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Page 123 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 68 - Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
Page 256 - Whilst the present exigency lasts," it was intimated to Colonel Pottinger, " you may apprise the Ameers that the article of the treaty with them, prohibiting the using of the Indus for the conveyance of military stores, must necessarily be suspended...
Page 447 - President, in the Chair. THE following were elected Members of the Society :— Mr.
Page 62 - The annals of savagery and superstition unhappily compose a large part of human literature ; but in what other volume shall we find, side by side with that melancholy record, psalmists who poured forth their sweet and solemn strains of meditative piety in the solitude of the hills or in green pastures and beside still waters ; prophets who lit up their beatific visions of a blissful future with the glow of an impassioned imagination ; historians who bequeathed to distant ages the scenes of a remote...
Page 256 - Indus for the conveyance of military stores, must necessarily be suspended during the course of operations undertaken for the permanent establishment of security to all those who are parties to that Treaty '. Shikarpur, Bukkur (Bakhar),2 and other places in Sind were occupied with equal disregard of solemn engagements.
Page 561 - Gaya, now in the Indian Section of the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington...
Page 315 - An Empire Builder of the Sixteenth Century. A summary account of the Political career of Zahir-ud-Din Muhammad, surnamed Babur.
Page 558 - ... become earth once more ; for it never could pass into any other kind. But when water is divided by fire or by air, it may be formed again and become one particle of fire and two of air : and the divisions of air may become for every particle broken up two particles of fire1. And again when fire is caught in air or in waters or in earth, a little in a great bulk, moving amid a rushing body, and contending with it is vanquished and broken up, two particles of fire combine into one...
Page 425 - Observer' at a salary of 100£ per annum, his duty being 'forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.