 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 842 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...balls of St. James's and of Versailles ; and, in the bazars, the muslins of Bengal and the sabres of Oude were mingled with the jewels of Golconda and the... | |
 | John Murray - 1919 - 1012 pages
...aloni; 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's and of Versailles; and in the bazaars, the muslins of Bengal and the satires of... | |
 | Charles Henshaw Ward - 1920 - 584 pages
...along the shores of the venerable stream lay great fleets of vessels laden with rich merchandise. (10) 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 sabers of Oudh were mingled with... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 298 pages
...: the coupon Biblical expression. See Genesis xvi, 10. 1.26. Looms. In Warren Hastings he writes : "From the looms of Benares went forth the most delicate...adorned the balls of St. James's and of Versailles. ..." — Warren Hastings, p. 103, 1. 13. P. 60, 1. 4. This idea is thus expanded in Warren Hastings... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 542 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 sabers of Oude were mingled with... | |
 | 1924 - 1010 pages
...rich merchandise. From the looms of Benares went forth the most delicate silks that adorned the halls of St James's and of Versailles ; and in the bazaars,...and the sabres of Oude were mingled with the jewels fCfolconda and the shawls of Cashmere. " any one of whatever creed, and however great his misdeeds,... | |
 | James Kennedy - 1993 - 428 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'*, and of Versailles ; and in the bazars the muslins of Bengal and t'.,e sabres of Oude were... | |
 | Diana L. Eck - 1999 - 460 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. H Nineteenth-century visitors to Baņaras were not disappointed in the fabled bazaars described by... | |
 | William Ferguson Beatson Laurie - 1999 - 398 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... | |
 | 1842 - 576 pages
...footsteps of an innumerable multitude of worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was...silks that adorned the balls of St James's and of the Petit Trianon ; and in the bazars, the muslins of Bengal, and the sabres of Oude, were mingled... | |
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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... 
