 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...  Cities of India Past and Present - Page 1by Sir George William Forrest - 1903 - 346 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Viscountess Amelia Fitz Clarence Cary Falkland - 1857 - 348 pages
...Majesty Charles II, king of Great Britain. See appendix. depopulate whole viDages by their outrages. About the house was a delicate garden, voiced to be...artillery, than to make resistance against an invading foe ; but the walks which were before covered with nature's verdant awnings and lightly pressed by soft... | |
 | George Wheeler - 1876 - 422 pages
...castle would be found there. Stretching away from each side of the building was a delicate. garden, the pleasantest in India, " intended rather for wanton...than to make resistance against an, invading foe." With the advance of civilisation a gigantic city, strengthened on all sides with bastion and fort and... | |
 | George Pearson Wheeler - 1876 - 418 pages
...castle would be found there. Stretching away from each side of the building was a delicate garden, the pleasantest in India, "intended rather for wanton...than to make resistance against an invading foe." With the advance of civilisation a gigantic city, strengthened on all sides with bastion and fort and... | |
 | James Mackenzie Maclean - 1889 - 720 pages
...the Malabars, who were accustomed to seize cattle and depopulate whole villages by their outrages. About the house was a delicate garden, voiced to be the pleasantest in India, intended ratherfor wanton dalliance, Love's artillery than to make resistance against an invading foe." This... | |
 | Joseph Gerson Cunha - 1900 - 414 pages
...destroying them by tire and sword, or compelling to a worse fate, eternal and intolerable slavery .... About the house was a delicate garden voiced to be the pleasantest in India, &c. " A new Account, 8fc., p. 63. In this house Garcia da Orta must have kept his great library, or... | |
 | India. Census Commissioner - 1901 - 172 pages
...the Malabars, who were accustomed to seize cattle and depopulate whole villages by their outrages. About the house was a delicate garden, voiced to be...than to make resistance against an invading foe." 'To the south-west of the house and garden was a certain area of open ground, corresponding to the... | |
 | William Crooke - 1906 - 568 pages
...in 1674, more than a hundred years before this time, Fryer described the English garden at Bombay : "Voiced to be the pleasantest in India, intended rather...Artillery, than to make resistance against an invading Foe " ; for it then became the site of a battery. The splendid modern gardens of the native princes represent... | |
 | William Crooke - 1906 - 568 pages
...1674, more than a hundred years before this time, Fryer described the English garden at Bombay : " Voiced to be the pleasantest in India, intended rather...Artillery, than to make resistance against an invading Foe " ; for it then became the site of a battery. The splendid modern gardens of the native princes represent... | |
 | Carlton Stubbs - 1907 - 266 pages
...man needs around him for recreation, but Mr. Cook formed a different picture : " About the house is a delicate garden, voiced to be the pleasantest in...than to make resistance against an invading foe," from which one may gather that King Charles' envoy was somewhat of a poet with a practical side to... | |
 | John Fryer - 1909 - 490 pages
...Years Ago (1907). by Fire and Sword, or compelling to a worse Fate, Eternal and intolerable Slavery. About the House was a delicate Garden, voiced to be...Artillery, than to make resistance against an invading Foe : For the Portugal* generally forgetting their pristine Vertue, Lust, Riot and Rapine, the ensuing... | |
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