Oriental Memoirs: A Narrative of Seventeen Years Residence in India, Part 68, Volume 2Richard Bentley, 1834 - India |
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... covered with jewels , which is a com- mon mode of adorning infants among the wealthy Hindoos . Many circumstances appeared against him , on which he demanded the ordeal : it was a measure to which I was very averse , but at the ...
... covered with jewels , which is a com- mon mode of adorning infants among the wealthy Hindoos . Many circumstances appeared against him , on which he demanded the ordeal : it was a measure to which I was very averse , but at the ...
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... covered with large leaves , which are carefully picked off when they change colour and scent the air ; they are then dried in the shade , and preserved for use . Tobacco is an annual plant of delicate appearance ; the blossoms , of a ...
... covered with large leaves , which are carefully picked off when they change colour and scent the air ; they are then dried in the shade , and preserved for use . Tobacco is an annual plant of delicate appearance ; the blossoms , of a ...
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... ; the cane is three or four inches in circumference . Like the bam- boo , and other arundinaceous plants , it is intersected by numerous joints , which do not impede the circula- AGRICULTURE . 39 tion . The stem , covered with.
... ; the cane is three or four inches in circumference . Like the bam- boo , and other arundinaceous plants , it is intersected by numerous joints , which do not impede the circula- AGRICULTURE . 39 tion . The stem , covered with.
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... covered with a hard rind , contains a spongy pith , full of juice ; which in Bengal , Java , and other places is manufactured into sugar ; in the west- ern provinces of India it is seldom brought to such perfection . The natives either ...
... covered with a hard rind , contains a spongy pith , full of juice ; which in Bengal , Java , and other places is manufactured into sugar ; in the west- ern provinces of India it is seldom brought to such perfection . The natives either ...
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... covered with a chintz palampore , which concealed a bed of thorns placed under it : the collector , a corpulent Banian , was then stripped of his jama , or muslin robe , and ordered to lie down on the couch the cords bending with his ...
... covered with a chintz palampore , which concealed a bed of thorns placed under it : the collector , a corpulent Banian , was then stripped of his jama , or muslin robe , and ordered to lie down on the couch the cords bending with his ...
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Page 98 - 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 513 - 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 516 - How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Page 386 - Behold, fond man : See here thy pictured life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength. Thy sober autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene. Ah ! whither now are fled Those dreams of greatness ? those unsolid hopes Of happiness ? those longings after fame ? Those restless cares? those busy bustling days? Those gay-spent, festive nights? those veering thoughts Lost between good and ill, that shared thy life?
Page 513 - I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Page 241 - 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 332 - 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 516 - ... 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 150 - Well done, good and faithful servants, enter ye into the joy of your Lord.
Page 516 - 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...