Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volumul 5,Edițiile 18-19

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Pagina 6 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Pagina 6 - Do not swear at all; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee.
Pagina 33 - If it is proved that no contemporary miracle wjll bear inquiry, is it not probable that the miracles of the past, which have all been performed in popular gatherings, would equally present their share of illusion, if it were possible to criticise them in detail ? It is not, then, in the name of this or that philosophy, but in the name of universal experience, that we banish miracles from history. We do not say,
Pagina 72 - Ludi, which we know to have been adjusted to fingers' breadths, the angula is '72976 of an inch. Mr. Thomas makes it slightly less, or '72289. The mean of our measurements is '72632 of an inch, which may be adopted as the real value of the Indian finger, or angula, as I found the actual measure of many native fingers to be invariably under three-quarters of an inch. According to this value the hasta, or cubit, of 24 angulas would be equal to 17'43168 inches, and the dhanu, or " bow," of 96 angulas...
Pagina 19 - That he be hanged by the neck until he is dead and may God have mercy on your soul.
Pagina 40 - ... the Myth, in its original form, is not the conscious and intentional invention of an individual but a production of the common consciousness of a people or religious circle, which an individual does indeed first enunciate, but which meets with belief for the very reason that such individual is but the organ of this universal conviction.
Pagina 71 - Brand Marks on Cattle. By J. De Alwis. — Notes on the Occurrence of a rare Eagle new to Ceylon ; and other interesting or rare birds. By S. Bligh, Esq., Kotmalé. — Extracts from the Records of the Dutch Government in Ceylon.
Pagina 33 - Observation, which has never once been falsified, teaches us that miracles never happen but in times and countries in which they are believed, and before persons disposed to believe them. No miracle ever occurred in the presence of men capable of testing its miraculous character. Neither common people nor men of the world are able to do this. It requires great precautions and long habits of scientific research. In our days have we not seen almost all respectable people dupes of the grossest frauds...
Pagina 67 - Society proposed to institute and promote enquiries into the History, Religion, Literature, Arts and Social condition of the present and former inhabitants of this Island, with its Geology, Mineralogy, its Climate and Meteorology, its Botany and Zoology...
Pagina 33 - ... that the miracles of the past, which have all been performed in popular gatherings, would equally present their share of illusion if it were possible to criticise them in detail? It is not, then, in the name of this or that philosophy, but in the name of universal experience, that we banish miracle from history. We do not say, " Miracles are impossible." * We say, " Up to this time a miracle has never been proved.

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