Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, (with Notes Upon Ceylon,) an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in IndiaMurray, 1828 - 515 pages |
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... brought up in the Church of Scotland , and there-- fore held all ceremonies superfluous and unavail- ing . I reminded him that his Church and mine agreed in the efficacy and necessity of occasion- ally receiving the Communion , but the ...
... brought up in the Church of Scotland , and there-- fore held all ceremonies superfluous and unavail- ing . I reminded him that his Church and mine agreed in the efficacy and necessity of occasion- ally receiving the Communion , but the ...
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... brought me out to India , the amiable manners and countenances of the people , contrasted with the symbols of their foolish and polluted idolatry now first before me , impressed me with a very solemn and earnest wish that I might in ...
... brought me out to India , the amiable manners and countenances of the people , contrasted with the symbols of their foolish and polluted idolatry now first before me , impressed me with a very solemn and earnest wish that I might in ...
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... brought us to an extensive open plain like a race - course , at the ex- tremity of which we saw Calcutta , its white houses glittering through the twilight , which was now be- ginning to close in , with an effect not unlike that of ...
... brought us to an extensive open plain like a race - course , at the ex- tremity of which we saw Calcutta , its white houses glittering through the twilight , which was now be- ginning to close in , with an effect not unlike that of ...
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... brought from Bengal . They are fond of vegetables , and almost exclusively fed on them ; three of these are very good - natured , and shew their impatience for their meals , ( after which they are said to be very greedy , ) only by a ...
... brought from Bengal . They are fond of vegetables , and almost exclusively fed on them ; three of these are very good - natured , and shew their impatience for their meals , ( after which they are said to be very greedy , ) only by a ...
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... brought thither . The consecration of the cemetery followed , wisely here , as in all British India , placed at some dis- tance from the Church and the village . On our return to General Hardwicke's , we amused ourselves till dinner ...
... brought thither . The consecration of the cemetery followed , wisely here , as in all British India , placed at some dis- tance from the Church and the village . On our return to General Hardwicke's , we amused ourselves till dinner ...
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