 | Charles Richard Tuttle - 1878 - 716 pages
...Besides the costly offerings of religion, commerce had enriched this favored city. ' In its bazaar the muslins of Bengal and the sabres of Oude were...the jewels of Golconda and the shawls of Cashmere.' Warren Hastings was in need of money. His was the hand by which miyht made riyltt, and, in defiance... | |
 | John Russell Young - 1879 - 710 pages
...All along the shores of the venerable stream lay great fleets of vessels laden with rich merchandise. From the looms of Benares went forth the most delicate silks that adorned the halls of St. James and Versailles ; and in the bazaars the muslins of Bengal and the sabers of Oude... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 684 pages
...All along the shores of the venerable stream lay great fleets of vessels laden with rich merchandise. From the looms of Benares went forth the most delicate...the jewels of Golconda and the shawls of Cashmere. This rich capital and the surrounding tract had long been under the immediate rule of a Hindoo prince... | |
 | J. F. Packard - 1880 - 832 pages
...All along the shores of the venerable stream lay great fleets of vessels laden with rich merchandise. From the looms of Benares went forth the most delicate silks that adorned the halls of St. James and Versailles ; and in the bazaars the muslins of Bengal and the sabres of Oude... | |
 | J. F. Packard - 1880 - 850 pages
...All along the shores of the venerable stream lay great fleets of vessels laden with rich merchandise. From the looms of Benares went forth the most delicate silks that adorned the halls of St. James and Versailles ; and in the bazaars the muslins of Bengal and the sabres of Oude... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 pages
...concrete terms rather than of general and abstract. Macaulay supplies us with a good example : — " From the looms of Benares went forth the most delicate silks that adorned the halls of St. James and of Versailles, and in the bazaars the muslins of Bengal and the sabres of Oude... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 pages
...All along the shores of the venerable stream lay great fleets of vessels laden with rich merchandise. From the looms of Benares went forth the most delicate...silks that adorned the balls of St James's and of the Petit Trianon ; and in the bazaars the muslins of Bengal and the sabres of Oude were mingled with... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1881 - 380 pages
...All along the shores of the mighty Ganges lay great fleets of vessels laden with rich merchandise. From the looms of Benares went forth the most delicate silks that adorned the courts of St. James and Versailles; and in the bazaars the muslins of Bengal and the sabres of Oude... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 634 pages
...went forth the most delicate silks that adorned the balls of St James's and of the Petit Trianon ; and in the bazaars the muslins of Bengal and the sabres of Outle were mingled with the jewels of Golconda and the shawls of Cashmere. " There is thus no lack... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 874 pages
...AH along the shores of the venerable stream lay great fleets of vessels laden with rich merchandise. From the looms of Benares went forth the most delicate...silks that adorned the balls of St James's and of the Petit Trianon : and in the bazaars the muslins of Bengal and the sabres of Oude were mingled with... | |
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Commerce had as many pilgrims as religion. All along the shores of the venerable stream lay great fleets of vessels laden with rich merchandise. From the looms of Benares went forth the most delicate silks that adorned the balls of St. James's and of... 
