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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... tion shall become incorruptible and glorious - the grave is only a temporary veil to the love , sweet- ness , goodness which shone in their person ! These two bereavements had more than a casual influence on my future course . I ...
... tion shall become incorruptible and glorious - the grave is only a temporary veil to the love , sweet- ness , goodness which shone in their person ! These two bereavements had more than a casual influence on my future course . I ...
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... tion , than as a becoming fane for sacred worship . To look at it outwardly you would conclude it fit to contain some fifteen hundred or two thousand ; but I have repeatedly attended when the congre- gation might be fifty people . The ...
... tion , than as a becoming fane for sacred worship . To look at it outwardly you would conclude it fit to contain some fifteen hundred or two thousand ; but I have repeatedly attended when the congre- gation might be fifty people . The ...
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... tion . But at length , I trust , through grace , I have obtained mercy . O , this is such a wonder ! I can hardly believe what I feel . Sometimes I have such a sense of the Saviour's love on my heart , that I cannot help but praise him ...
... tion . But at length , I trust , through grace , I have obtained mercy . O , this is such a wonder ! I can hardly believe what I feel . Sometimes I have such a sense of the Saviour's love on my heart , that I cannot help but praise him ...
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... tion of English females , by the thoughtless ribaldry of their countrymen . Contiguous to this , but surrounded by a small tope , or jungle , is a pundal , or rustic pagoda : rising from an elevated floor , twelve pillars of granite sup ...
... tion of English females , by the thoughtless ribaldry of their countrymen . Contiguous to this , but surrounded by a small tope , or jungle , is a pundal , or rustic pagoda : rising from an elevated floor , twelve pillars of granite sup ...
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... tion was also a choultrie , a few miles to the left of Bal - Chitty's . I was then in company with an original , an Irish traveller . We both were on horseback , and , besides our horse - keepers , had a coolie and a Madras servant ...
... tion was also a choultrie , a few miles to the left of Bal - Chitty's . I was then in company with an original , an Irish traveller . We both were on horseback , and , besides our horse - keepers , had a coolie and a Madras servant ...
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