A Journey From Bengal To England: Through The Northern Part Of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, And Persia And Into Russia By The Caspian-See. In Two Volumes, Volume 1 |
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Page 44
... designed to represent the numberless attributes of the Supreme Deity . FROM the crowd of images which the Bramin has placed in the temples of the Hindoos , they have been branded with the ap- pellation of idolaters . When this mode of ...
... designed to represent the numberless attributes of the Supreme Deity . FROM the crowd of images which the Bramin has placed in the temples of the Hindoos , they have been branded with the ap- pellation of idolaters . When this mode of ...
Page 80
... design and taste , " as well as the exact nicety of the execution , may , in my opinion , vie with the works of European masters . The Hindoos of this day have a slender knowledge of the rules of proportion , and none of perspective ...
... design and taste , " as well as the exact nicety of the execution , may , in my opinion , vie with the works of European masters . The Hindoos of this day have a slender knowledge of the rules of proportion , and none of perspective ...
Page 140
... designs of the minifter , fled from Dehli . * This prince , accompanied by a small body of Mahrattas , levied for a few months , a fcanty contribution in the districts lying to the fouthward of the capital . But being foon involved in ...
... designs of the minifter , fled from Dehli . * This prince , accompanied by a small body of Mahrattas , levied for a few months , a fcanty contribution in the districts lying to the fouthward of the capital . But being foon involved in ...
Page 146
... designs against the English . This was the fecond time that the unfortunate Shah Alum had taken refuge in an English army . Here let me direct the view of the reader to the revolutions , which within no wide compafs of time , have ...
... designs against the English . This was the fecond time that the unfortunate Shah Alum had taken refuge in an English army . Here let me direct the view of the reader to the revolutions , which within no wide compafs of time , have ...
Page 169
... - vernor had not informed the Council of the Vizier's designs on Rohilcund until the latter end of November , * yet the brigade VOL . I. * 1773 . Y marched marched in the following January , and in the short FORSTER'S TRAVELS . 169.
... - vernor had not informed the Council of the Vizier's designs on Rohilcund until the latter end of November , * yet the brigade VOL . I. * 1773 . Y marched marched in the following January , and in the short FORSTER'S TRAVELS . 169.
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