A Voyage to East-India: Wherein Some Things are Taken Notice Of, in Our Passage Thither, But Many More in Our Abode There, Within that Rich and Most Spacious Empire of the Great Mogul: Mixt with Some Parallel Observations and Inferences Upon the Story, to Profit as Well as Delight the Reader

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J. Wilkie, 1777 - India - 511 pages

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Page 339 - Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Page 79 - As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
Page 56 - Journal, they muft needs have fwoln into fo many huge volumes, as would have prevented the perifhing of paper. But undoubtedly if he had been continued in life to have written them, there might have been made very good ufe of his obfervations ; for as he was a. very particular, fo was he a very faithful relator of things he faw ; he ever difclaiming that bold liberty which divers travellers have, and do take, by fpeaking and writing any thing they pleafe of remote parts, when they cannot eafily be...
Page 134 - Thou madeft him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands ; Thou haft put all things under his feet : All fheep and oxen, yea, and the beafts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fifh of the fea, and whatfoever pafleth through the paths of the feas.
Page 475 - ... train up a child in the way he mould go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Page 359 - I RECKON that the fufferings of this prefent time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that fhall be revealed in us.
Page 415 - ... arrive in any of my ports, my people shall permit and suffer them to do what they will freely in their merchandizing causes, aiding and assisting them in all...
Page 65 - Coryat and others) of very great trade, wealth, and delight, lying more temperately out of the parching sun than any other of his great cities do. And to this city he wanted not company, nor afterwards to Agra, the Mogol's metropolis or chief city. And here it is very observable that from Lahore to Agra...
Page 20 - Yet all this contented him not, for never any seemed to be more weary of ill usage than he was of courtesies ; none ever more desirous to return home to his country than he ; for when he had learned a little of our language, he would daily lie upon the ground and cry very often thus in broken English : " Coree home go, Souldania go, home go.
Page 470 - Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present : and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered. Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness : let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place : for this is our portion, and our lot is this.

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