Illustrations to Oriental Memoirs, Volumen2Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1834 |
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... seasons of seed- time and harvest , required frequent excursions into the country , and afforded me an opportunity of ob- serving the state of agriculture in the Guzerat pro- vince , and the manners and customs of the peasants in some ...
... seasons of seed- time and harvest , required frequent excursions into the country , and afforded me an opportunity of ob- serving the state of agriculture in the Guzerat pro- vince , and the manners and customs of the peasants in some ...
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... season , in June . The cotton shrub , which grows to the height of three or four feet , and in verdure re- sembles the currant - bush , requires some months to bring its delicate produce to perfection . It is planted between the rows of ...
... season , in June . The cotton shrub , which grows to the height of three or four feet , and in verdure re- sembles the currant - bush , requires some months to bring its delicate produce to perfection . It is planted between the rows of ...
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... season ; in December and January following they are ready for taking up and drying . There are a few poppy - gar- dens in Guzerat ; the natives are fond of mixing the seeds in cakes and confections . The opium poppy ( papaver somniferum ...
... season ; in December and January following they are ready for taking up and drying . There are a few poppy - gar- dens in Guzerat ; the natives are fond of mixing the seeds in cakes and confections . The opium poppy ( papaver somniferum ...
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... season profusely covered with blossoms of every mingled hue , which they more or less pre- serve through a few succeeding months . Their early fragrance is delicious ; the nightly dews , impregnated by the odours , exhale their short ...
... season profusely covered with blossoms of every mingled hue , which they more or less pre- serve through a few succeeding months . Their early fragrance is delicious ; the nightly dews , impregnated by the odours , exhale their short ...
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... season ; they are as usual generally enclosed with strong masonry , and their banks adorned by banian , mango , and tamarind - trees , to shade the weary traveller , and lessen evaporation , and constructed at the expense of government ...
... season ; they are as usual generally enclosed with strong masonry , and their banks adorned by banian , mango , and tamarind - trees , to shade the weary traveller , and lessen evaporation , and constructed at the expense of government ...
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Página 99 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists.
Página 415 - Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth : for God hath received him.
Página 199 - Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
Página 274 - That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Página 418 - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Página 418 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands...
Página 164 - And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal...
Página 15 - And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.
Página 200 - And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
Página 415 - He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.