Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" Hundreds of devotees came thither every month to die: for it was believed that a peculiarly happy fate awaited the man who should pass from the sacred city into the sacred river. "
The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times - Page 10
by Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 388 pages
Full view - About this book

Essays on Clive and Hastings

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911 - 346 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province 10 where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither...
Full view - About this book

The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1868 - 1206 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps, which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathingplaces along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps...crowds of pious Hindus from every province where the Brahminicol faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither every month to die ; for it was believed...
Full view - About this book

Literary Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 842 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither...
Full view - About this book

Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon Including AllBritish ...

John Murray - 1919 - 1012 pages
...broad and stately llights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowd-s of pious Hindoos from every Erovince where the Hrahrninical faith was nown. Hundreds of devotees came hither...
Full view - About this book

Theme-building

Charles Henshaw Ward - 1920 - 584 pages
...The broad and stately nights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathingplaces along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude of worshipers. (5) The schools and tempJes drew crowds of pious Hindus from every province where the Brahminical...
Full view - About this book

Historical Essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 542 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude of worshipers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindus from every province where the Brahmanical...
Full view - About this book

Essays of the Past and Present

Warner Taylor - 1927 - 668 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither...
Full view - About this book

Sketches of Some Distinguished Anglo-Indians: Including Lord Macaulay's ...

William Ferguson Beatson Laurie - 1999 - 398 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps, which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither...
Limited preview - About this book

Tales and Sketches: 1843-1849

Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - 2000 - 768 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province . . . Hundreds of devotees came thither every month to die — for it was...
Limited preview - About this book

The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 44

1842 - 574 pages
...broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps...worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF