Continental India: Travelling Sketches and Historical Recollections [1822-1835] Illustrating the Antiquity, Religion and Manners of the Hindoos, the Extent of British Conquests, and the Progress of Missionary Operations, Volym 1T. Ward & Company, 1840 |
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Sida xviii
... Madras beach - First Sunday among heathens - Degra- dation of man since the Fall - First impressions — A visit to the Lions— College of Fort St. George - Theatrical pantheon - Police cutcherry- Dr. Bell's Madras system - A pagoda built ...
... Madras beach - First Sunday among heathens - Degra- dation of man since the Fall - First impressions — A visit to the Lions— College of Fort St. George - Theatrical pantheon - Police cutcherry- Dr. Bell's Madras system - A pagoda built ...
Sida 64
... the bay of Bengal . Again we crossed the Line , and sailed along the spice - cultured isle towards Madras . Nine hundred miles in circumference is the extent of this island , which is situated near to 64 CONTINENTAL INDIA .
... the bay of Bengal . Again we crossed the Line , and sailed along the spice - cultured isle towards Madras . Nine hundred miles in circumference is the extent of this island , which is situated near to 64 CONTINENTAL INDIA .
Sida 72
... Madras from the roads is imposing and grand . Fort St. George lies upon the margin of the coast , and its walls are washed by the flowing tide . The buildings along the shore have all a stately aspect , and seem rather the palaces of ...
... Madras from the roads is imposing and grand . Fort St. George lies upon the margin of the coast , and its walls are washed by the flowing tide . The buildings along the shore have all a stately aspect , and seem rather the palaces of ...
Sida 73
... Madras is situated on an extended plain . A low range of hills , to the north , rises in the dis- tance , extending to the interior ; and another line of low mountains , which we have already singled out from Sadras , reaches southward ...
... Madras is situated on an extended plain . A low range of hills , to the north , rises in the dis- tance , extending to the interior ; and another line of low mountains , which we have already singled out from Sadras , reaches southward ...
Sida 76
... Within the tropics , the grey dawn , that isthmus between day and night , spreads itself over only a brief space of time ; but speedily as it passes over , the shadows of the night had not gone down upon. FORT ST . GEORGE , MADRAS.
... Within the tropics , the grey dawn , that isthmus between day and night , spreads itself over only a brief space of time ; but speedily as it passes over , the shadows of the night had not gone down upon. FORT ST . GEORGE , MADRAS.
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Continental India: Travelling Sketches and Historical Recollections ..., Volym 1 James W. Massie Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1840 |
Continental India: Travelling Sketches and Historical Recollections ..., Volym 1 James William Massie Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1840 |
Continental India: Travelling Sketches and Historical Recollections ..., Volym 1 James William Massie Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1985 |
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Sida 427 - Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out : and I will write upon him the name of my God...
Sida 171 - They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Sida 15 - Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Sida 223 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Sida 128 - Two women shall be grinding at the mill ; one shall be taken, and the other left.
Sida 123 - Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
Sida 120 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.
Sida 60 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. For He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Sida 341 - If your majesty places any faith in those books, by distinction called divine, you will there be instructed that God is the God of all mankind, not the God of Mahomedans alone.
Sida 14 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.