 | William Ferguson Beatson Laurie - 1999 - 398 pages
...vivid " Chapter," writes : — " Mr. Macaulay has given the following graphic description of '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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - 2000 - 768 pages
...of the Right Hon. Warren Hastings (gv., London, 1841): His [Hastings'] first design was on Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity,...that half a million of human beings was crowded into thai labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels,... | |
 | 1842 - 576 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... | |
 | Michael Edwardes - 1976 - 228 pages
...his fruitful mind by any means exhausted. His first design was on Benares, a city which in wealth, 15 population, dignity, and sanctity, was among the foremost...of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. 20 The traveller could... | |
 | 1842 - 574 pages
...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 human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of loftly alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred... | |
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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, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely... 
