Around the World: A Narrative of a Voyage in the East India Squadron, Under Commodore George C. ReadC. S. Francis, 1840 |
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... Bala - Ghauts , often appearing three or four thousand feet high , and assuming from their basaltic nature the shapes of turrets and forts , enlivened with ver- GOA ROADSTEAD . 5 dure , stretching far along the 4 HINDOSTAN .
... Bala - Ghauts , often appearing three or four thousand feet high , and assuming from their basaltic nature the shapes of turrets and forts , enlivened with ver- GOA ROADSTEAD . 5 dure , stretching far along the 4 HINDOSTAN .
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... appeared to be crowned with one of the many chapels or imposing con- vents that always mark the vicinity of Portu- guese settlements ; and of which there were for- merly two hundred within the thirty miles square of Goa . At the farther ...
... appeared to be crowned with one of the many chapels or imposing con- vents that always mark the vicinity of Portu- guese settlements ; and of which there were for- merly two hundred within the thirty miles square of Goa . At the farther ...
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... appeared as if they had once formed the central square of the city . One pile of the ruins was designated as the site of the inquisition . This , unfortunately , we had not time to rummage over and examine for ourselves ; but it is said ...
... appeared as if they had once formed the central square of the city . One pile of the ruins was designated as the site of the inquisition . This , unfortunately , we had not time to rummage over and examine for ourselves ; but it is said ...
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... appeared like a tiny boy ; but when we met him near the centre of the grand nave , he was larger than eith- er of us . This person appeared to be an attend- ant , and at our request returned speedily to pro- cure water for us . Thus ...
... appeared like a tiny boy ; but when we met him near the centre of the grand nave , he was larger than eith- er of us . This person appeared to be an attend- ant , and at our request returned speedily to pro- cure water for us . Thus ...
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... appeared , with their escorts , prompted by the curiosity that pervades the tender sex in every country - to see the de- serted stranger to hear his story and , with kind interjections , to assure him of their friendly influence . It ...
... appeared , with their escorts , prompted by the curiosity that pervades the tender sex in every country - to see the de- serted stranger to hear his story and , with kind interjections , to assure him of their friendly influence . It ...
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Acheen American anchor appeared Archipelago arms arrived Badang bamboo Battas bazaar beautiful boats BOOKIT called Canton captain Wyman China Chinese coast Colombo commodore deck Dutch east eastern edict English European extensive factories Fan-qui favourable feast feet flag flowers foreign frigate fruits gate gongs Government Hill grand harbour head hill Hindoo Hong merchants honour hundred India interesting island John Adams junks kind land Macao Malacca Malays mandarin ment miles missionaries moon morning Muckie natives nearly nutmeg Oahu occupied officers Old Goa once opium Palembang passage passed pepper piculs Pinang port Portuguese priests Quallah Battoo Raffles Institute rajah rice rich river sail seen sent settlement ship shore side sight silver Singapore Sir Stamford Raffles soon Soosoo standing stood stranger Sumatra tain temple thence tion trade trees vessels wall Whampoa wind
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Seite 95 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick, with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man ; the natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire.
Seite 138 - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit ; And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Seite 67 - And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win." " But what good came of it at last ?" Quoth little Peterkin. " Why, that I cannot tell," said he,
Seite 343 - Man through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside; His home the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
Seite 110 - Come, bright improvement! on the car of time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime ; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore.
Seite 322 - BRIGHT flag at yonder tapering mast. Fling out your field of azure blue ; Let star and stripe be westward cast, And point as Freedom's eagle flew! Strain home ! O lithe and quivering spars ! Point home, my country's flag of stars ! The wind blows fair, the vessel feels The pressure of the rising breeze, And, swiftest of a thousand keels.
Seite 1 - OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes that hardly served at most To guard their master 'gainst a post : Yet round the world the blade has been, To see whatever could be seen. Returning from his...
Seite 292 - The empire, in ruling and restraining the barbarians beyond its boundaries, gives to them always fixed rules and regulations. Upon those who are obedient, it lavishes its rich favours ; but to the rebellious and disobedient, it displays its terrors.
Seite 241 - Afar in the ocean, towards the extremities of the north-west, There is a nation, or country, called England : The clime is frigid, and you are compelled to approach the fire ; The houses are so lofty that you may pluck the stars. The pious inhabitants respect the ceremonies of worship, And the virtuous among them ever read the sacred books.
Seite 184 - ... that it may be burnt and destroyed, and that thus the evil may be entirely extirpated. There must not be the smallest atom concealed or withheld. " At the same time let these foreigners give a bond, written jointly in the foreign and Chinese languages, making a declaration to this effect...