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 44
... miles distant , and we are only sailing three or four knots an hour ; it will be some time before the vessels can be alongside each other . There is an evident strife in the bosom of some of our party , whether to forego enjoying the ...
... miles distant , and we are only sailing three or four knots an hour ; it will be some time before the vessels can be alongside each other . There is an evident strife in the bosom of some of our party , whether to forego enjoying the ...
Sida 64
... up 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 .
... up 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 68
... mile and a half further south , other works , more stupendous , but less prominent than these , are found . Here are two pagodas , each originally consisting of a single stone , and hewn out of the primitive rock , thirty feet long ...
... mile and a half further south , other works , more stupendous , but less prominent than these , are found . Here are two pagodas , each originally consisting of a single stone , and hewn out of the primitive rock , thirty feet long ...
Sida 73
... miles . The walls of the houses are overlaid with a composition called chunam , susceptible of the highest polish ; which , at a dis- tance , when the building is new , is as pure as ala- baster , and , by age , acquires the colour of a ...
... miles . The walls of the houses are overlaid with a composition called chunam , susceptible of the highest polish ; which , at a dis- tance , when the building is new , is as pure as ala- baster , and , by age , acquires the colour of a ...
Sida 74
... miles from the shore , we saw no boat coming along - side , neither was there one on the larboard or star- board . Our visitors were not shaking their black locks as if they had passed through the waters , neither were they wringing ...
... miles from the shore , we saw no boat coming along - side , neither was there one on the larboard or star- board . Our visitors were not shaking their black locks as if they had passed through the waters , neither were they wringing ...
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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.