Continental India: Travelling Sketches and Historical Recollections [1822-1835] Illustrating the Antiquity, Religion and Manners of the Hindoos, the Extent of British Conquests, and the Progress of Missionary Operations, 2. köideT. Ward & Company, 1840 |
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Page 22
... liberal subscription was given for the building of a commodious chapel and suitable school - room , which were speedily erected . Both the collector and the humble serjeant have gone to their account ; but the good which they did lives ...
... liberal subscription was given for the building of a commodious chapel and suitable school - room , which were speedily erected . Both the collector and the humble serjeant have gone to their account ; but the good which they did lives ...
Page 25
... liberal hospitality in India , and the traveller is friendless and obscure indeed who does not share the most courteous welcome as he traverses the country . It is , moreover , a religious duty enjoined by Hindoo systems , and practised ...
... liberal hospitality in India , and the traveller is friendless and obscure indeed who does not share the most courteous welcome as he traverses the country . It is , moreover , a religious duty enjoined by Hindoo systems , and practised ...
Page 47
... liberal friend , a brahmin , has furnished me with a descrip- tion of one service , where he was a listener . shall give it in a condensed form . " As soon as the party entered the sanctuary , they were op- pressed with heat , from its ...
... liberal friend , a brahmin , has furnished me with a descrip- tion of one service , where he was a listener . shall give it in a condensed form . " As soon as the party entered the sanctuary , they were op- pressed with heat , from its ...
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... liberal habits of intercourse : when I proposed sending back the borrowed palanquin , Mr. McL— begged me to wait till he would himself send for it , a distance of nearly forty miles . His was the nearest European residence in a ...
... liberal habits of intercourse : when I proposed sending back the borrowed palanquin , Mr. McL— begged me to wait till he would himself send for it , a distance of nearly forty miles . His was the nearest European residence in a ...
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... liberal salaries . To estimate the judicial business of the courts here , civil as well as criminal , I may mention that the Madras presidency is placed under the superintendence of four circuit courts ; and , besides one of these , a ...
... liberal salaries . To estimate the judicial business of the courts here , civil as well as criminal , I may mention that the Madras presidency is placed under the superintendence of four circuit courts ; and , besides one of these , a ...
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