The Quarterly Review, Band 122William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1867 |
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... carried there in their ships from the Malabar coast . In those days the Portuguese were in close communication with Ormuz and the coast of Arabia , and the mouth of the Persian Gulf ; and cholera was more likely to be carried that short ...
... carried there in their ships from the Malabar coast . In those days the Portuguese were in close communication with Ormuz and the coast of Arabia , and the mouth of the Persian Gulf ; and cholera was more likely to be carried that short ...
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... carried in ships to Batavia , nearly as great a distance as it has ever been conveyed in that way ; for though it has been carried as far as the Mauritius , it has never gone on to the Cape of Good Hope . We find a traveller attacked ...
... carried in ships to Batavia , nearly as great a distance as it has ever been conveyed in that way ; for though it has been carried as far as the Mauritius , it has never gone on to the Cape of Good Hope . We find a traveller attacked ...
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... carried on by the French and English for ascendency . Madras accounts first mention the disease in 1756 at Arcot , about fifty miles inland from the Presidency town . The ailment seems to have adhered to the district for a long time ...
... carried on by the French and English for ascendency . Madras accounts first mention the disease in 1756 at Arcot , about fifty miles inland from the Presidency town . The ailment seems to have adhered to the district for a long time ...
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... carried off a number of the inhabitants of Calcutta , it is now raging with the greatest fury at Sylhet . Many of the Zemindars and Naibs having fallen victims to it , the others have in a body deserted the town . ' * The rumour men ...
... carried off a number of the inhabitants of Calcutta , it is now raging with the greatest fury at Sylhet . Many of the Zemindars and Naibs having fallen victims to it , the others have in a body deserted the town . ' * The rumour men ...
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... carried off 20,000 men in a few days ; but , with the apparent capriciousness which distinguishes it , spared a village only a few miles distant . We have no account of the cholera spreading on that occasion . It appears to have abated ...
... carried off 20,000 men in a few days ; but , with the apparent capriciousness which distinguishes it , spared a village only a few miles distant . We have no account of the cholera spreading on that occasion . It appears to have abated ...
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Seite 82 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying : " Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." " Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.
Seite 443 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Seite 235 - tis a sin To care for such unfruitful things; One good-sized diamond in a pin — Some, not so large, in rings — A ruby, and a pearl, or so, Will do for me — I laugh at show. My dame should dress in cheap attire (Good, heavy silks are never dear); I own perhaps I might desire Some shawls of true cashmere, Some marrowy crapes of China silk, Like wrinkled skins on scalded milk.
Seite 234 - That I may call my own; And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun. Plain food is quite enough for me; Three courses are as good as ten; If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen!
Seite 229 - Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser.
Seite 63 - ... he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Seite 64 - I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track ; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
Seite 76 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too.
Seite 187 - ... shall suffer from henceforth no torches nor candles, tapers, or images of wax, to be set afore any image or picture, but only two lights upon the high altar, before the sacrament, which for the signification that Christ is the very true light of the world, they shall suffer to remain still...
Seite 64 - The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter 'Little Prig; Bun replied, 'You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back...