Asiatick Researches: Or, Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal, for Inquiring Into the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature, of Asia..., Volumen5J. Swan and Company, 1799 Vol. 2-3, 5-12 have lists of the members of the society. |
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... purpose , after ineffectually trying in perfon the effects of perfuafion , in a progrefs that he made into that country in April , 1788 , he directed his offi- cers of Calicut , to begin by feizing on the Bráhmens , and to render them ...
... purpose , after ineffectually trying in perfon the effects of perfuafion , in a progrefs that he made into that country in April , 1788 , he directed his offi- cers of Calicut , to begin by feizing on the Bráhmens , and to render them ...
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... purposes , as well as to profecute my ftudies . From Cafhmir I went through Thibet to the Great Jo- wallah , which is fituated in a country where fire rifes out of the ground for the space of twelve cofs . In this Jowallah whoever wants ...
... purposes , as well as to profecute my ftudies . From Cafhmir I went through Thibet to the Great Jo- wallah , which is fituated in a country where fire rifes out of the ground for the space of twelve cofs . In this Jowallah whoever wants ...
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... purposes of many millions in this country . I fhall therefore explain and illuftrate fo complex and difficult a fubject , to the best of my ability and infor- mation from the natives , without prefuming , in the - difcuffion here , to ...
... purposes of many millions in this country . I fhall therefore explain and illuftrate fo complex and difficult a fubject , to the best of my ability and infor- mation from the natives , without prefuming , in the - difcuffion here , to ...
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... purpose , when the grand horologift himself is about to inform them , that now is the time to wait for the whole of their loft minutes , be- fore they proceed on a new score , at the risk , perhaps , of making the clofing g , buree of ...
... purpose , when the grand horologift himself is about to inform them , that now is the time to wait for the whole of their loft minutes , be- fore they proceed on a new score , at the risk , perhaps , of making the clofing g , buree of ...
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... purpose , his Birman Ma- jefty , on the death of TAOMANGEE , the late Mayoon , or Viceroy , which happened about five years ago , di- rected his fucceffor , MAIN LLA NO RETHEE , to quit Rangoon , and make Pegue his future refidence ...
... purpose , his Birman Ma- jefty , on the death of TAOMANGEE , the late Mayoon , or Viceroy , which happened about five years ago , di- rected his fucceffor , MAIN LLA NO RETHEE , to quit Rangoon , and make Pegue his future refidence ...
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Página vii - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Página vii - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years...
Página vii - And GOD created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and GOD saw that it was good.
Página vii - HE gave being to time and the divisions of time, to the stars also, and to the planets, to rivers, oceans, and mountains, to level plains, and uneven valleys.
Página x - Veda, prove the author to have adored (not the visible material sun, but) that divine and incomparably greater light, to use the words of the most venerable text in the Indian scripture, which illumines all, delights all, from which all proceed to which all must return, and which alone can irradiate (not our visual organs merely, but our souls and) our intellects.
Página 161 - I made experiments, nankeen, from the ftrength and quality of its fabric, appeared the beft calculated for coating with the gum. The method I followed in performing this, was, to lay the cloth fmooth upon a table, pour the milk upon it, and with a ruler to fpread it equally. But fhould this ever be attempted on a...
Página 399 - The diver, putting the toes of his right foot on the hair rope of the diving stone, and those of his left on the net, seizes the two cords with one hand, and shutting his nostrils with the other, plunges into the water. On reaching the bottom, he hangs the net round his neck, and collects into it the pearl...
Página 384 - A prince may facrifae his enemy, having firft invoked the ax with holy texts, by fubitituting a buffalo or goat, calling the victim by the name of the enemy throughout the whole ceremony.
Página 159 - I did not find my ftockings in the leaft damp. Indeed, from the nature of the gum, had it been for a period of as many months, the fame refult was to have been expected. ' After being thus far fuccefsful, I was greatly difappointed in my expectations with regard to their retaining their original fhape; for, on wearing them but a few times, they loft much of their firft neatnefs, the contractions of the gum being only equal to about feven eighths of its extenfion.
Página 156 - ... of two days. A much more expeditious mode, but ruinous to the vine, is cutting it in lengths of two feet, and placing under both ends vessels to receive the milk.