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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... hundred years ago . He has there omitted one material circumstance in the procession of Jaggernaut ; that of the volun- tary human sacrifices to this lascivious god ! This can now be too well supplied from a late publication by Dr ...
... hundred years ago . He has there omitted one material circumstance in the procession of Jaggernaut ; that of the volun- tary human sacrifices to this lascivious god ! This can now be too well supplied from a late publication by Dr ...
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... hundred thousand ) would not be missed . I asked a brahmin how many he supposed were present at the most numerous festival he had ever wit- nessed : " How can I tell , " said he , " how many grains there are in a handful of sand ...
... hundred thousand ) would not be missed . I asked a brahmin how many he supposed were present at the most numerous festival he had ever wit- nessed : " How can I tell , " said he , " how many grains there are in a handful of sand ...
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... hundred pounds . The next morning I renewed my journey , and about three miles from Ahmood reached the Dahder , then a small stream , but six years before , when Ragobah's army was encamped on its banks , and I passed a wretched night ...
... hundred pounds . The next morning I renewed my journey , and about three miles from Ahmood reached the Dahder , then a small stream , but six years before , when Ragobah's army was encamped on its banks , and I passed a wretched night ...
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... hundred pounds , was collected , and being vested with a committee , whose economy and assiduity merit the warmest enco- miums , was applied to the relief of as many persons as it was sup- posed could be maintained until the next ...
... hundred pounds , was collected , and being vested with a committee , whose economy and assiduity merit the warmest enco- miums , was applied to the relief of as many persons as it was sup- posed could be maintained until the next ...
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... hundred thousand per- sons had flocked from the country , of whom not more than one in twenty could be maintained for the number of months which must elapse before the soil could render its aid . To calculate upon less than a regular ...
... hundred thousand per- sons had flocked from the country , of whom not more than one in twenty could be maintained for the number of months which must elapse before the soil could render its aid . To calculate upon less than a regular ...
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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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