Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Volumen6

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Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, Old College, Nungumbaukum., 1861
 

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Página 230 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Página 230 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
Página 207 - And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people : and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient...
Página 207 - And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the Lord.
Página 330 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Página 127 - No. 38. 1 have the honor to report, for the information of His Excellency the Governor in Council, that Mr.
Página 45 - Some broad steps (now mostly ruined) lead to the base of the pile round the base to a moulding on which are pilasters about four feet high and six feet asunder; these have plain capitals, and support a cornice marked with parallel lines and headings. The whole of this may be seven or eight feet high, from the uppermost step to the top of the cornice. The building then retires, leaving a ledge of a foot or two broad, from which rises a perpendicular wall about six feet high ; about a foot above the...
Página 133 - Mud Bay is a place that, I believe, few can parallel in the world. It lies on the shore of St Andrea, about half a league out in the sea, and is open to the wide ocean, and has neither island nor bank to break off the force of the billows, which come rolling with great violence on all other parts of the coast in the...
Página 295 - By whom and by what means these wonderful efforts have been accomplished is a mystery sunk too deep in the abyss of time ever to be clearly revealed.
Página 134 - ... feet in some instances, when the cone bursts, throwing up immense quantities of soft soapy mud, and blue mud of considerable consistence in the form of boulders, with fresh water debris of vegetable matter, decayed and in some instances green and fresh- These bubbles are not confined to the seaboard, but are, I am inclined to think, both more active and numerous in the bed of the roads with the flagstaff bearing from ENE to the south, until it bears NE by N.

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