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The Asiatic Journal for November 1821

1821

With the above-mentioned permision granted to Padre Joseph Vaz by the King of Candy to mission every where without hindrance he immdiately visited the principal districts under the dominion of the Heretics ; and in the course of his travels coforted the Christians of Jarnapatim and Putulam whom he had always kept in view as the first fruits of his apostolical labours. [...] About this time two priests of the congregation of the Oratory arrived in Ceylon from Goa : they had been sent by the Prelate at the request of Padre Joseph Vaz in order to assist him in those extensive fields which notwitstanding the persecutions of the Hretics and Pagans we-e well disposed to receive the seed of the Gospel. [...] The Commandant (at the time of this undertaking) being an active and intelligent man ascribed it not only to the swamps :aid forests situated in the neighbourhood of the Fsg „kut to other causes and to that of the sulpha-. moms vapours with which the air was filled insomuch as to make the green grass apear yellow and a quantity of sulphurI.1 21. [...] " A man of resolution is he who will not deviate from hispurpose; although compelled to wander round the world like the hevens : like the 'phoenix he refrains umoved in the midst of storms.; not like the sparrow who falls by the wind of a pop-gun." The allusion in the first couplet V is to the belief of the Mahometans that the earth is stationary and that the heavens according to the Pto [...] And as to what he says that it is " a medley of the chastened narrative of the middle style of Addison the curious humour of the low style of Swift and the pompous diction of the splendid and flowery pc.."l'.1:21.! Of the Serenih Bunk if the Aureri soohyli.
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Pages
113
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120104
Segment Pages Author Actions
Biographical Memoir of Padre Joseph Vaz
417-424 unknown view
Excursion in Java
424-426 unknown view
“The Scrutator”
427-428 unknown view
Professor Stewart’s Reply to Gulchin
428-428 unknown view
On a Free Press in India
429-431 unknown view
Strictures on Gulchin’s Translation of the Seventh Book of the Anvari Soohyly
431-438 unknown view
Remarks on Mr. Hume’s Speech
438-443 unknown view
Biographical Memoir of Mr. Charles Chaston Asscy
443-445 unknown view
Observations on the Suggestions of Carnticus on the Conversion of the Hindus
446-449 unknown view
Indian Manufactures
449-451 unknown view
Some Account of Baba Hurribol a Miraculous Physician
451-452 unknown view
Review of Books
452-456 unknown view
Debate at the East-India House
457-484 unknown view
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence
485-488 unknown view
Asiatic Intelligence
489-515 unknown view
Home Intelligence
515-520 unknown view

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