 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...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...mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stcitely flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the... | |
 | Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 452 pages
...was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, 1 See Appendix B. 2 This conjecture regarding the population of Benares...mendicants, and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately nights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges,... | |
 | Edward Thomson - 1870 - 276 pages
...of human beings were 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 traveler could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants, and not less holy bulls.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 pages
...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...mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately nights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges were... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1873 - 494 pages
...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 scarce make his way through the press of holy mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 pages
...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...through the press of holy mendicants and not less holy bolls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places... | |
 | 1878 - 924 pages
...million human beings were crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred...through the press of holy mendicants, and not less holy bulk. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places... | |
 | John Russell Young - 1879 - 752 pages
...million human beings were 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 traveler could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants and not less holy bulls.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 684 pages
...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...mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately nights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing -places along the Ganges... | |
 | J. F. Packard - 1880 - 850 pages
...million human beings were crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines and minarets, and balconies and carved oriels, to which the sacred...mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately nights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges were... | |
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Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity, was among the foremost of 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,... 
