Ceylon and the Cingalese: Their History, Government, and Religion ... and Capabilities of the Island ...

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W. Shoberl, 1850
 

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Seite 7 - ... led to the appointment of a committee of the House of Commons to investigate the affairs of the colony.
Seite 43 - There is a language which is the root (of all languages) ; men and brahmas at the commencement of the kalpa, who never before heard or uttered a human accent, and even the supreme Budhas, spoke it ; it is Magadhi.
Seite 44 - Hitta, life and intelligence, the most learned of them seem to consider as identical ; — seated in the heart, radiating from thence to different parts of the body, like heat from a fire ; — uncreated, without beginning, at least, that they know of; — capable of being modified by a variety of circumstances, like the breath in different musical instruments ; — and, like a vapour, capable of passing from one body to another ; and, like a flame, liable to be extinguished and totally annihilated.
Seite 92 - Here, it may be remarked, that when the relic was taken, the effect of its capture was astonishing and almost beyond the comprehension of the enlightened: — "Now (the people said) the English are indeed masters of the country; for they who possess the relic have a right to govern four kingdoms: this , for 2000 years, is the first time the relic was ever taken from us...
Seite 286 - The magnificent city of Anuradhapoora is refulgent from the numerous temples and palaces whose golden pinnacles glitter in the sky. The sides of its streets are strewed with black sand, and the middle is sprinkled with white sand ; they are spanned by arches...
Seite 92 - Here it may be remarked, that when the relic was taken the effect of its capture was astonishing, and almost beyond the comprehension of the enlightened ; for now they said, the English are indeed masters of the country ; for they who possess the relic have a right to govern four kingdoms : this, for 2,000 years, is the first time the relic was ever taken from us.
Seite 166 - I've seen the udumber tree in flower; White plumage on the crow; And fishes' footsteps o'er the deep, I've seen through ebb and flow; If man it is who this asserts, His word you may believe; But all that woman says, distrust, She speaks but to deceive.
Seite 144 - Arabia; and that after a separation of 200 years, Adam was, on his repentance, conducted by the angel Gabriel to a mountain near Mecca, where he found and knew his wife, the mountain being thence named Arafat; and that he afterwards retired with her to Ceylon, where they continued to propagate their species.
Seite 82 - To the virtuous all is pure. Therefore think not that going unclothed, fasting, or lying on the ground, can make the impure pure, for the mind will still remain the same.
Seite 278 - Davy states that there is scarcely one disease of the skin, which is mentioned in Doctor Bateman's Synopsis, that he has not seen an instance of amongst the Cingalese. Fever, ague, diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera morbus (which latter proved most fatal in Jaffnapatam during 1846), and diseases of the brain f- are likewise extremely prevalent, and attack alike the native and European. There is an extraordinary feature in the fevers of Ceylon, as the symptoms differ materially in the highlands and lowlands,...

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