Oriental Memoirs: A Narrative of Seventeen Years Residence in India, Part 68, Volume 2Richard Bentley, 1834 - India |
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... wife were sitting at home together , the latter burnt incense , and performed the usual ceremonies to call up her devil : she accordingly made her appearance ; when 10 SINGULAR PETITION . Framjee desired her to cause the.
... wife were sitting at home together , the latter burnt incense , and performed the usual ceremonies to call up her devil : she accordingly made her appearance ; when 10 SINGULAR PETITION . Framjee desired her to cause the.
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... usual on such occasions . When informed of her resolution , I desired the officer of the guard , Cap- tain H― , to endeavour to divert the suttee from her intention , and in case of failure to acquaint me with the result . He soon ...
... usual on such occasions . When informed of her resolution , I desired the officer of the guard , Cap- tain H― , to endeavour to divert the suttee from her intention , and in case of failure to acquaint me with the result . He soon ...
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... usual mode of ex- pressing the oil from the different seeds is to put them into a cylindrical trough , or large mortar ; a bullock driven round the simple machine , keeps the pestle in action , until the oil is extracted ; after which ...
... usual mode of ex- pressing the oil from the different seeds is to put them into a cylindrical trough , or large mortar ; a bullock driven round the simple machine , keeps the pestle in action , until the oil is extracted ; after which ...
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... usual generally enclosed with strong masonry , and their banks adorned by banian , mango , and tamarind - trees , to shade the weary traveller , and lessen evaporation , and constructed at the expense of government , or by an assessment ...
... usual generally enclosed with strong masonry , and their banks adorned by banian , mango , and tamarind - trees , to shade the weary traveller , and lessen evaporation , and constructed at the expense of government , or by an assessment ...
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... usual appropriations . The cully contains the thrashing floor , where the corn is trampled upon by oxen , the immemorial custom in the east . Here also are large receptacles for cotton , formed by digging holes in the earth , lined with ...
... usual appropriations . The cully contains the thrashing floor , where the corn is trampled upon by oxen , the immemorial custom in the east . Here also are large receptacles for cotton , formed by digging holes in the earth , lined with ...
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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...