Indika: The Country and the People of India and CeylonHarper, 1891 - 794 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ancient army Aryan Bay of Bengal beautiful became Benares Blavatsky Bombay Brahman Brahmo British Buddhist Calcutta caste Cawnpore century Ceylon chief Christian Chunder Church Clive coast College conquered conquest Delhi Dupleix East India Company elephants England English Europe European faith feet French Ganges Golconda Greek Haidarabad hand Himalayas Hindu hundred immense Indus invasion Keshub Chunder Sen king ladies land language liquor Lord Madras Marhatta ment millions Mission missionaries Mogul emperors Mogul empire Mohammedan mountains mutiny native princes never Nizam opium palace palm Panjab Parsi Persian population Portuguese possession pounds sterling present Provinces Puna race railway reached religion rich river rule rulers sacred says schools Serampore Society soldiers Somaj square miles steamer stone temple thousand tion tombs took tower tree tribes troops Vedas wealth western whole wild worship Zoroaster
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 64 - By bold ambition led, and bolder thirst Of gold. For then from ancient gloom emerged The rising world of trade : the genius, then, Of navigation, that, in hopeless sloth, Had slumbered on the vast Atlantic deep, For idle ages, starting, heard at last The Lusitanian prince ; who, Heaven-inspired, To love of useful glory roused mankind, And in unbounded commerce mixed the world.
Seite 231 - To form the nucleus of a Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour.
Seite 591 - Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, who near this spot were cruelly murdered by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhundu Panth of Bithur, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the xvth day of July, MDCCCLVII.
Seite 493 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled, The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.
Seite 34 - Learn from yon Orient shell to love thy foe, And store with pearls the hand that brings thee woe: Free like yon rock, from base, vindictive pride, Emblaze with gems the wrist that rends thy side; Mark where yon tree rewards the stony shower With fruit nectareous, or the balmy flower, All Nature cries aloud : shall man do less Than heal the smiter, and the railer bless...
Seite 458 - Work of the National Association for Supplying Female Medical Aid to the Women of India.
Seite 538 - ... trees and the grass of the field ; and in June 1770 the Resident at the Durbar affirmed that the living were feeding on the dead.
Seite 638 - In this hall was the famous Peacock Throne, so " called from its having the figures of two peacocks " standing behind it, their tails being expanded, and " the whole so inlaid with sapphires, rubies, emeralds, " pearls and other precious stones of appropriate colours
Seite 395 - Robinson. Wishing to be very civil to him, she, before a large company, asked him divers questions about his man Friday ! Denon, astonished, did not know what to think at first, but at length discovered by her questions that she really imagined him to be Robinson Crusoe. His astonishment and that of the company cannot be described, nor the peals of laughter which it excited in Paris as the story flew like wildfire through the city, and even Talleyrand himself was ashamed of it.1
Seite 638 - Hamin asto, hamin asto, hamin ast." (If on earth be an Eden of bliss, It is this, it is this, none but this.) The mosques of Shah Jahan are of two kinds.
Verweise auf dieses Buch
Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India: A Study in Cultural Geography Surinder M. Bhardwaj Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1983 |