 | Edmund Burke - History - 1768 - 642 pages
...the tent where the ftolen goods lay concealed. The lama now mounted aftride on the bench, and foon carried it, or, as was commonly believed, it carried him to the very tent; where he ordered the daroaik to be produced. The demand was direilly complied with ; for it is in vain, in fuch cafes, to... | |
 | John Bell - Asia - 1788 - 472 pages
...lay concealed. The lama now mounted aflride on the bench, and foon carried it, or, as was commonly f believed, it carried him to the very tent; where he ordered the damafk to be produced. The demand was directly complied with ; for it is in vain, in fuch cafes, to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 600 pages
...carried it, or, as was commonlybelieved, it carried him to the very tent ; where he ordered the damafk to be produced. The demand was directly complied with ; for it is vain, in fuch cafes, to offer any excufe. I (hall now fubjoin a few obfervations on the Delay-Lama, or prieft... | |
 | John Bell, Lorenz Lange - Asia - 1806 - 710 pages
...the tent where the ftolen goods lay concealed. The lama now mounted aftride on the bench, and foon carried it, or, as was commonly believed, it carried him to the very tent ; where he ordered the damafk to be produced. The demand was directly complied with y for it is in vain, in fuch cafes, to... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1811 - 862 pages
...to the tent where the flolen goods lay concealed. The lama now mounted aflride the bench, and foon carried it, or, as was commonly believed, it carried him, to the very tent, where he ordered the damaik to be produced. The demand was direûly complied with : .for it is in vain, in fuch cafes, to... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1883 - 826 pages
...it pointed directly to the tent where the stolen goods were concealed. The Lama now mounted across the bench, and soon carried it, or, as was commonly...complied with ; for it is vain in such cases to offer any excuse." * Here we have not a wand, indeed, but a wooden object which turned in the direction, not... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1869 - 636 pages
...describes the process of finding a thief who had stolen some damask. The lama got on a four-legged bench, "and soon carried it, or, as was commonly believed, it carried him to the very tent, when he ordered the damask to be produced. The demand was directly complied with ; for it is in vain,... | |
 | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor - Primitive societies - 1883 - 490 pages
...the Lamas took a bench with four feet, and after turning it several times in different directions, nt last it pointed directly to the tent where the stolen...complied with: for it is vain in such cases to offer any excuse. 1 A more recent account from Central Africa may be placed as a pendant to this Asiatic account... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1883 - 924 pages
...it pointed directly to the tent where the stolen goods were concealed. The Lama now mounted across the bench, and soon carried it, or, as was commonly...complied with ; for it is vain in such cases to offer any excuse."* Here we have not a wand, indeed, but a wooden object which turned in the direction, not of... | |
 | 1883 - 884 pages
...it pointed directly to the tent where the stolen goods were concealed. The Lama now mounted across the bench, and soon carried it, or, as was commonly...complied with ; for it is vain in such cases to offer any excuse. "* Here we have not a wand, indeed, but a wooden object which turned in the direction, not... | |
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Lama now mounted astride the bench, and soon carried it, or, as was commonly believed, it carried him, to the very tent, where he ordered the damask to be produced. The demand was directly complied with : for it is vain in such cases to offer any... 
