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Pagina 86
... direction intended . To have their limbs free , they " gird up their loins , " and their tattooing becomes very apparent , as may be observed in the engraving BURMESE GAME OF FOOTBALL . on the opposite page . 86 BURMA , PAST AND PRESENT .
... direction intended . To have their limbs free , they " gird up their loins , " and their tattooing becomes very apparent , as may be observed in the engraving BURMESE GAME OF FOOTBALL . on the opposite page . 86 BURMA , PAST AND PRESENT .
Pagina 123
... direction at their outset . " I have not yet received Captain Sladen's report , and regret to hear that the delay has been occa- sioned by that officer's ill health . " The project of a line of railway from Rangoon to Prome has already ...
... direction at their outset . " I have not yet received Captain Sladen's report , and regret to hear that the delay has been occa- sioned by that officer's ill health . " The project of a line of railway from Rangoon to Prome has already ...
Pagina 131
... direction are closely associated with the Buddhist religion . I will therefore deal with it in the next chapter . I might dwell upon many other matters ; but as an official memorandum on my Administration of British Burma is entered in ...
... direction are closely associated with the Buddhist religion . I will therefore deal with it in the next chapter . I might dwell upon many other matters ; but as an official memorandum on my Administration of British Burma is entered in ...
Pagina 149
... direction an explanation may be found of much that appears at first sight bizarre and unnecessary in our legend of the Buddha . The idea that a man should enter his mother's womb in the form of a white elephant seems a most grotesque ...
... direction an explanation may be found of much that appears at first sight bizarre and unnecessary in our legend of the Buddha . The idea that a man should enter his mother's womb in the form of a white elephant seems a most grotesque ...
Pagina 156
... direction of the east . Bishop Bigandet , remarking on the preference shown by Gautama to the east over the other three points of the compass , thinks it might , possibly , have reference to the tradition universally prevailing ...
... direction of the east . Bishop Bigandet , remarking on the preference shown by Gautama to the east over the other three points of the compass , thinks it might , possibly , have reference to the tradition universally prevailing ...
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Burma Past and Present: With Personal Reminiscences of the Country, Volumul 2 Albert Fytche Vizualizare completă - 1878 |
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Pagina 15 - XVIII. THE NATURE OF LIGHT. With a General Account of Physical Optics. By Dr. Eugene Lommel, Professor of Physics in the University of Erlangen.
Pagina 15 - II. Physics and Politics ; or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection " and " Inheritance
Pagina 16 - XXIII. Studies in Spectrum Analysis. By J. Norman Lockyer, FRS With six photographic Illustrations of Spectra, and numerous engravings on Wood.
Pagina 9 - MOCKLER, E. — A Grammar of the Baloochee Language, as it is spoken in Makran (Ancient Gedrosia), in the Persia-Arabic and Roman characters.
Pagina 13 - VYNER (Lady Mary). Every day a Portion. Adapted from the Bible and the Prayer Book, for the Private Devotions of those living in Widowhood. Collected and edited by Lady Mary Vyner. Square crown 8vo. Cloth extra, price 5$.
Pagina 14 - YOUMANS (Eliza A.) — AN ESSAY ON THE CULTURE OF THE OBSERVING POWERS OF CHILDREN, especially in connection with the Study of Botany. Edited, with Notes and a Supplement, by Joseph Payne, FCP , Author of ' Lectures on the Science and Art of Education,
Pagina 1 - BROOKE (WG), MA The Public Worship Regulation Act. With a Classified Statement of its Provisions, Notes, and Index. Third Edition, revised and corrected. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 3$. 6d. Six Privy Council Judgments— 1850-1872.
Pagina 2 - Phantasmion. A Fairy Tale. With an Introductory Preface, by the Right Hon. Lord Coleridge, of Ottery St. Mary. A New Edition. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, Js.
Pagina 11 - Our Place among Infinities: A Series of Essays contrasting our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around us.
Pagina 12 - Memoriam." (Dedicated by Permission to the Poet-Laureate.) Fcap. 8vo, 2s. The Education of the Human Race. Translated from the German of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Fcap.