 | 1924 - 1010 pages
...940 m. from * In his essay on Warren Hastings Macaulay wrote thus: "His first design was on Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity, was among the foremost of Asia. It was Bombay, 429 m. from Calcutta, 78 m. irom Allahabad, 36 m. from Jaunpur, 45 m. from Ghazipur, originally... | |
 | 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,...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,... | |
 | 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,...was commonly believed that half a million of human beings was crowded into thai labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies,... | |
 | 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,...was commonly believed that half a million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of loftly alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies,... | |
 | 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,...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,... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
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Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity was among the foremost of 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... 
