American Quarterly Review, Volumen12;Volumen17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1832 |
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... hundred hogs , as many cocoa - nuts , and an equal number of branches of plantains . Three men , who had been guilty of the enormous turpitude of eating cocoa - nuts with the old queen , were accordingly seized and led to the marae ...
... hundred hogs , as many cocoa - nuts , and an equal number of branches of plantains . Three men , who had been guilty of the enormous turpitude of eating cocoa - nuts with the old queen , were accordingly seized and led to the marae ...
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... hundred and fifty in all ; when , if uninjured , he is dismissed from further pu- nishment . A man who was speared while the Deputation were there , came off triumphant . The Australians , by their account , are inferior in mental ...
... hundred and fifty in all ; when , if uninjured , he is dismissed from further pu- nishment . A man who was speared while the Deputation were there , came off triumphant . The Australians , by their account , are inferior in mental ...
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... hundred and twenty feet square , besides a spacious veranda all round it ; and beyond this , there is a broad moat in which devotees wash their feet before they tread the holy place . We observed nothing particular within , except an ...
... hundred and twenty feet square , besides a spacious veranda all round it ; and beyond this , there is a broad moat in which devotees wash their feet before they tread the holy place . We observed nothing particular within , except an ...
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... hundred barbers obtain a livelihood by shaving the heads of these people prior to their bathing in the Jumna and the Ganges ; and as the British government im- poses a small sum on each , their superstition produces a revenue . This ...
... hundred barbers obtain a livelihood by shaving the heads of these people prior to their bathing in the Jumna and the Ganges ; and as the British government im- poses a small sum on each , their superstition produces a revenue . This ...
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... hundred years past , than the Germans or English , in refine- ment and pleasure , she has since been far outstripped in develop- ing the mind , and solidly ameliorating the condition of man . Not only has she not made any advancement in ...
... hundred years past , than the Germans or English , in refine- ment and pleasure , she has since been far outstripped in develop- ing the mind , and solidly ameliorating the condition of man . Not only has she not made any advancement in ...
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Página 245 - The parent storms ; the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions ; and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Página 233 - But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Página 244 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Página 367 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Página 367 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 245 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Página 437 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Página 245 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 244 - Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Página 357 - I imagine, any one will easily grant, that it would be impertinent to suppose the ideas of colours innate in a creature to whom God hath given sight, and a power to receive them by the eyes from external objects : and no less unreasonable would it be to attribute several truths to the impressions of nature and innate characters, when we may observe in ourselves faculties fit to attain as easy and certain knowledge of them as if they were originally imprinted on the mind.