Cities of IndiaA. Constable and Company, Limited, 1903 - 350 עמודים |
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Agra Ahmedabad Ajmer Akbar arch architecture Aurangzeb beauty Benares Bengal Bombay Brahman British building built Calcutta capital carved Cawnpore centre century chief church Company court Delhi Diwan-i-Khas dome East Emperor Empire enemy English erected fire flowers Forrest French garden gate gateway Ghat Gingee gold Government Governor graceful ground Gujarat guns hall harem Hastings Hindu honour Humayun hundred India Jehan Jehangir Jey Sing Jeypore King ladies land lofty Lord Lucknow Madras Mahal Mahratta Malabar Point Marwar ment minarets Moghul morning mosque Muhammadan Musjid native noble Nur Jehan officers ornamented Oude palace pass pearls pillars Pondicherry Portuguese princes Queen Raja Rajpoot Rajpootana red sandstone residence rich river Royal sacred sent sepoys Shah Shah Jehan ships Shivaji shrine side siege soldiers stands stone Surat temple throne tion tomb tower town trees troops wall Warren Hastings white marble women writes
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 209 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown; Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
עמוד 250 - They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
עמוד 26 - The impotent man answered him, Sir I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool : but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
עמוד 146 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
עמוד 271 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
עמוד 220 - To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
עמוד 57 - We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make Death proud to take us.
עמוד 198 - Said Jesus, on whom be peace! The world is a bridge, pass over it, but build no house there. He who hopeth for an hour, may hope for eternity; the world is but an hour, spend it in devotion ; the rest is worth nothing.
עמוד 248 - And white robes were given unto every one of them ; and it was said unto them , that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
עמוד 1 - About the House was a delicate Garden, voiced to be the pleasantest in India, intended rather for wanton Dalliance, Love's Artillery, than to make resistance against an invading Foe...