Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque: During Four-and-twenty Years in the East, Band 1P. Richardson, 1850 - 523 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Agra Akbar Allahabad amongst amusement animal Arab arrived ayha bamboo bazār bearers beautiful Begam Benares birds boats Brahmans brass brought Calcutta called carried Cawnpore ceremony cholera cloth cold Colonel Gardner colour curious daughter Delhi delightful Doorga dress elephant English European feet fire flowers four Ganges garden gentleman goddess gold ground hand head Hindoo holy horse hot winds husband idol India Jumna killed King ladies lamps leaves look Lord William Bentinck Lucnow marriage mem sahiba miles month morning Muharram Mulka Musulmans native never night Oriental Proverbs ornamented Oude Papamhow picturesque pinnace pooja Prag Prince prophet rain remarkable Resident river roomal rupees sacred salām sent servants side silver sipahis sketch snake sort stone stream suttee Taziya temple tents Thugs tomb took toolsee tree ULEE verandah vessel whilst white marble woman women zenāna
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 12 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Seite 237 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean?
Seite 379 - Jesus, on whom be peace, has said, The world is merely a bridge ; you are to pass over it and not to build your dwellings upon it.
Seite 9 - Quito, are about fourteen feet from the tip of one wing to that of the other, and the smallest only eight.
Seite 279 - A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Seite 206 - Rheede has exhibited in a coarse delineation of its leaves only — its flowers, in their perfect state, are among the loveliest objects in the vegetable world ; and appear, through a lens, like minute rubies and emeralds in constant motion from the least breath of air. It is the sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle ; and its usefulness added to its beauty induced the Hindus, in their earliest ages, to believe that it was the mansion of a benevolent nymph.
Seite 436 - ... the wicked from the good; nor is God disposed to make you acquainted with what is a hidden secret, but God chooseth such of his apostles as he pleaseth, to reveal his mind unto: believe therefore in God, and his apostles; and if ye believe, and fear God, ye shall receive a great reward.
Seite 142 - ... she is forbidding fear. She wears two dead bodies for ear-rings, and a necklace of skulls; and her tongue hangs down to her chin. The hands of several giants are hung as a girdle round her loins, and her tresses fall down to her heels. Having...
Seite 363 - Women and Slaves The world and all things in it are valuable, but the most valuable thing in the world is a virtuous woman.
Seite 379 - ... death ; and is perhaps one of the finest in the world. It is five hundred and seventy-five feet square, and surrounded by a high wall, with a magnificent cloister all around within. On the outside, is a magnificent gateway, at the top of a noble flight of steps twentyfour feet high. The whole gateway is one hundred and twenty feet in height, and the same in breadth, and presents beyond the wall five sides of an octagon, of which the front face is eighty feet wide. The arch in the centre of this...