 | Edward Thomson - 1870 - 276 pages
...his " Warren Hastings " is still correct, only that he puts the population too high. He says it is "a city which, in wealth, population, dignity, and...commonly believed that half a million of human beings were crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 pages
...Rohillas ; 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,...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... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1873 - 494 pages
...from Macaulay of the kind of detail that arises from great knowledge : — "His first design was on Benares, a city which, in wealth, population, dignity,...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 pages
...Rohillas ; 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,...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... | |
 | 1878 - 924 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 684 pages
...Ilohillas ; 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,...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... | |
 | J. F. Packard - 1880 - 832 pages
...represents it, as we saw it to-day. " Benares," says Macaulay, in his essay on Warren Hastings, " was a city which,- in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity, was among the foremost in Asia. It was commonly believed that half a million human beings were crowded into that labyrinth... | |
 | J. F. Packard - 1880 - 840 pages
...represents it, as we saw it to-day. "Benares," says Macaulay, in his essay on Warren Hastings, " was a city which, in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity, was among the foremost in Asia. It was commonly believed that half a million human beings were crowded into that labyrinth... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 828 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 labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1881 - 380 pages
...nations. Hastings' first design, in order to procure means for carrying on the war in the Carnatic, was on Benares, a city which in wealth, population, dignity, and sanctity, was among the foremost in Asia. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindus from every province where the Brahminical... | |
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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,... 
