Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Volume 4Vepery mission Press., 1836 |
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Page ii - If now it be asked, what are the intended objects of our inquiries within these spacious limits, we answer, MAN and NATURE; whatever is performed by the one, or produced by the other.
Page 381 - Samarcand and Bokhara, as the price of a little black mole setting off the features of a pretty face, for thou hast said in one of thy verses : " ' If that fair maiden of Shiraz would accept my love, I would give for the dark mole which adorns her cheek Samarcand and Bokhara.' " Hafiz bowed to the ground before Timur, and said to him : " Alas ! O Prince, it is this prodigality which is the cause of the misery in which you see me.
Page 131 - ... seeing that all the longest life and most vigorous intellect can give him power to discover by his own research, or time to know by availing himself of that of others, serves only to place him on the very frontier of knowledge, and afford a distant glimpse of boundless realms beyond, where no human thought has penetrated, but which yet he is sure must be no less familiarly known to that Intelligence 'which he traces throughout creation than the most obvious truths which he himself daily applies...
Page 98 - And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Page 129 - A body falls from rest from a height so great that the fact that the force of gravity varies inversely as the square of the distance from the center of the earth cannot be neglected.
Page 120 - I concur in opinion with those who deem the Germans never to have intermarried with other nations; but to be a race, pure, unmixed, and stamped with a distinct character. Hence a family likeness pervades the whole, though their numbers are so great...
Page 118 - Majesty engages for himself and his subjects, never to form any establishment on any part of the Peninsula of Malacca, or to conclude any Treaty with any native Prince, Chief, or State...
Page 383 - ... we may suppose, that his mind took that religious bent, " which appears in most of his compositions...
Page 400 - Dewananpiausso," composed equally for the delight and affliction of righteous men. CHAP. XII. The illuminator of the religion of the vanquisher, the th6ro son of Moggali, having terminated the third convocation, was reflecting on futurity. Perceiving ( that the time had arrived) for the establishment of the religion of Buddho in foreign countries, he dispatched severally, in the month of " kattiko," the following theros to those foreign parts.
Page 400 - This verse is a quotation from Kachchayano"s grammar, the oldest referred to in the Pali literature of Ceylon. The original work is not extant in this island. I shall have to advert to it hereafter. Into this disputed question, as to the relative antiquity of these two ancient languages, it is not my intention to enter. With no other acquaintance with the Sanscrit, than what is afforded...