 | 1848 - 608 Seiten
...voyage to Surat. without horror mention to what a pitch all vicious enormities were grown in this place. Luxury, immodesty, and a prostitute dissolution of...that no vice was so detestable as not to be extremely common, whereby Satan obtained a more despotic authority in the hearts of the Christians, than he did... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1859 - 216 Seiten
...prostitute dissoluteness of manners, find still new matter to work upon. Wickedness was constantly upon the improvement, and grew to such a perfection,...that no vice was so detestable as not to be extremely common." The Company did all in their power to suppress this highly reprehensible course of conduct... | |
 | James Douglas - 1883 - 590 Seiten
...of action and the consequent evil practices of the English forwarded their miseries and contributed to fill the air with those pestilential vapours that...prostitute dissolution of manners found still new matters to work upon. — Anderson's Western India, 1854. THE MUSLIM, 1694. Mahomed Hashim Khali Khan,... | |
 | James Mackenzie Maclean - 1889 - 720 Seiten
...are not wholly imputable to an impure contagion of the air, or the gross infection of the elements. Luxury, immodesty, and a prostitute dissolution of...that no vice was so detestable as not to be extremely vicious" (the reverend gentleman's language is here somewhat confused) ; " whereby Satan obtained a... | |
 | Joseph Gerson Cunha - 1900 - 414 Seiten
...action, and the consequent evil practices of the English, forwarded their miseries, and contributed to fill the air with those pestilential vapours that...of manners, found still new matter to work upon." All kinds of vice were in the superlative degree, and the most detestable sins were indulged into our... | |
 | India. Census Commissioner - 1901 - 172 Seiten
...action, and the consequent evil practices of the English, forwarded their miseries, and contributed to fill the air with those pestilential vapours that...and a prostitute dissolution of manners found still now matter to work upon." These closing years of the seventeenth and opening years of the eighteenth... | |
 | Arnold Wright - 1918 - 368 Seiten
...consequent evil practices of the English," he proceeded, " forwarded their miseries and contributed to fill the air with those pestilential vapours that...dissolution of manners found still new matter to work upon." In that awful time the English power in Bombay was almost overwhelmed by its own moral degradation.... | |
 | Eyre Chatterton - 1924 - 414 Seiten
...principles of action, and consequent evil practices of the English, forwarded their miseries and contributed to fill the air with those pestilential vapours that...of manners, found still new matter to work upon." It must be admitted that the Court of Directors did what they could to arrest the progress of vice... | |
 | John Ovington - 1994 - 354 Seiten
...mention,' says our pious author, ' to what a pitch all vicious enormities were grown in this place . . . Luxury, immodesty and a prostitute dissolution of manners found still new matter to work on.' Even the chaplains were little better than their flock.1 The natural unhealthiness of the island,... | |
 | 1882 - 544 Seiten
...voyage to Surat without horror mention to what a pitch all vicious enormities were grown in this place. Luxury, immodesty, and a prostitute dissolution of...the improvement, and grew to such a perfection, that novice was so detestable as not to be extremely common, whereby Satan obtained a more despotic authority... | |
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Their principles of action, and the consequent evil practices of the English, forwarded their miseries, and contributed to fill the air with those pestilential vapours that seized their vitals, and speeded their hasty passage to the other world. Luxury,... 