The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Bind 135A. Constable, 1872 |
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Side 3
... interest to remark that in the famous Kitab - el - Fihrist , recently pub- lished , we find the Chinese commander - in - chief in the ninth century to have been named Sir - aspah , which is Persian for head of the army . ' we may well ...
... interest to remark that in the famous Kitab - el - Fihrist , recently pub- lished , we find the Chinese commander - in - chief in the ninth century to have been named Sir - aspah , which is Persian for head of the army . ' we may well ...
Side 5
... interest and character ' from Rustician's original notes , pub- lished by the Geographical Society of Paris in 1824 ; and also in some instances he has borrowed from other versions that were made from that text ( apparently during Marco ...
... interest and character ' from Rustician's original notes , pub- lished by the Geographical Society of Paris in 1824 ; and also in some instances he has borrowed from other versions that were made from that text ( apparently during Marco ...
Side 12
... interest of the route , however , commences at the Oxus ; and here , therefore , we pro- pose to consider the movements of the travellers in more detail . and the important political results that may accrue from a continuous water ...
... interest of the route , however , commences at the Oxus ; and here , therefore , we pro- pose to consider the movements of the travellers in more detail . and the important political results that may accrue from a continuous water ...
Side 20
... interest regard- ing it — an interest which has recently culminated in the mission sent by the Governor - General to open friendly relations with the ruler of the country . This mission , it 20 Jan. Yule's Edition of Marco Polo .
... interest regard- ing it — an interest which has recently culminated in the mission sent by the Governor - General to open friendly relations with the ruler of the country . This mission , it 20 Jan. Yule's Edition of Marco Polo .
Side 21
... interest , and his assistants , Messrs . Shaw and Henderson , who were respectively charged with the geogra- phical and natural history departments of the mission , have also contributed very valuable reports . At the same time , much ...
... interest , and his assistants , Messrs . Shaw and Henderson , who were respectively charged with the geogra- phical and natural history departments of the mission , have also contributed very valuable reports . At the same time , much ...
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Side 289 - Like a tale of little meaning tho' the words are strong; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil; Till they perish and they suffer— some...
Side 378 - And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, 'passing rich with forty pounds a year?' Ah! no; a shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike him, feeds this little flock : A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask ; The rest he gives to loves and labours light, To fields the morning, and to feasts the night; None better...
Side 105 - So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. 26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God...
Side 380 - I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause. To such I render more than mere respect, Whose actions say that they respect themselves.
Side 575 - But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Side 491 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war...
Side 380 - A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again : pronounce a text, Cry, hem ! and, reading -what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.
Side 105 - And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
Side 329 - British empire, a public institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life.
Side 570 - An act to permit foreigners to be enlisted, and to serve as officers and soldiers in her Majesty's forces...