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 9
... returned from his toils ; and , though laid up , as the once tempest - tossed mariner in a haven of rest , in the flitting and chequered reveries of his ever active mind encountering again his perils , recalling the modes of thought ...
... returned from his toils ; and , though laid up , as the once tempest - tossed mariner in a haven of rest , in the flitting and chequered reveries of his ever active mind encountering again his perils , recalling the modes of thought ...
Sida 48
... returning to profitable and social intercourse . What discoveries may thus be made both in philo- sophy and morals , of man himself and of his God , the Hora Solitariæ of many worthies would tell , were we admitted to the perusal . In ...
... returning to profitable and social intercourse . What discoveries may thus be made both in philo- sophy and morals , of man himself and of his God , the Hora Solitariæ of many worthies would tell , were we admitted to the perusal . In ...
Sida 96
... returned one thousand bullocks , carrying the sacred water of the Ganges : the distance was more than twelve hundred miles . A tank was dug ( what you call a pond ) on the ground , secured under his influence , and here was poured out ...
... returned one thousand bullocks , carrying the sacred water of the Ganges : the distance was more than twelve hundred miles . A tank was dug ( what you call a pond ) on the ground , secured under his influence , and here was poured out ...
Sida 102
... simplicity so con- spicuous in that family called out of Mesopotamia , three thousand five hundred years ago , I mean that group of native women : they are returning from the Tank , a place to which they generally 102 CONTINENTAL INDIA .
... simplicity so con- spicuous in that family called out of Mesopotamia , three thousand five hundred years ago , I mean that group of native women : they are returning from the Tank , a place to which they generally 102 CONTINENTAL INDIA .
Sida 114
... returned in a short time , and brought into the Fort a great quantity of grain . Thus the Fort was saved ; and when all was over , he paid all the people , made them a small present , and sent them home . " At another time , the ...
... returned in a short time , and brought into the Fort a great quantity of grain . Thus the Fort was saved ; and when all was over , he paid all the people , made them a small present , and sent them home . " At another time , the ...
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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.