Cities of India Past and PresentConstable, 1903 - 346 pages |
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... rich in the literature of the eighteenth century . The Society has also had frequent gifts of rare and valuable Oriental publications from the Bombay Government and the Government of India , and the library has grown up to be a goodly ...
... rich in the literature of the eighteenth century . The Society has also had frequent gifts of rare and valuable Oriental publications from the Bombay Government and the Government of India , and the library has grown up to be a goodly ...
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... rich good to the value of many hundred thousand pounds , and burnt of other goods and houses to ye amount of as much more , so yt ye towne is utterly ruin'd and very little left either of riches or habitation . Ye rogue was very cruell ...
... rich good to the value of many hundred thousand pounds , and burnt of other goods and houses to ye amount of as much more , so yt ye towne is utterly ruin'd and very little left either of riches or habitation . Ye rogue was very cruell ...
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... rich silks , and his Council were " in large coaches drawn by stately oxen . " Fryer gives us a sketch of the native coach in which the factors rode . He was one of the old travellers who describes things as exactly as they see them ...
... rich silks , and his Council were " in large coaches drawn by stately oxen . " Fryer gives us a sketch of the native coach in which the factors rode . He was one of the old travellers who describes things as exactly as they see them ...
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... rich building materials from a long distance he raised magnificent mosques , palaces and tombs , and by encouraging merchants , weavers and skilled craftsmen he made Ahmedabad a centre of trade and manufacture . Under able rulers the ...
... rich building materials from a long distance he raised magnificent mosques , palaces and tombs , and by encouraging merchants , weavers and skilled craftsmen he made Ahmedabad a centre of trade and manufacture . Under able rulers the ...
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... rich middle class and to the Peases and Barclays of Western India we owe the costly Jain temples . The faith is still followed by the great banking families of Gujarat . When the Muhammadans conquered the pro- vince and built their ...
... rich middle class and to the Peases and Barclays of Western India we owe the costly Jain temples . The faith is still followed by the great banking families of Gujarat . When the Muhammadans conquered the pro- vince and built their ...
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Agra Ahmedabad Ajmer Akbar arch architecture Aurangzeb beauty Benares Bengal Bombay Brahman British building built Calcutta capital carved Cawnpore centre century chief church Company court Delhi Diwan-i-Khas dome East Emperor Empire enemy English erected fire flowers Forrest French garden gate gateway Ghat Gingee gold Government Governor graceful ground Gujarat guns hall harem Hastings Hindu honour Humayun hundred India Jehan Jehangir Jey Sing Jeypore King ladies land lofty Lord Lucknow Madras Mahal Mahratta Malabar Point Marwar ment minarets Moghul morning mosque Muhammadan Musjid native noble Nur Jehan officers ornamented Oude palace pass pearls pillars Pondicherry Portuguese princes Queen Raja Rajpoot Rajpootana red sandstone residence rich river Royal sacred sent sepoys Shah Shah Jehan ships Shivaji shrine side siege soldiers stands stone Surat temple throne tion tomb tower town trees troops wall Warren Hastings white marble women writes
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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.