Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825 (with Notes Upon Cyelon); an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826; and Letters Written in India, Volume 2J. Murray, 1844 |
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... seen any peasantry with so many Brahminical or Rajpoot strings among them . The villages and jungles near them are all full of peacocks , another symptom of Hindooism , since the Mussulmans would soon make havoc among these beau- tiful ...
... seen any peasantry with so many Brahminical or Rajpoot strings among them . The villages and jungles near them are all full of peacocks , another symptom of Hindooism , since the Mussulmans would soon make havoc among these beau- tiful ...
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... seen , I think , fewer of these objects in Hindostan than in Bengal , but those I have seen are in every respect most pitiable . In addi- tion to the horrors of the disease itself , the accursed religion of the Hindoos holds them out as ...
... seen , I think , fewer of these objects in Hindostan than in Bengal , but those I have seen are in every respect most pitiable . In addi- tion to the horrors of the disease itself , the accursed religion of the Hindoos holds them out as ...
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... seen in . The next morning , January 12 , we proceeded to Mr. Irving's house , near Agra , about six miles , through a suc- cession of ruins , little less continuous and desolate than those round Delhi . I noticed , however , that some ...
... seen in . The next morning , January 12 , we proceeded to Mr. Irving's house , near Agra , about six miles , through a suc- cession of ruins , little less continuous and desolate than those round Delhi . I noticed , however , that some ...
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... seen , and commanding from its ter- raced roof a very advantageous view of the greater part of the city , and a wide extent of surrounding country . Of this last much appears to have been laid out in an extensive lake , of which the dam ...
... seen , and commanding from its ter- raced roof a very advantageous view of the greater part of the city , and a wide extent of surrounding country . Of this last much appears to have been laid out in an extensive lake , of which the dam ...
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... seen , and on the road from Futtehpoor we passed a fine mangoe - tree , the first I had seen since leaving Delhi , except in the gardens of Secundra and the Tāge . The wells of this country , some of which are very deep , are made in a ...
... seen , and on the road from Futtehpoor we passed a fine mangoe - tree , the first I had seen since leaving Delhi , except in the gardens of Secundra and the Tāge . The wells of this country , some of which are very deep , are made in a ...
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Page 276 - And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the Church : but if he neglect to hear the Church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a Publican.
Page 21 - Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Page 267 - ... to his care, and from attempting whose conversion to Christianity he seems to have abstained, from a feeling of honour. His other converts were between six and seven thousand, besides those which his predecessors and companions in the cause had brought over.
Page 267 - Schwartz and his fifty years' labour among the Heathen, the extraordinary influence and popularity which he acquired, both with Mussulmans, Hindoos, and contending European governments, I need give you no account, except that my idea of him has been raised since I came into the south of India. I used to suspect that, with many admirable qualities, there was too great a mixture of intrigue in his character, that he was too much of a political prophet, and that the veneration which the heathen paid,...
Page 270 - Commit thy way unto the Lord, and trust in Him, and He shall bring it to pass." Especially I have been desirous to hear from thee of the good estate of our brethren, the faithful in Malabar, the bishops, presbyters, and deacons; and also of my own children in Christ, the English presbyters who sojourn among you at...
Page 228 - ... a system which tends, more than anything else the Devil has yet invented, to destroy the feelings of general benevolence, and to make nine-tenths of mankind the hopeless slaves of the remainder ; and in the total absence of any popular system of morals, or any single lesson which the people at large ever hear, to live virtuously and do good to each other.
Page 146 - ... in the degree in which he employs the natives in official situations, and the countenance and familiarity which he extends to all the natives of rank who approach him, he seems to have reduced to practice, almost all the reforms which had struck me as most required in the system of government pursued in those provinces of our Eastern Empire which I had previously visited...
Page 10 - The earnest desire of this good man is to be ordained a clergyman of the church of England, and if God spares his life and mine, I hope, during the Ember weeks in this next autumn, to confer orders on him.
Page 138 - ... at the East end) are very singular and beautiful. Each consists of a large cap, like a bell, finely carved, and surmounted by two elephants with their trunks entwined, and each carrying two male and one female figure, which our guides again told us were viragees. The timber ribs which decorate the roof, whatever their use may have been, are very perfect, and have a good effect in the perspective of the interior, which is all extremely clean and in good repair, and would be, in fact, a very noble...
Page 228 - I have taken some pains to inform myself, really appears to me the worst, both in the degrading notions which it gives of the Deity ; in the endless round of its burdensome ceremonies, which occupy the time and distract the thoughts, without either instructing or interesting its votaries; in the filthy acts of uncleanness and cruelty, not only permitted but enjoined, and inseparably interwoven with those ceremonies...