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 xvi
... troops : my steed raged like a furious elephant , and the plain was agitated like the waves of the Nile . " - I quote the words only to assure my readers that I am con- scious the loudest vauntings might be the prelude to the darkest ...
... troops : my steed raged like a furious elephant , and the plain was agitated like the waves of the Nile . " - I quote the words only to assure my readers that I am con- scious the loudest vauntings might be the prelude to the darkest ...
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... troops in distant colonies ; has preached in barracks and canton- ments from week to week , and visited the sick and dying soldiers in their quarters and in hospitals ; that , by pastoral visits and correspondence , he has watched over ...
... troops in distant colonies ; has preached in barracks and canton- ments from week to week , and visited the sick and dying soldiers in their quarters and in hospitals ; that , by pastoral visits and correspondence , he has watched over ...
Sida 111
... troops ; not that there is now any need for walled cities and powerful garrisons in this part of India , either to defend against invaders , or to resist or prevent the revolt of the natives . The latter are attached to our government ...
... troops ; not that there is now any need for walled cities and powerful garrisons in this part of India , either to defend against invaders , or to resist or prevent the revolt of the natives . The latter are attached to our government ...
Sida 261
... troops , the native Hindoo ranks have sometimes numbered more than 260,000 fighting soldiers , accoutred and upheld by British pay . It may , therefore , be supposed , as was the case , that the policy of the conqueror has been to ...
... troops , the native Hindoo ranks have sometimes numbered more than 260,000 fighting soldiers , accoutred and upheld by British pay . It may , therefore , be supposed , as was the case , that the policy of the conqueror has been to ...
Sida 307
... force destined for the hazardous undertaking . The perilous and rash , if not even hopeless , enterprise , was com- menced with an armament consisting of 900 Europeans , and 1,500 sepoy troops , and a naval x 2 ADVENTURE AND CONQUESTS .
... force destined for the hazardous undertaking . The perilous and rash , if not even hopeless , enterprise , was com- menced with an armament consisting of 900 Europeans , and 1,500 sepoy troops , and a naval x 2 ADVENTURE AND CONQUESTS .
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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.