Selections from Calcutta Gazettes: Showing the Political and Social Condition of the English in India, Volume 5Printed at the Military orphan Press by O. T. Cutter, 1869 - British |
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Page 557 - o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. Lord
Page 23 - 1817. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, does not require that the Officers of the Army should wear any other mourning on the present melancholy occasion than a black crape round their left arms with their uniforms. By command of His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief,
Page 406 - God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an Unicorn, he shall eat up the nations of his enemies, and shall break their bones and pierce them through with his arrows.
Page 269 - emaciate her body, by living voluntarily on pure flowers, roots, and fruits, but let her not, when her lord is deceased, even pronounce the name of another man." " Let her continue till death forgiving all injuries, performing harsh duties, avoiding every sensual pleasure, and cheerfully practising the incomparable rules of virtue which have been followed by such
Page 96 - An Act for the better management of the affairs of the East India Company as well in India as in Europe," and by a certain other Act of Parliament made and passed in the fortieth year of the reign of his
Page 300 - can I forget the generous band Who touched with human woe, redressive searched Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ? • Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans, "Where sickness pines, where thirst and hunger burns.
Page 96 - year of the reign of his said Majesty King George the Third, entitled " An Act for establishing further regulations for the Government of the British Territories in India, and the better administration of justice within the same.
Page 461 - When the ear heard him, then it blessed him ; And when the eye saw him, it gave witness of him. His body is buried in peace, But his name liveth evermore.
Page 407 - and the Unicorn shall come down with them, and the Bullocks with the Bulls, and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
Page 48 - crape hoods, shamoy shoes and gloves, and crape fans. Undress.—Dark Norwich crape. The Gentlemen to wear black cloth, without buttons on the sleeves or pockets, plain muslin or long lawn cravats and weepers, shamoy shoes and gloves, crape hatbands, and black swords and buckles. Undress.—Dark Grey frocks.