Illustrations to Oriental Memoirs, Volume 2Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1834 - India |
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... Villages described- Tanks and Wells - Hospitality to Travellers in Guzerat - Peasantry -Right of Landed Property - Mode of Cultivation , and Appropria tion of the Produce - Massaulchee - Illustration of a Parable— Washerman - Cullies ...
... Villages described- Tanks and Wells - Hospitality to Travellers in Guzerat - Peasantry -Right of Landed Property - Mode of Cultivation , and Appropria tion of the Produce - Massaulchee - Illustration of a Parable— Washerman - Cullies ...
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... Villages and Cul- tivation - Valuable Oxen in Guzerat - Horses - Ancient Splendour of Guzerat - Beautiful Mausoleums at Betwah - Affectionate Vene- ration for the Dead in Hindostan 154 CHAPTER VII . Description of Ahmedabad ...
... Villages and Cul- tivation - Valuable Oxen in Guzerat - Horses - Ancient Splendour of Guzerat - Beautiful Mausoleums at Betwah - Affectionate Vene- ration for the Dead in Hindostan 154 CHAPTER VII . Description of Ahmedabad ...
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... of the city , and villages in the purgunna , but none of the Brahmins in the panchaut , nor any Hindoo officer , took the smallest trouble to prevent these shocking SUICIDES . 7 occurrences . The suicides were at last.
... of the city , and villages in the purgunna , but none of the Brahmins in the panchaut , nor any Hindoo officer , took the smallest trouble to prevent these shocking SUICIDES . 7 occurrences . The suicides were at last.
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... villages in my districts , I might neither drink out of their cups , nor wash my hands in their basons , yet would the women gently pour water from their jars into my hands , contracted into the form of a cup ; and held sloping to the ...
... villages in my districts , I might neither drink out of their cups , nor wash my hands in their basons , yet would the women gently pour water from their jars into my hands , contracted into the form of a cup ; and held sloping to the ...
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... Villages described - Tanks and Wells - Hospitality to Travellers in Guzerat - Peasantry - Right of Landed Property - Mode of Cultivation , and Appropriation of the Produce - Massaulchee- Illustration of a Parable - Washerman - Cullies ...
... Villages described - Tanks and Wells - Hospitality to Travellers in Guzerat - Peasantry - Right of Landed Property - Mode of Cultivation , and Appropriation of the Produce - Massaulchee- Illustration of a Parable - Washerman - Cullies ...
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Page 99 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists.
Page 415 - Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth : for God hath received him.
Page 199 - Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
Page 274 - That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Page 418 - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 418 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands...
Page 164 - And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal...
Page 15 - And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.
Page 200 - And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
Page 415 - He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.