Journal of the Department of Letters, 第 1 巻

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Calcutta University Press, 1920
Contains contributions on various subjects, notably India, Buddhism, ancient chronology, etc.

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53 ページ - In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
266 ページ - In considering this very interesting question, we immediately ask ourselves what is a contract? Is a grant a contract? "A contract is a compact between two or more parties, and is either executory or executed. An executory contract is one in which a party binds himself to do or not to do a particular thing; such was the law under which the conveyance was made by the governor.
227 ページ - According to him," the king, the minister, the country, the fort, the treasury, the army and the friend and the enemy are the elements of sovereignty...
316 ページ - Indians which contribute to prevent the occurrence of famine among them ; for whereas among other nations it is usual, in the contests of war, to ravage the soil, and thus to reduce it to an uncultivated waste, among the Indians, on the contrary, by whom husbandmen are regarded as a class that is sacred and inviolable, the tillers of the soil, even when battle is raging in their neighbourhood, are undisturbed by any sense of danger...
214 ページ - The word international. It must be acknowledged, is a new one ; though, it is hoped, sufficiently analogous and intelligible. It is calculated to express, in a more significant way, the branch of law which goes commonly under the name of the law of nations...
194 ページ - There is little doubt that India must have been one of the earliest centres of human civilisation and it seems natural to suppose that the strange un-Semitic un-Aryan people who came from the East to civilize the West were of Indian origin, specially when we see with our eyes how very Indian the Sumerians were in type.
218 ページ - Zeus that had published me that edict; not such are the laws set among men by the Justice who dwells with the gods below; nor 11 Euripides, Orestes, pp. 546-51. deemed I that thy decrees were of such force, that a mortal could override the unwritten and unfailing statutes of heaven. For their life is not of to-day or yesterday, but from all time, and no man knows when they were first put forth.
128 ページ - We need not, however, expect to find the proofs in Europe ; our nearest relatives in the animal kingdom are confined to hot, almost to tropical climates, and it is in such countries that we are most likely to find the earliest traces of the human race.
317 ページ - ... country, or cut down their trees or plants." Thus Yuan Chwang also bears ample testimony to the humanity of Indian warfare — " Petty rivalries and wars are not unfrequent," says he, " but they do little harm to the country at large."1 Thus, the ancient Hindus clearly understood the modern international term,
309 ページ - Christ (who, it is said, had fallen on their knees and burst into a pious hymn at the first view of the Holy City), on the capture of that city. Murder was mercy, rape tenderness, simple plunder the mere assertion of the conqueror's right. Children were seized by their legs, some of them plucked from their mothers' breasts and dashed against the walls, or whirled from the battlements.

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