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 xix
... Chief military conquerors in India - Clive - Laurence - Coote - Baillie -Lake - Baird - Wellesley - British governors of eminence - Warren Hastings- Marquess Cornwallis - Teignmouth - Marquess Wellesley -Lord Minto Marquess Hastings ...
... Chief military conquerors in India - Clive - Laurence - Coote - Baillie -Lake - Baird - Wellesley - British governors of eminence - Warren Hastings- Marquess Cornwallis - Teignmouth - Marquess Wellesley -Lord Minto Marquess Hastings ...
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... chief part . Varied , indeed , and mingled must be his emotions . Were they only the fantastic com- binations of a fitful and flitting fancy , they might bewilder or entertain the imagination , and leave it to roam at leisure in the ...
... chief part . Varied , indeed , and mingled must be his emotions . Were they only the fantastic com- binations of a fitful and flitting fancy , they might bewilder or entertain the imagination , and leave it to roam at leisure in the ...
Sida 73
... chief objects of attraction are the town and its environs , and especially the European villas . There is all the luxuriance of an eastern clime discoverable in the face of the surrounding country ; so that , casting your eye beyond the ...
... chief objects of attraction are the town and its environs , and especially the European villas . There is all the luxuriance of an eastern clime discoverable in the face of the surrounding country ; so that , casting your eye beyond the ...
Sida 90
... chief places of con- course , where the natives congregate for merchan- dise and amusement , and glance at their appearance , as it strikes a stranger . We may then gratify our feelings of reverence , and mark the bulwarks of Zion ...
... chief places of con- course , where the natives congregate for merchan- dise and amusement , and glance at their appearance , as it strikes a stranger . We may then gratify our feelings of reverence , and mark the bulwarks of Zion ...
Sida 97
... chief part of which consists of the ashes of cow - dung , and their cotton garments saffron - coloured or unbleached - these are the Brah- mins , supported from a fund connected with this pagoda and these men , with not a few other ...
... chief part of which consists of the ashes of cow - dung , and their cotton garments saffron - coloured or unbleached - these are the Brah- mins , supported from a fund connected with this pagoda and these men , with not a few other ...
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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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adventurers Ahmednuggur appeared army Bangalore Barygaza Bengal Bombay Brahmins British India called caste Ceylon character chief christian coast command commerce Company Company's Concan conquest Coromandel coast Deckan Delhi distant divine dominion East eastern elevated emperor English European excited extensive faith favour feet Fort St fortress French friends Ganges governor Guzerat heart heathen heaven Himalayas Hindoo Hindostan holy honour hundred Hyder Hyder Ali Indus influence inhabitants intercourse island Jains king labours land language Lord Madras Mahratta Malabar Malabar coast Malwa ment merchants miles mind mission missionary Mogul Mohammedan moral mountains Mysore nabob nations native observation officers passed Persian plunder Pondicherry possession present princes province racter rajah regions religion religious rendered residence revenue river rulers sacred sailed scenes secured servants ship shores soldier soubahdar spirit Surat temples thousand tion Tippoo traveller tribes troops vessel village Vishnu visited whole worship
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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.