 | 1797 - 752 pages
...difappointment, and raife a laugh at the expence of the perfon fent. The Huli is always in March, and the loft day is the general holiday. I have never yet heard any account of the origin of this Englifh cuftom ; but it is unqueftionably very ancient, and is ftill kept up even in great towns, though... | |
 | Great Britain - 1797 - 980 pages
...difappointment, and raifea laugh at the expence of the perfon fint. The Huli is always in March, and the laft day is the general holiday. I have never yet heard any account of the origin of this Englifh cuftom ; but it is unqutftionably very ancient, and is ftill kept up even in great towns, though... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...that month, indicate some traces of the Iluli: I have never yet heard any account of the origin of the English custom ; but it is unquestionably very ancient,...even in great towns, though less in them than in the country : with us it is chiefly confined to the lower classes of people ; but in India high and low... | |
 | Peter Roberts - Folklore - 1815 - 398 pages
...expense of the person " sent. The Hull is always in March, and the last day is the general holyday. I have never yet heard any account of the origin of...in great towns, " though less in them than in the country: " with us it is chiefly confined to the " lower class of people, but in India high " and low... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 696 pages
...to end in disappointment, and raise a laugh at the-expense of the person sent. The Huli is'altcays in March, and the last day is the general holiday....even in great towns, though less in them than in the country: with "us it is chiefly confined to the lower class of people, but in Ihdia high and low join... | |
 | American periodicals - 1830 - 504 pages
...expeditions that are to end in disappointment, and raise a laugh at the expense of the person sent. The Hull is always in March, and the last day is the general...even in great towns, though less in them than in the country : with us it is chiefly confined to the lower class of people, but in India high and low join... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 598 pages
...¡s always in March, and the last day ч the general holiday. 1 have never yet heard any account ot the origin of this English custom, but it. is unquestionably...even in great towns, though less in them than in the country. With us it is chiefly confined to the lower class of people, but in India high and low join... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...is to send people on errands and expeditions that are to end in disappointment, and raise a laugh at the expense of the person sent. The Huli is always...even in great towns, though less in them than in the country. With us it is chieflyconfined to the lower class of people ; but in India high and low join... | |
 | English literature - 1797 - 486 pages
...dtfi4f>f>untment, and raife a laugh at the expence oi the perfon fent. The Huli is always in March, and the laji day is the general holiday. I have never yet heard any account of the origin of this Znglijb lujiom, hut it is vnqucltionably very ancient, and is (till fce^t up even in great towns, though... | |
 | Sir William Lloyd - Himalaya Mountains - 1810 - 708 pages
...is to send people on errands and expeditions that are to end in disappointment, and raise a laugh at the expense of the person sent. The Huli is always in March, and the last day is the greatest holiday. * * "The origin of the Huli seems lost in antiquity; and I have not been able to... | |
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During the Huli, when mirth and festivity reign among the Hindoos of every class, one subject of diversion is to send people on errands and expeditions that are to end in disappointment, and raise a laugh at the expense of the person sent. The Huli is... 
