Pagina 173 - Your Majesty having been pleased by your order in Council of '• the...
Pagina 52 - Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with storms. When the tide rushes from her rumbling caves, The rough rock roars ; tumultuous boil the waves, Boisterous and gentle sounds.
Pagina 244 - It is indifferent for judges and magistrates: for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals commonly, in their hortatives, put men in mind of their wives and children.
Pagina 72 - ... que les rois sont faits pour les peuples, et non pas les peuples pour les rois.
Pagina 291 - But the time appointed for labour is to be narrowly examined, otherwise you may imagine, that since there are only six hours appointed for work, they may fall under a scarcity of necessary provisions. But it is so far from being true that this time is not sufficient for supplying them with plenty of all things, either necessary or convenient, that it is rather too much ; and this you will easily apprehend if you consider how great a part of all other nations is quite idle.