The Asiatic Annual Register, Or, A View of the History of Hindustan, and of the Politics, Commerce and Literature of Asia, Volumen3Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel J. Debrett, 1802 Includes: A history of British India, monthly chronicles of Asian events, accounts, travel literature, general essays, reviews of books on Asia, political analyses, poetry, and letters from readers. |
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Página 67 - The innundations have the same effect here as the periodical overflowings of the Nile in Egypt, and render the country one of the most fruitful in the world. In many parts the land produces three crops of grain in the year. All the fruits of India are found here in the greatest perfection, with many of those of China. No country in the East...
Página 15 - We had been seated little more than a quarter of an hour, when the folding doors that concealed the seat opened with a loud noise, and discovered his majesty ascending a flight of steps that led up to the throne from the inner apartment.
Página 30 - What is gained by proving superior learning, after a prize has been offered by some third person, must be considered as the acquisition of a scholar, and ought not in general to be divided among co-heirs : 3.
Página 31 - Scripture, in law, in sacred ordinances, in popular usage, a Wife is declared by the wise to be half the body of her Husband, equally sharing the fruit of pure and impure acts.
Página 4 - Know*ledge increases with commerce ; ancl as they are not shackled by any prejudice of casts, restricted to hereditary occupations, or forbidden from participating with strangers in every social bond, their advancement will, in all probability, be rapid. At present, so far from being in a state of intellectual darkness, although they have not explored the depths of science, nor reached to excellence in the finer arts, they yet h*ve an undeniable claim to the character of a civilized and well -Instructed...
Página 29 - But let no man give, or accept, an only son, since he must remain to raise up a progeny for the obsequies of ancestors. Nor let a woman give, or accept, a son, unless with the assent of her lord.
Página 117 - March, a • clear and uniform sky succeeds, seldom obscured either by fogs or clouds. For three months of this season a degree of cold is felt, far greater than is known to prevail in Europe.
Página 213 - It is farther agreed, that in all the cases of cession stipulated in the present treaty, there shall be allowed to the inhabitants, of whatever condition or nation they may be, a term of three years, to be computed from the notification of the definitive treaty of peace, for the purpose of disposing of their properties acquired...
Página 112 - ... of the tail, grows long and erect, but not harsh. The tail is composed of a prodigious quantity of long flowing glossy hair...
Página 4 - ... an undeniable claim to the character of a civilized and well -Instructed people. Their laws are wise, and pregnant with sound morality; their police is better regulated than in most European countries ; their natural disposition is friendly, and hospitable to strangers...