The General East India Guide and Vade Mecum: For the Public Functionary, Government Officer, Private Agent, Trader Or Foreign Sojourner, in British India, and the Adjacent Parts of Asia Immediately Connected with the Honourable the East India Company ...Kingsbury, Parbury, & Allen, 1825 - 669 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 217 - They are ordered to open all the pustules with a sharp-pointed thorn, so soon as they begin to change their colour, and whilst the matter continues in a fluid state. Confinement to the house is absolutely...
Page 239 - Thus, several may be seen annually walking about without chattahs (ie unbrellas,) during the greatest heats, they affect to be ashamed of requiring aid, and endeavour to uphold by such a display of indifference, the great reliance placed on strength of constitution. This unhappy infatuation rarely exceeds a few days, at the end of that time, sometimes' only of a week (may I have known the period to be much shorter ) we too often are called upon to attend the funeral of the self-deluded victim.
Page 305 - ... under waistcoat, both of white linen, and the former having sleeves. Such would appear an extraordinary freedom, were it not established by custom; though, it generally happens, that gentlemen newly arrived from Europe...
Page 442 - Taking the extent of the ruins of Gour at the most reasonable calculation, it is not less than fifteen miles in length (extending along the old bank of the Ganges), and from two to three in breadth.
Page 216 - Bramins annually return, observe strictly the regimen enjoined, whether they determine to be inoculated or not; this preparation consists only in abstaining for a month from fish, milk, and ghee, (a kind of butter made generally of buffalo's milk;) the prohibition of fish respects only the native Portuguese and Mahomedans, who abound in every province of the empire. When the Bramins begin to inoculate, they pass from house to house and operate at the door, refusing to inoculate any who have not,...
Page 193 - Persons of the first rank, have their jooraubs, as also their dustaimaks, or gloves, made of shawl. These are of the form used in England for children ; having a receptacle for the thumb, but the fingers are all contained in the same bag, or cyst.
Page 597 - ... in the plan adopted by mrs. jones for the instruction of her son, she proposed to reject the severity of discipline, and to lead his mind insensibly to knowledge and exertion, by exciting his curiosity, and directing it to useful objects.
Page 585 - Hindoostanee department of the college, having compiled and arranged, in the Hindoostanee language, a work on the history and geography of India, has been encouraged by the college to print it for publication. The dissemination, by means of the press, of works composed by natives eminent for their knowledge and practical skill in this dialect, must gradually polish and fix a standard of excellence in a language, which, though long employed as an elegant medium of colloquial intercourse, and as the...
Page 217 - Early on the morning succeeding the operation, four collons (an earthen pot containing about two gallons) of cold water are ordered to be thrown over the patient, from the head downwards, and to be repeated every morning and evening until the fever comes on (which usually is about the close of the sixth day from the inoculation), then to desist until the appearance of the eruptions (which commonly happens at the...
Page 642 - Corps, and the tests by which such qualifications are to be ascertained, viz. " 1. A well-grounded knowledge of the general principles of grammar. " 2. The ability to read and write with facility the modified Persian character of the Oordoo, and the Devi Nagree of the K,hurree Bolee. " 3. A colloquial knowledge of the Oordoo and Hindoo.ee, sufficient to enable him to explain with facility, and at the moment, any orders in those dialects, or to transpose reports, letters, Sac.