Cities of India Past and PresentConstable, 1903 - 346 pages |
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... Jehangir's Diary -Rana Umra Sing : abdicates in favour of his son - Aurangzeb- Fate of the Emperor Farukshir - The Barha Seiads - Ajit Sing seizes Tarragurh - Murder of Ajit : devotion of his wives- Battle of Mairta - Murder of Raja ...
... Jehangir's Diary -Rana Umra Sing : abdicates in favour of his son - Aurangzeb- Fate of the Emperor Farukshir - The Barha Seiads - Ajit Sing seizes Tarragurh - Murder of Ajit : devotion of his wives- Battle of Mairta - Murder of Raja ...
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... Jehangir's marble throne- The Maginah Musjid , or Gem Mosque - Hawkins ' account of Jehangir's Court : his cruelty - Akbar's tomb : Finch's account of its construction - Akbar's patronage of learning he causes translations from the ...
... Jehangir's marble throne- The Maginah Musjid , or Gem Mosque - Hawkins ' account of Jehangir's Court : his cruelty - Akbar's tomb : Finch's account of its construction - Akbar's patronage of learning he causes translations from the ...
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... Jehangir , set out for the Moghul Court , and William Finch , with three or four English domestics , was left at Surat " to sell the remainder of the goods that had been landed . " Hawkins met the Emperor , and married " a whyte mayden ...
... Jehangir , set out for the Moghul Court , and William Finch , with three or four English domestics , was left at Surat " to sell the remainder of the goods that had been landed . " Hawkins met the Emperor , and married " a whyte mayden ...
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... Jehangir , " having looked curiously and asked many questions of my presents , " demanded what he required of him . " I answered : Justice . That on the assurance of his Majesties Firmaen sent into England , the king , my master , had ...
... Jehangir , " having looked curiously and asked many questions of my presents , " demanded what he required of him . " I answered : Justice . That on the assurance of his Majesties Firmaen sent into England , the king , my master , had ...
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... Jehangir . Jehangir , in his auto- biography , which deserves to rank with the immortal diary of Pepys , writes : " Pleasing intelligence arrived of the intention of Rana Umra Sing to repair and make his obedi- ence to me . My fortunate ...
... Jehangir . Jehangir , in his auto- biography , which deserves to rank with the immortal diary of Pepys , writes : " Pleasing intelligence arrived of the intention of Rana Umra Sing to repair and make his obedi- ence to me . My fortunate ...
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Page 26 - The impotent man answered him, Sir I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool : but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
Page 140 - Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared thou hast done; and, whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 209 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Page 146 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Page 271 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Page 57 - We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make Death proud to take us.
Page 1 - About the House was a delicate Garden, voiced to be the pleasantest in India, intended rather for wanton Dalliance, Love's Artillery, than to make resistance against an invading Foe...
Page 146 - In this hall was the famous Peacock Throne, so " called from its having the figures of two peacocks " standing behind it, their tails being expanded, and " the whole so inlaid with sapphires, rubies, emeralds, " pearls and other precious stones of appropriate colours
Page 42 - The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies'.
Page 185 - ... principle. Thus a faith based on some elementary principles traced itself on the mirror of his heart, and as the result of all the influences which were brought to bear on His Majesty, there grew gradually, as the outline on a stone, the conviction in his heart that there were sensible men in all religions, and abstemious thinkers, and mm endowed with miraculous powers, among all nations.