| Mary Cate Smith - 1897 - 346 pages
...given us this beautiful description of Benares: "His [Warren Hastings'] first design was on Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 726 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,...Asia. It was commonly believed that half a million of numan beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 684 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... | |
| Mary Cate Smith - 1898 - 346 pages
...given us this beautiful description of Benares : " His [Warren Hastings'] first design was on Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity...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... | |
| Lucy Evangeline Guinness, Lucy E. Guinness-Kumm - 1898 - 272 pages
...Chapter XIX THE FOCUS OF HEATHENISM IN INDIA It was commonly believed that half a million of human beings 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 822 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,...among the foremost of Asia. It was commonly believed thiit half a million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines,... | |
| Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 728 pages
...treat a victory at this election as a victory for Tariff Reform. Westm. Gaz., No. 5478 16. million, f It was commonly believed that half a million of human...beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys. MAC., War. Hast., (627a). ministry, i. The ministry is afraid to refuse. Westm. Gaz., No. 5277, 26.... | |
| Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 724 pages
...treat a victory at this election as a victory for Tariff Reform. Westm. Gaz., No. 5478 16. million, f " was commonly believed that half a million of human...beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys. MAC., War. Hast., (627a). ministry, i. The ministry is afraid to refuse. Westm. Gaz., No. 5277, 26.... | |
| Hendrik Poutsma - 1928 - 556 pages
...Looking Backward, Ch. XVII, 85. Liverpool contains nearly half a million people. CHARLOTTE M. MASON. ii. It was commonly believed that half a million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofiy alleys. MAC, War. Hast., (627 a). The meeting on Kennington Common, so far from being a gathering... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1907 - 196 pages
...were the resources of his fruitful mind by any means 10 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... | |
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