| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 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... | |
| John Francis Davis - 1871 - 116 pages
...of their frequent ablutions. Mr. Macaulay has given the following graphic description of ' Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity,...commonly believed that half a million of human beings * The compact in question was in reality a general treaty for furnishing a force to protect him agaiiist... | |
| John Daniel Morell - 1873 - 494 pages
...Macaulay of the kind of detail that arises from great knowledge : — "His first design was on Benares, a city which, in wealth, population, dignity, and...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1874 - 1100 pages
...was on Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity, was among the foremost in Asia. It was commonly believed that half a million of human beings was crowded into that o labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to... | |
| James Grant - 1876 - 602 pages
...have breathed their last at vast distances from the waters of " Holy Mother Ganga." At Benares, '' it was commonly believed that half a million of human...labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines and minarets, balconies, and carved cornices, to which the sacred apes dung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely... | |
| Robert Brown - 1876 - 362 pages
...It was commonly believed," writes the famous historian, " that half a million 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 traveller could scarcely... | |
| 1878 - 924 pages
...his essay on Warren Hastings, is, for the most part, applicable to its present state. He speaks of it as " a city, which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity was among the foremost in Asia. It was commonly believed that halfa million human beings were crowded into that labyrinth... | |
| John Russell Young - 1879 - 752 pages
...sanctity was among the foremost in Asia. It was commonly believed that half a 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 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...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... | |
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