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 51
... heathen or Romish influence on religious subjects . I met some of them for religious instruction , but they were subjected to much of the listlessness or enmity of the native mind . The objects of the soldiers ' society were expressed ...
... heathen or Romish influence on religious subjects . I met some of them for religious instruction , but they were subjected to much of the listlessness or enmity of the native mind . The objects of the soldiers ' society were expressed ...
Page 70
... heathen . In this district , of which Chittoor has for some years been the centre , there are nine daily schools for Hindoo children , and three Sunday- schools . In the former are 321 , and in the latter 146 children , receiving ...
... heathen . In this district , of which Chittoor has for some years been the centre , there are nine daily schools for Hindoo children , and three Sunday- schools . In the former are 321 , and in the latter 146 children , receiving ...
Page 73
... heathen - to the mendicant , the prisoner , and the young ; he was the principal support of an English service every Sabbath , in the court - house , for the European families ; with him were asso- ciated two or three civilians and some ...
... heathen - to the mendicant , the prisoner , and the young ; he was the principal support of an English service every Sabbath , in the court - house , for the European families ; with him were asso- ciated two or three civilians and some ...
Page 78
... heathen temples indiscriminately ; they may have been the dwelling - places of Hindoo ascetics , who , hermit - like , sought the mountain wilderness , and by their practice of austerities hoped to gain the rewards of piety from a ...
... heathen temples indiscriminately ; they may have been the dwelling - places of Hindoo ascetics , who , hermit - like , sought the mountain wilderness , and by their practice of austerities hoped to gain the rewards of piety from a ...
Page 83
... heathen abomination to a share in their own miserable pageantry , and can the next day actually return the sad compliment by a willing and kindred homage to the dead and sordid gods of old Indian idolatry . There are many of the Roman ...
... heathen abomination to a share in their own miserable pageantry , and can the next day actually return the sad compliment by a willing and kindred homage to the dead and sordid gods of old Indian idolatry . There are many of the Roman ...
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