 | 1842 - 654 pages
...nor were the resources of his fruitful mind by any means exhausted. His first design was on Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity and sanctity,...of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...nor were the resources of his fruitful mind by any means exhausted. His first design was on Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity,...of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 pages
...was on Benares, a city which in woalth, population, dignity, and sanctity, was among the foremost in Asia. It was commonly believed that half a million...of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...nor were the resources of his fruitful mind by any means exhausted. His first design was on Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity, was among the foremost in Asia. It was commonly believed that balf a million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...nor were the resources of his fruitful mind by any means exhausted. His first design was on Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity,...of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...nor were the resources of his fruitful mind by any means exhausted. His first design was on Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity,...of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely... | |
 | 1867 - 894 pages
...nor were the resources of hie fruitful mind by any means exhausted. His first design was on Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity,...of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely... | |
 | Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 452 pages
...youth. For picturesqueness and grandeur, no sight in all the world can well surpass that ofBenares as seen from the river Ganges. Macaulay's graphic...commonly believed that half a million of human beings 2 was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, 1 See Appendix... | |
 | 1868 - 598 pages
...Benares. Macaulay's graphic description of her appearance towards the close of the last century is applicable to her present state. He speaks of her...population, dignity, and sanctity, was among the foremost in Asia. It was commonly believed that half-a-million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth... | |
 | Edward Thomson - 1870 - 276 pages
...his " Warren Hastings " is still correct, only that he puts the population too high. He says it is "a city which, in wealth, population, dignity, and...commonly believed that half a million of human beings were crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and... | |
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Asia. It was commonly believed that half a million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely... 
