The Bombay Quarterly Review, Volume 4Smith, Taylor, & Company, 1856 |
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... passing notice here . It is one of the leading features observable in the native temperament , that the sudden necessity of exhibiting intellectual energy for awhile seems to affect the reasoning pow- ers , and to induce a painful ...
... passing notice here . It is one of the leading features observable in the native temperament , that the sudden necessity of exhibiting intellectual energy for awhile seems to affect the reasoning pow- ers , and to induce a painful ...
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... passed by Major Jacob on the ordinary armament of our soldiery . " Man , " he says , " has been called a tool - making animal , and it is certain that the perfection of tools and machinery is a clear and certain mark of advancing ...
... passed by Major Jacob on the ordinary armament of our soldiery . " Man , " he says , " has been called a tool - making animal , and it is certain that the perfection of tools and machinery is a clear and certain mark of advancing ...
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... passed through it . Firearms with barrels so grooved were called " Rifles , " and sportsmen in all countries , whether hunting the tiger or sambur amidst the ghauts of India , the fox and wild goat in the defiles of Afghanistan , the ...
... passed through it . Firearms with barrels so grooved were called " Rifles , " and sportsmen in all countries , whether hunting the tiger or sambur amidst the ghauts of India , the fox and wild goat in the defiles of Afghanistan , the ...
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... passing reference to the once popular Prussian " Zundnadelgewehr , " or needle - prime musket , which is loaded at the breech , the charge being fired by a needle which passes through the cartridge , and strikes some percussion powder ...
... passing reference to the once popular Prussian " Zundnadelgewehr , " or needle - prime musket , which is loaded at the breech , the charge being fired by a needle which passes through the cartridge , and strikes some percussion powder ...
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... passing through a fluid , expe- rience less resistance than a body of equal magnitude and of any other form , and it is in proportion as they approach or depart from this peculiar configuration , that the projectiles thrown from our ...
... passing through a fluid , expe- rience less resistance than a body of equal magnitude and of any other form , and it is in proportion as they approach or depart from this peculiar configuration , that the projectiles thrown from our ...
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Page 409 - The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Page 379 - Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Page 380 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 379 - My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: for length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Page 367 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Page 236 - Heaven has brought me to the state you see ; And your condition may be soon like mine, The child of sorrow and of misery.
Page 388 - Almost all the relative duties of human life will be found more immediately, or more remotely, to arise out of the two great institutions of property and marriage. They constitute, preserve, and improve society. Upon their gradual improvement depends the progressive civilization of mankind ; on them rests the whole order of civil life.
Page 261 - If ye make your alms to appear, it is well; but if ye conceal them, and give them unto the poor, this will be better for you, and will atone for your sins: and GOD is well informed of that which ye do. The direction of them belongeth not unto thee; but GOD directeth whom he pleaseth. The good that ye shall give in alms shall redound unto yourselves; and ye shall not give unless out of desire of seeing the face of GOD.
Page 174 - The same rites which are now accomplished by the faithful Mussulman, were invented and practised by the superstition of the idolaters. At an awful distance they cast away their garments : seven times, with hasty steps, they encircled the Caaba, and kissed the black stone : seven times they visited and adored the adjacent mountains : seven times they threw stones into the valley of Mina ; and the pilgrimage was achieved, as at the present...
Page 323 - Among many subjects of importance none can have a stronger claim on our attention than that of education. It is one of our most sacred duties to be the means, as far as in us lies, of conferring upon natives of India those vast moral and material blessings which flow from the diffusion of useful knowledge, and which India may, under Providence, derive from her connection with England.