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 - 1913 - 842 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... | |
| 1868 - 1204 pages
...was crowded into that labyriuth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines and minarets, and balconies, anil carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds....which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathingplaces along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude of... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 542 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...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... | |
| Alden Hyde Clark - 1922 - 222 pages
...Macaulay says about Benares, and I am sure you will feel that it applies to what you are seeing today. "The traveller could scarcely make his way through...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... | |
| 1924 - 1010 pages
...other places of pilgrimage, so much so that 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... | |
| Warner Taylor - 1927 - 668 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... | |
| James Kennedy - 1993 - 428 pages
...could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants and not less holy bulls. The firoad and stately flights of steps which descended from...Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude of worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindus from every... | |
| William Ferguson Beatson Laurie - 1999 - 398 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... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - 2000 - 768 pages
...foremost of Asia. It was commonly believed that half a million of human beings was crowded into thai labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and...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... | |
| 1842 - 576 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... | |
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