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 48
... received of yellow and red powder ; a composition of turmeric , chunam , or chalk , & c . , which are generally appropriated to the goddess as well as to Hindoo women . Brah- mins and Hindoos , when they visit a strange pagoda , bring ...
... received of yellow and red powder ; a composition of turmeric , chunam , or chalk , & c . , which are generally appropriated to the goddess as well as to Hindoo women . Brah- mins and Hindoos , when they visit a strange pagoda , bring ...
Page 52
... received your letter , of the 10th of January , by the — , as also a num- ber of tracts and reports , for which the society return you their most humble thanks . The two volumes of Sermons we have safe . The society are at this time all ...
... received your letter , of the 10th of January , by the — , as also a num- ber of tracts and reports , for which the society return you their most humble thanks . The two volumes of Sermons we have safe . The society are at this time all ...
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... received mutual encouragement and renewed strength , who were enabled to gird up the loins of their minds , who thanked God and took courage , will all remember in eternity this as the house of Evangelist , and the season when with joy ...
... received mutual encouragement and renewed strength , who were enabled to gird up the loins of their minds , who thanked God and took courage , will all remember in eternity this as the house of Evangelist , and the season when with joy ...
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... received the story of this Vellore mutiny from Captain J- , who was in the 69th at the time , and was one of the few survivors . He described his own utter help- lessness and alarm , -how he fled into a go - down , or cellar , pursued ...
... received the story of this Vellore mutiny from Captain J- , who was in the 69th at the time , and was one of the few survivors . He described his own utter help- lessness and alarm , -how he fled into a go - down , or cellar , pursued ...
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... receiving instruction under the be- nign auspices of Christian benevolence . My first journey to Chittoor introduced me to a select circle of Christians , whose zeal and love , whose cooperation and activity , took me by sur- prise ...
... receiving instruction under the be- nign auspices of Christian benevolence . My first journey to Chittoor introduced me to a select circle of Christians , whose zeal and love , whose cooperation and activity , took me by sur- prise ...
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