The Asiatic Quarterly Review, Volume 3, Issue 5

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T. Fisher Urwin, 1887 - Asia
 

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Page 36 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Page 28 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan ; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Page 26 - Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears ; And now, divided into four main streams, Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm And country...
Page 26 - Southward through Eden went a river large, Nor changed his course, but through the shaggy hill Passed underneath ingulfed...
Page 48 - Each legend of the shadowy strand Now wakes a vision blest ; As little children lisp, and tell of Heaven, So thoughts beyond their thought to those high Bards were given. And these are ours : Thy partial grace The tempting treasure lends : These relics of a guilty race Are forfeit to Thy friends ; What seemed an idol hymn, now breathes of Thee, Tuned by Faith's ear to some celestial melody.
Page iii - THIS series is intended to meet the demand for accessible information on the ordinary conditions and the current terms of our political life. The series...
Page 256 - ... presented for the reader in their philosophical relation to each other as well as to universal history. It is the plan of the writers of the different volumes to enter into the real life of the peoples, and to bring them before the reader as they actually lived, labored, and struggled— as they studied and wrote, and as they amused themselves.
Page iii - THE NATIONAL BUDGET; THE NATIONAL DEBT ; TAXES AND RATES. By AJ WILSON. THE STATE IN RELATION TO LABOUR. By W.
Page xi - OF HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED. Being a Handbook to Marriage. By a Graduate in the University of Matrimony.
Page 257 - Work of the National Association for Supplying Female Medical Aid to the Women of India.

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