The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, Volume 12Black, Parbury, & Allen, 1821 |
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Page 157 - God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 254 - THEY also are to be had accursed, that presume to say, that every man shall be saved by the law or sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law, and the light of nature. For holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Page 452 - As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
Page 96 - He received us very pleasantly, and ordered us to sit before several governors and petty kings, who were waiting at his levee. We here, for the first time, disclosed our character and .object, — told him that we were missionaries, or 'propagators of religion;' that we wished to appear before the emperor, and present our sacred books, accompanied with a petition.
Page 596 - Sound sense (adds Foster) in the mouth of an enthusiast and a ruffian." Laud having proposed the rack, the matter was shortly debated at the board, and it ended in a reference to the judges, who unanimously resolved that the rack could not be legally used.
Page 97 - Something was now said about brother Colman's skill in medicine ; upon which the emperor once more opened his mouth, and said, " Let them proceed to the residence of my physician, the Portuguese priest ; let him examine whether they can be useful to me in that line, and report accordingly.
Page 159 - Further, it is salutary for supreme authority, even when its intentions are most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by its exposure to general comment. On the contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force.
Page 596 - Hawkins, we find it said that "the human mind under the pressure of calamity is easily seduced, and is liable in the alarm of danger to acknowledge indiscriminately a falsehood or a truth, as different agitations may prevail.
Page 97 - God, who is independent of the incidents of mortality, and that, besides him, there is no God ; and then with an air of indifference, perhaps disdain, he dashed it down to the ground ! Moung Zah .stooped forward, picked it up, and handed it to us. Moung Yo made a slight attempt to save us, by unfolding one of the volumes which composed our present, and displaying its beauty ; but his Majesty took no notice. Our fate was decided. After a few moments, Moung Zah interpreted his royal master's will,...
Page 76 - ... prejudicial to good order and military discipline." Upon which charge the Court came to the following decision : — " The Court having maturely weighed and considered the evidence...