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 carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely... The countries of the world - Page 184by Robert Brown - 1876Full view - About this book
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 pages
...alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and haleonies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes elung on, though it often regulates and moderates these...eradicated. The plan of eradicating them by conceits like hathing-places along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude of... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay baron Macaulay - 1886 - 196 pages
...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...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 420 pages
...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...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 934 pages
...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...which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-placts along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude of... | |
| William Minto - 1892 - 582 pages
...hundreds. The traveller could scarce make hi* way tlinmgh the press of holy mendicants, and not less noly bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these fwHrmiug haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps of an... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 934 pages
...sanctity, was among the foremost of Asia. It was commonly believed that half a million. of human beings was 0[.\.]. bathing-places along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude of... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 262 pages
...was among the foremost of Asia. J It was commonly believed that half a million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich...flights of steps which descended from these swarming 20 haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable... | |
| Larkin Dunton - 1897 - 340 pages
...minarets and balconies and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. " The traveler could scarcely make his way through the press of holy...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... | |
| Mary Cate Smith - 1897 - 348 pages
...minarets and balconies and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. "The traveler could scarcely make his way through the press of holy...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 726 pages
...shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. Tne traveller could scarcely make his way through the...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... | |
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