The Literary Panorama and National Register, Volume 5C. Taylor, 1817 |
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... temple straight downwards : they are also stained with blue . These incisions being made on the faces of both sexes when they are about twelve mouths old , the dyeing ma- terial which is inserted in them becomes scarcely visible as they ...
... temple straight downwards : they are also stained with blue . These incisions being made on the faces of both sexes when they are about twelve mouths old , the dyeing ma- terial which is inserted in them becomes scarcely visible as they ...
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... Temple , Statute Law , Williams ' Justice , & c . Flora Tunbrigensis ; or , A Catalogue of Plants growing wild in the neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells , arranged according to I 12mo , Ss . MEDICINE AND CHIRURGERY . Surgical Observations ...
... Temple , Statute Law , Williams ' Justice , & c . Flora Tunbrigensis ; or , A Catalogue of Plants growing wild in the neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells , arranged according to I 12mo , Ss . MEDICINE AND CHIRURGERY . Surgical Observations ...
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... Temple consecrated to the worship of the Flindoos . The Mahometans settled in Russia , have established schools in each of their vil- lages , and in the towns they have also schools of instruction for their daughters . The merchants ...
... Temple consecrated to the worship of the Flindoos . The Mahometans settled in Russia , have established schools in each of their vil- lages , and in the towns they have also schools of instruction for their daughters . The merchants ...
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... temples with a garland of flowers , and clothed him in new apparel , he repeated the incantations prescribed by the Shaster ; theu descend- ing into the river , and holding uų his son in his arm , he said , " O Mother Ganges this child ...
... temples with a garland of flowers , and clothed him in new apparel , he repeated the incantations prescribed by the Shaster ; theu descend- ing into the river , and holding uų his son in his arm , he said , " O Mother Ganges this child ...
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... temple , and the name of the donor is en- graved on one of the links made solid for that purpose ; the height of the precipice is about 20 feet , and many holes are worn in the face of the rock by the feet of the nu- merous pilgrims who ...
... temple , and the name of the donor is en- graved on one of the links made solid for that purpose ; the height of the precipice is about 20 feet , and many holes are worn in the face of the rock by the feet of the nu- merous pilgrims who ...
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Page 439 - But hark! — that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm! Arm! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear...
Page 439 - Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell; But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!
Page 439 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 439 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!' And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering
Page 439 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...
Page 439 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street: On with the dance! let joy be unconfined ; No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
Page 419 - It remains for a free state to create a new era in history, and to erect a work more stupendous, more magnificent, and more beneficial than has hitherto been achieved by the human race.
Page 897 - We found the opening of the chamber which we now approached, guarded by a trench of unknown depth, and wide enough to require a good leap/ The first Arab jumped the ditch and we all followed him. The passage we entered was extremely small, and so low in some places as to oblige us to crawl flat on the ground, and almost always on our hands and knees. The intricacies of its windings resembled a labyrinth, and it terminated at length in a chamber much smaller than that which we had left, but, like...
Page 29 - The Narrative of Robert Adams, a Sailor, who was wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Year 1810, was detained three Years in Slavery by the Arabs of the Great Desert, and resided several Months in the City of Tombuctoo. With a Map, Notes, and an Appendix.
Page 945 - I am too well convinced of the loyalty and good sense of the great body of his Majesty's subjects, to believe them capable of being perverted by the arts which are employed to seduce them ; but I am determined to omit no precautions for preserving the public peace, and for counteracting the designs of the disaffected...