 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - 1841 - 750 pàgines
...enough to convince us that the state of India under Shah Jehan was one of great ease and prosperity. * * Tavernier, who had repeatedly visited most parts of...rather as a father over his family and children," and goes on to commend the strictness of his civil government, and to speak in high terms of the security... | |
 | 1854 - 796 pàgines
...rashness which permitted him to say of a hiilf-civilised sovereign within historic times, "that he reigned not so much as a king over his subjects, but rather as a father over his family;" but we really must deplore it. Had he confined himself to the tales of Arian and Strabo — had he... | |
 | University magazine - 1854 - 790 pàgines
...rashness which permitted him to say of a hnlf-civilised sovereisri within historic times, " that he reigned not so much as a king over his subjects, but rather as a father over his family;" but we really must deplore it. Had he confined himself to the tales of Arian and Strabo — had he... | |
 | 1854 - 788 pàgines
...the rashness which permitted him to say of a half-civilised sovereign within historic times, "that ho reigned not so much as a king over his subjects, but rather us a father over his family;" but we really must deplore it. Had he confined himself to the tales of... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 534 pàgines
...were i-till in full force; and Tavernier, who visited India during this rcipu, says that Shahjehan "' reigned not so much as a king over his subjects, but...rather as a father over his family and children." The ujaguificeuce of his court was unequalled even in the tales of Oriental pomp. The famous ' peacock... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 532 pàgines
...foroe; and Tavernier, who visited India during this reipn, says that Shahjehan " reigned not so much aa a king over his subjects, but rather as a father over his family and children." The magnificence of his court was unequalled even in the tales of Oriental pomp. The famous ' peacock... | |
 | Henry George Keene - 1879 - 292 pàgines
...view for which he is cited as an authority by the modern pessimists. " Shahjahan," says our baron, " reigned not so much as a king over his subjects, but...rather as a father over his family and children." " This great king," he is called by Tavernier, " during whose reign there was such a strictness in... | |
 | 1891 - 304 pàgines
..." Shahjahan," says the traveller Tavernier, wbi visited his court, " reigned not so much as a IUE; over his subjects but rather as a father over his family and children... This great king," as he elsewhere says, " in whose time there was such strictnes in the civil government... | |
 | Henry George Keene - 1893 - 498 pàgines
...administration the Europeans of those days give a favourable view. Thus Tavernier declares that the Emperor " reigned not so much as a king over his subjects, but rather as a father over his family." And elsewhere he speaks of him as a great ruler, " during whose reign there was such a strictness in the... | |
 | Henry George Keene - 1906 - 406 pàgines
...administration the Europeans of those days give a favourable view. Thus Tavernier declares that the Emperor " reigned not so much as a king over his subjects, but rather as a father over his family." And elsewhere he speaks of him as a great ruler, " during whose reign there was such a strictness in the... | |
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Jehan reigned not so much as a King over his subjects, but rather as a father over his family and children. 
