The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record

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Oriental Institute, 1901
Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.
 

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Página 198 - THEOSOPHY, OR PSYCHOLOGICAL RELIGION. The Gifford Lectures, delivered before the University of Glasgow in 1892. Crown 8vo., los. 6d. THREE LECTURES ON THE VEDANTA PHILOSOPHY, delivered at the Royal Institution in March, 1894.
Página 409 - OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Printed from the Fifth and last Edition. With a Commentary by HM BATSON, and a Biographical Introduction by ED Ross.
Página 63 - It is in addition permitted to French missionaries to rent and purchase land in all the provinces, and to erect buildings thereon at pleasure...
Página 53 - Sir (said he, eagerly), it is not an improvement ; they object, that the old method drew together a number of spectators. Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties ; the public was gratified by a procession ; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away ?
Página 253 - WHEN silent time, wi' lightly foot, Had trod on thirty years, I sought again my native land Wi' mony hopes and fears. Wha kens gin the dear friends I left May still continue mine? Or gin I e'er again shall taste The joys I left langsyne? As I drew near my ancient pile, My heart beat a' the way; Ilk place I passed seemed yet to speak O' some dear former day : — Those days that followed me afar, Those happy days o' mine, Whilk made me think the present joys A
Página 389 - Illustrated. 6d. net. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900). Letters from the Front By AG HALES. 6s. Canaries and Cage-Birds, The Illustrated Book of. With 56 Coloured Plates, 35s. ; half-morocco, £2 5s.
Página 404 - But the contest without a piano was like the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out.
Página 14 - The Sultan ordered all the inhabitants to quit the place (Delhi), and upon some delay being evinced he made a proclamation stating that what person soever, being an inhabitant of that city, should be found in any of its houses or streets should receive condign punishment.
Página 45 - I then often saw the unhappy victim of swch barbarous work brought out from the hospital three or four times to receive the remainder of his punishment, too severe to be borne without danger of death at one flogging ; and sometimes I have witnessed this prolonged torture applied for the avowed purpose of adding to its severity. On these occasions it was terrible to see the new tender skin of the scarcely healed back again laid bare to receive the lash. I declare that, accustomed as I was to such...
Página 254 - Nae weel-kenned face I saw, Till Donald tottered to the door, Wham I left in his prime, And grat to see the lad return He bore about langsyne. I ran to ilka dear friend's room, As if to find them there ; I knew where ilk ane used to sit, And hung o'er mony a chair ; Till soft remembrance threw a veil Across these een o' mine — I closed the door, and sobbed aloud, To think on auld langsyne.

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