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... acquired more renown than any man ever had before him . And further , they saw that they would have to endure a climate more severe , enervating and sickly than they had ever known . These things were well calculated to make the army ...
... acquired more renown than any man ever had before him . And further , they saw that they would have to endure a climate more severe , enervating and sickly than they had ever known . These things were well calculated to make the army ...
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... acquired their power before they embraced the religion of the Vedas and Purans . This extension of Hinduism increased the number of castes , and contributed to the confusion which now exists . The people of a new province or kingdom ...
... acquired their power before they embraced the religion of the Vedas and Purans . This extension of Hinduism increased the number of castes , and contributed to the confusion which now exists . The people of a new province or kingdom ...
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... acquired in India , so different from their progress and success at that time in other countries , arose from the state of India and the peculiar character and institutions of the Hindus . The country was subject to many independent ...
... acquired in India , so different from their progress and success at that time in other countries , arose from the state of India and the peculiar character and institutions of the Hindus . The country was subject to many independent ...
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... acquired a love of wealth , luxury , and splendor . They were glad to exchange the simple tent for the splendid palace , and the plain dress which their prophet wore for the gorgeous robes of courtiers and mon- archs . And in order to ...
... acquired a love of wealth , luxury , and splendor . They were glad to exchange the simple tent for the splendid palace , and the plain dress which their prophet wore for the gorgeous robes of courtiers and mon- archs . And in order to ...
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... acquired for his zeal and exertions in propagating the true faith , or his avarice was not satisfied with the spoils he had acquired in eleven different expeditions into India . He had heard of a celebrated temple called Somnat , which ...
... acquired for his zeal and exertions in propagating the true faith , or his avarice was not satisfied with the spoils he had acquired in eleven different expeditions into India . He had heard of a celebrated temple called Somnat , which ...
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Acber acquired affairs Afghan agents appears army attack Aurungzeb battle became become believed Bengal Bombay brahmins Calcutta called capital caste cause ceremonies character Christian church classes commenced conquest contain continued court death Deckan deities Delhi districts dominions East India Company emperor empire engaged England English government Europe European faith Ferishta force French Ghizni governor governor-general Gujerat heathen Hinduism Hindus history of India idols influence inhabitants Khan king labor language laws live Lord Madras Mahmoud Mahrattas marriage means ment military mission missionaries Mohammed Mohammedans Nabob nations native population native princes nearly obtained officers opinion Persia persons places plundered polygamy Portuguese possession proceeded professed provinces Purans Raja reign religion religious respect revenue rites sacred books Sanscrit says Scriptures Shah Jehan shudras Shuja Sikhs soon sovereign spirit superstition supposed temples territory throne tion treaty ud Deen Vedas vernacular Vishnu worship Zamorin
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Page 431 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
Page 224 - He resolved, in . the gloomy recesses of a mind 'capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Page 414 - And his disciples asked him, saying, " Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus answered, "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents : but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Page 589 - Come forth out of thy royal chambers, O Prince of all the kings of the earth ! put on the visible robes of thy imperial majesty, take up that unlimited sceptre which thy almighty Father hath bequeathed thee ; for now the voice of thy bride calls thee, and all creatures sigh to be renewed.
Page 608 - When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 589 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure •offering : for my name diatt be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
Page 589 - Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
Page 224 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 609 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
Page 607 - Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house ; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.