 | Josiah Conder - 1828 - 412 pages
...banished from home by the revolutions which are continually occurring in the Hindoo states,—come hither to wash away their sins, or to fill up their...great sums in profuse and indiscriminate charity." On penetrating further into the city, the Bishop was surprised at the large, lofty, and handsome dwelling-houses,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1828 - 618 pages
...or banished from home by the revolutions which are continually occurring in the Hindoo states, come hither to wash away their sins, or to fill up their...great sums in profuse and indiscriminate charity.' Vol. I. pp. 282— 4. On penetrating further into the city, the Bishop was surprised at the large,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...or banished from home by the revolutions which are continually occurring in the Hindoo states, come hither to wash away their sins, or to fill up their...ceremonies of their religion, and really give away great Burns in profuse and indiscriminate charity.' — p. 282 — 284. The interior of one of the innumerable... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1829 - 252 pages
...or banished from home by the revolutions which are continually occurring in the Hindoo states, come hither to wash away their sins, or to fill up their...great sums in profuse and indiscriminate charity.' The interior of one of the innumerable temples of the holy city is thus given : — ' The temple-court,... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 pages
...or banishec from home by the revolutions which are continually occurring in the Hindoo states, come hither to wash away their sins, or to fill up their vacant hours will the gaudy ceremonies of their religion, and really give away great sums in profuse and indiscriminate... | |
 | Leonard Crocker Bowles - 1831 - 372 pages
...or banished from home by the revolutions which are continually occurring in the Hindoo states, come hither to wash away their sins, or to fill up their...to a vast private fortune, was one of the chief of ihese almsgivers. On his name-day, that is, in Hindostan, the day on which his patron god is worshipped,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 pages
...or banished from home by the revolutions which are continually occurring in the Hindoo states, come hither to wash away their sins, or to fill up their...great sums in profuse and indiscriminate charity." Heber's progress in India was brilliant as it was brief. Upon Monday, April 3rd, 1826, after preaching... | |
 | 1840 - 430 pages
...or banished from home by the revolutions which are continually occurring in the Hindu states, come hither to wash away their sins, or to fill up their vacant hours by the gaudy ceremonies of their religion, and really give away great sums in profuse and indiscriminate... | |
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... from every part of India, as well as from Tibet and the Birman empire, a great multitude of rich individuals in the decline of life, and almost all the great men who are from time to time disgraced or banished from home by the revolutions which are... 
