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 - 478 pages |
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Page vii
... river - Elephants , horses , and camels - Hospi- tality of the resident at Muddoor - Seringapatam in its vicissitudes- Palaces - Harems , mosques , gardens , tombs - Unhealthiness - Mysore the modern capital - The residency gardens ...
... river - Elephants , horses , and camels - Hospi- tality of the resident at Muddoor - Seringapatam in its vicissitudes- Palaces - Harems , mosques , gardens , tombs - Unhealthiness - Mysore the modern capital - The residency gardens ...
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... river not only where it could be forded , but where a deep and precipitous stream rolled with a torrent's power , and made it hazardous for boats to cross : but the elephants stemmed the torrent with ease , and passed over in a straight ...
... river not only where it could be forded , but where a deep and precipitous stream rolled with a torrent's power , and made it hazardous for boats to cross : but the elephants stemmed the torrent with ease , and passed over in a straight ...
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... river : the channel is here about half a mile in breadth , so broad for the supply of water as to make it appear , except in the rainy season , almost dry ; the exhausted stream flows in two scanty channels . This ancient capital of the ...
... river : the channel is here about half a mile in breadth , so broad for the supply of water as to make it appear , except in the rainy season , almost dry ; the exhausted stream flows in two scanty channels . This ancient capital of the ...
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... river in the monsoon seasons . The former palace of the nabobs , except a gateway still entire , is in ruins ; a Mohammedan mosque of attractive splendour , and four or five other places , built for the same religion , afford proofs of ...
... river in the monsoon seasons . The former palace of the nabobs , except a gateway still entire , is in ruins ; a Mohammedan mosque of attractive splendour , and four or five other places , built for the same religion , afford proofs of ...
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... river , the streams whereof pervade and moisten the whole social soil : the female character may be regarded as the fountain , the swelling tide which nourishes and bears onward the dispositions , the attachments , and the desires of ...
... river , the streams whereof pervade and moisten the whole social soil : the female character may be regarded as the fountain , the swelling tide which nourishes and bears onward the dispositions , the attachments , and the desires of ...
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appearance Arcot Armenian attended Bangalore benevolent Bentinck bishop Bombay brahmins British Calcutta Cananore carried cast character choultrie Christ christian church coast committee Company's contiguous cultivated district elephant employed English language enlightened European faith feet female gentlemen gospel Guzerat heathen Hindoo honour horse hundred Hyder Hyder Ali idol India influence inhabitants institution instruction intercourse Jesus knowledge labours land liberal literature London Missionary Society Lord Lord William Bentinck Madras Mahratta ment messenger at arms miles mind mission missionaries Mohammedan moral Mysore native occupied officers pagoda palanquin Parsees passed pleasure Portuguese possession preach present priests prince principles province rajah received religion religious rendered residence Rhenius river sacred Sanscrit scene schools seemed seminary Seringapatam servants society soldiers station stone superstition supply Surat Syrian teachers temple thousand tion Tippoo town traveller trees truth village walls worship zeal