The American Quarterly Review, Volumen4Carey, Lea & Carey, 1828 |
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... Civil Laws now in force in the Territory of Or- leans . Las Siete Partidas — Translated by L. M. Lisat and H. Carle- ton , Esquires . Civil Code of Louisiana . Louisiana Term Reports . IV . WARD'S MEXICO , Mexico in 1827. By H. G. Ward ...
... Civil Laws now in force in the Territory of Or- leans . Las Siete Partidas — Translated by L. M. Lisat and H. Carle- ton , Esquires . Civil Code of Louisiana . Louisiana Term Reports . IV . WARD'S MEXICO , Mexico in 1827. By H. G. Ward ...
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... civil society . In the very early accumulation of mankind into communities , in the vast works they so speedily undertook , we see civilization to be the natural state of man , and law and government to be the emanations of a wisdom ...
... civil society . In the very early accumulation of mankind into communities , in the vast works they so speedily undertook , we see civilization to be the natural state of man , and law and government to be the emanations of a wisdom ...
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... civil contracts , and in their preamble we read the date , described upon the same principle . Even public documents have been dis- covered ; and in the magnificent collection made by Drovetti , and purchased by the King of Sardinia ...
... civil contracts , and in their preamble we read the date , described upon the same principle . Even public documents have been dis- covered ; and in the magnificent collection made by Drovetti , and purchased by the King of Sardinia ...
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... civil and religious history of Egypt must draw from it invaluable illustrations . " " It is hardly possible to ... Civil ) contains articles belonging to the civil class , and to the several castes of Egypt ; among these are small ...
... civil and religious history of Egypt must draw from it invaluable illustrations . " " It is hardly possible to ... Civil ) contains articles belonging to the civil class , and to the several castes of Egypt ; among these are small ...
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... civil discord was at last composed by PSAMMITICUS I. Memorials of his reign are found in the obelisk now on Monte - Litorio , at Rome , and in the enormous columns of the first court of the palace of Karnac , at Thebes . § The rule of ...
... civil discord was at last composed by PSAMMITICUS I. Memorials of his reign are found in the obelisk now on Monte - Litorio , at Rome , and in the enormous columns of the first court of the palace of Karnac , at Thebes . § The rule of ...
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Página 274 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid ; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid ! FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY.
Página 274 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid!
Página 147 - They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...
Página 273 - But when of morn and eve the star beholds me on my knee, I feel, though thou art distant far, thy prayers ascend for me. Then on ! then on ! where duty leads, my course be onward still.
Página 266 - Committee, that it is the duty of this country to promote the interest and happiness of the native inhabitants of the British dominions in India, and thai such measures ought to be adopted, as may tend to the introduction among them of useful knowledge, and of religious and moral improvement.
Página 125 - Fakirs' houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas, biyals, and other discordant instruments ; while religious mendicants of every Hindoo sect, offering every conceivable deformity, which chalk, cow-dung, disease, matted locks, distorted limbs and disgusting and hideous attitudes of penance can show, literally line the principal streets on both sides.
Página 125 - The number of temples is very great, mostly small and stuck like shrines in the angles of the streets, and under the shadow of the lofty houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful, and...
Página 147 - I have taken some pains to inform myself, really appears to me the worst, both in the degrading notions which it gives of the Deity ; in the endless round of its burdensome ceremonies, which occupy the time and distract the thoughts, without either instructing or interesting its votaries ; in the filthy acts of uncleanness and cruelty not only permitted but enjoined, and inseparably interwoven with those ceremonies...
Página 146 - When a tiger springs on an elephant, the latter is generally able to shake him off under his feet, and then woe be to him. The elephant either kneels on him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty paces. The elephants, however, are often dreadfully torn ; and a large old tiger sometimes clings too fast to be thus dealt with.