Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abriged from a Series of Familiar Letters Written During Seventeen Years Residence in India ... Observations ... Africa and South America ...Bensley, 1813 |
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... humanity on that occasion .. town of Jamboseer .. Gurry .. Hindoo houses . . Coolies , a tribe of robbers .. poetical description of a Hindoo village . manner of travelling .. brahminic kites and vultures .. Pariar dogs .. erroneous ...
... humanity on that occasion .. town of Jamboseer .. Gurry .. Hindoo houses . . Coolies , a tribe of robbers .. poetical description of a Hindoo village . manner of travelling .. brahminic kites and vultures .. Pariar dogs .. erroneous ...
Side 7
... human sacrifices to this lascivious god ! This can now be too well supplied from a late publication by Dr. Claudius Buchanan , who was an eye - witness of the horrid scene he describes ; which I shall curtail as much as possible ...
... human sacrifices to this lascivious god ! This can now be too well supplied from a late publication by Dr. Claudius Buchanan , who was an eye - witness of the horrid scene he describes ; which I shall curtail as much as possible ...
Side 11
... sanc- tified spot , and cast into the river : because it forms an essential part of the Hindoo system that each element shall have a portion of the human body at its dissolution . When there is no hope of recovery , the patient 11.
... sanc- tified spot , and cast into the river : because it forms an essential part of the Hindoo system that each element shall have a portion of the human body at its dissolution . When there is no hope of recovery , the patient 11.
Side 13
... human frame at its disso- lution at least the author of the Night Thoughts has thus beau- tifully expressed himself on a similar subject . " The moist of human frame the sun exhales ; " Winds scatter , through the mighty void , the dry ...
... human frame at its disso- lution at least the author of the Night Thoughts has thus beau- tifully expressed himself on a similar subject . " The moist of human frame the sun exhales ; " Winds scatter , through the mighty void , the dry ...
Side 19
... human nature can attain , unenlightened by the Sun of Righteousness . Many of their writings clearly indicate the sublimity of their conceptions . Strabo , probably , gives the general opinion of those ancient sages : when he asserts ...
... human nature can attain , unenlightened by the Sun of Righteousness . Many of their writings clearly indicate the sublimity of their conceptions . Strabo , probably , gives the general opinion of those ancient sages : when he asserts ...
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Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abriged from a Series of Familiar Letters ... James Forbes Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1813 |
Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abriged from a Series of Familiar Letters ... James Forbes Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1813 |
Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abriged from a Series of Familiar Letters ... James Forbes Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1813 |
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