Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825 (with Notes Upon Cyelon); an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826; and Letters Written in India, Volume 2J. Murray, 1844 |
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Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India from ..., Volume 2 Reginald Heber Volledige weergave - 1846 |
Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From ..., Volume 2 Reginald Heber Volledige weergave - 1829 |
Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From ..., Volume 2 Reginald Heber Volledige weergave - 1829 |
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Agra appearance arrived Baroda beautiful Bengal better Bheels Bishop blessing boats Bombay Brahmins British building bungalow called Candy Captain carved chaplain Charun Christian Church clergy Colombo considerable cultivated David Ochterlony dear Deckan Delhi district dress elephants Elphinstone England English European favourable Government Guzerât handsome heard hills Hindoo Hindoostanee Hindostan hope horses India inhabitants island journey jungle Jyepoor Kairah kind less Lord Madras Maharatta Malwah manner matchlocks means ment miles missionaries morning Mussulman native Neemuch neighbourhood neighbouring officers ornamented palanquins Parsee party passed Patans persons plain Poonah poor Portuguese present pretty principal raja Rajpoots received REGINALD CALCUTTA residence river road round ruins Salsette seemed seen sent Sepoys servants side Sir Edward Barnes suwarrs temple tents thakoor tion told town Travancore trees usual vakeel village wild
Populaire passages
Pagina 276 - And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the Church : but if he neglect to hear the Church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a Publican.
Pagina 21 - Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Pagina 267 - ... to his care, and from attempting whose conversion to Christianity he seems to have abstained, from a feeling of honour. His other converts were between six and seven thousand, besides those which his predecessors and companions in the cause had brought over.
Pagina 267 - Schwartz and his fifty years' labour among the Heathen, the extraordinary influence and popularity which he acquired, both with Mussulmans, Hindoos, and contending European governments, I need give you no account, except that my idea of him has been raised since I came into the south of India. I used to suspect that, with many admirable qualities, there was too great a mixture of intrigue in his character, that he was too much of a political prophet, and that the veneration which the heathen paid,...
Pagina 270 - Commit thy way unto the Lord, and trust in Him, and He shall bring it to pass." Especially I have been desirous to hear from thee of the good estate of our brethren, the faithful in Malabar, the bishops, presbyters, and deacons; and also of my own children in Christ, the English presbyters who sojourn among you at...
Pagina 228 - ... a system which tends, more than anything else the Devil has yet invented, to destroy the feelings of general benevolence, and to make nine-tenths of mankind the hopeless slaves of the remainder ; and in the total absence of any popular system of morals, or any single lesson which the people at large ever hear, to live virtuously and do good to each other.
Pagina 146 - ... in the degree in which he employs the natives in official situations, and the countenance and familiarity which he extends to all the natives of rank who approach him, he seems to have reduced to practice, almost all the reforms which had struck me as most required in the system of government pursued in those provinces of our Eastern Empire which I had previously visited...
Pagina 10 - The earnest desire of this good man is to be ordained a clergyman of the church of England, and if God spares his life and mine, I hope, during the Ember weeks in this next autumn, to confer orders on him.
Pagina 138 - ... at the East end) are very singular and beautiful. Each consists of a large cap, like a bell, finely carved, and surmounted by two elephants with their trunks entwined, and each carrying two male and one female figure, which our guides again told us were viragees. The timber ribs which decorate the roof, whatever their use may have been, are very perfect, and have a good effect in the perspective of the interior, which is all extremely clean and in good repair, and would be, in fact, a very noble...
Pagina 228 - I have taken some pains to inform myself, really appears to me the worst, both in the degrading notions which it gives of the Deity ; in the endless round of its burdensome ceremonies, which occupy the time and distract the thoughts, without either instructing or interesting its votaries; in the filthy acts of uncleanness and cruelty, not only permitted but enjoined, and inseparably interwoven with those ceremonies...