The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Volúmenes16-17Colombo Apothecaries Company, 1901 Contains the Society's Proceedings. |
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Página 197 - The design of the Society is to institute and promote inquiries into the History, Religions, Languages, Literature, Arts, and Social Condition of the present and former Inhabitants of the Island, with its Geology and Mineralogy, its Climate and Meteorology, its Botany and Zoology.
Página 65 - They insisted that the King should have no intercourse with any other power whatever; and that he should deliver up all foreigners or subjects of other princes, who should happen to come into his dominions. All cinnamon which grew on the coasts was to be considered as exclusively Dutch property; and the natives, by way of special privilege, were allowed quietly to cut and carry it to the several Dutch factories pn the island.
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Página 152 - ... into pearls. This opinion, which obtained all over the east, is thus charmingly alluded to by Moore : * And precious the tear as that rain from the sky, Which turns into pearls as it falls in the sea.