...immense riches and increasing prosperity. He had a very loud voice, and a very elegant and pleasant way of speech. His manners and habits were quite different...persons, and his visage was full of godly dignity. FIRST YEAR OF THE REIGN.* Remission of Transit Duties. As I had removed the practice of levying transit...

...immense riches and increasing prosperity. He had a very loud voice, and a very elegant and pleasant way of speech. His manners and habits were quite different...persons, and his visage was full of godly dignity.' Other accounts confirm, in its essentials, this description. Elphinstone writes of him as ' a strongly...

...and chest ; long arms and hands. . . . He had a very loud voice, and a very elegant and pleasant way of speech. His manners and habits were quite different...persons, and his visage was full of godly dignity," — so says his son Jahangir. Like his ancestors, Akbar was an eager hunter. In one day he personally...

...immense riches and increasing prosperity. He had a very loud voice, and a very elegant and pleasant way of speech. His manners and habits were quite different...persons, and his visage was full of godly dignity." Leaving the tomb of Akbar, we drove to another mausoleum beyond the Jumna. It is situated in a walled...

...immense riches and increasing prosperity. He had a very loud voice and a very elegant and pleasant way of speech. His manners and habits were quite different...persons and his visage was full of godly dignity." In the courtyard outside is a slab on which the Emperor sat to play pachisi, a game not unlike chess...

...immense riches, and increasing prosperity. He had a very loud voice and a very elegant and pleasant way of speech. His manners and habits were quite different...persons, and his visage was full of godly dignity.' But more important even than bis personal appearance, at any rate in the eyes of those over whom he...