Bombay Quarterly Review, Volume 3Smith, Taylor & Company, 1856 |
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... India following their ordi- nary avocations . Thinking probably that they would only have ... Indian history have preferred to abstain from such savourless fare . Mill ... Navy , and sent him to inaugurate their enterprise . At Batavia he ...
... India following their ordi- nary avocations . Thinking probably that they would only have ... Indian history have preferred to abstain from such savourless fare . Mill ... Navy , and sent him to inaugurate their enterprise . At Batavia he ...
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... Indian Ocean , from the Cape of Good Hope to Calcutta , including the Red Sea and Persian Gulf . It professes to be " compiled from the most recent surveys of the East India Company's officers , and those of the Royal Navy ; by John ...
... Indian Ocean , from the Cape of Good Hope to Calcutta , including the Red Sea and Persian Gulf . It professes to be " compiled from the most recent surveys of the East India Company's officers , and those of the Royal Navy ; by John ...
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... Navy , was the discontinuance of all maritime surveys on this side of India . This we learn from the quarterly ... Indian Navy , expressing great astonishment and regret that , " after all the expenditure of life and treasure in the ...
... Navy , was the discontinuance of all maritime surveys on this side of India . This we learn from the quarterly ... Indian Navy , expressing great astonishment and regret that , " after all the expenditure of life and treasure in the ...
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... Indian Navy , we shall proceed to Bombay , the head quarters of that service , and , after giving some account of the place , make it the starting point for a review of the Navy's labours . The harbour has during the last year been ...
... Indian Navy , we shall proceed to Bombay , the head quarters of that service , and , after giving some account of the place , make it the starting point for a review of the Navy's labours . The harbour has during the last year been ...
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... Indian Navy , has been enabled this season to finish his survey of this Gulf , which was commenced in 1834. His operations have extended from Diu Island to Goapnauth point , along the Kattyawar coast , around the head of the Gulf , and ...
... Indian Navy , has been enabled this season to finish his survey of this Gulf , which was commenced in 1834. His operations have extended from Diu Island to Goapnauth point , along the Kattyawar coast , around the head of the Gulf , and ...
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Page 409 - The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Page 379 - Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Page 379 - My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: for length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Page 367 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Page 380 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 96 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 354 - With mask and antique pageantry: Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Page 384 - At Landen two poor sickly beings, who, in a rude state of society, would have been regarded as too puny to bear any part in combats, were the souls of two great armies.
Page 95 - Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark How far, perhaps, they rue it.
Page 384 - It is probable that, among the hundred and twenty thousand soldiers who were marshalled round Neerwinden under all the standards of Western Europe, the two feeblest in body were the hunchbacked dwarf who urged forward the fiery onset of France, and the asthmatic skeleton who covered the slow retreat of England.