The History of British India, Volum 1J. Madden, 1840 |
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Pàgina vi
... European orientalists . We have now a more trustworthy translation of Ferishta , and in the autobi- ography of Baber ... Europe , materials sufficient for the determination of every important point in the Mohammedan history of India ...
... European orientalists . We have now a more trustworthy translation of Ferishta , and in the autobi- ography of Baber ... Europe , materials sufficient for the determination of every important point in the Mohammedan history of India ...
Pàgina xviii
... considerable utility , on the subject of India . In the first place , it appeared to me , that a suffi- cient stock of information was now collected in the languages of Europe , to enable the inquirer to ascer- xviii PREFACE .
... considerable utility , on the subject of India . In the first place , it appeared to me , that a suffi- cient stock of information was now collected in the languages of Europe , to enable the inquirer to ascer- xviii PREFACE .
Pàgina xix
James Mill Horace Hayman Wilson. languages of Europe , to enable the inquirer to ascer- tain every important point in the history of India . If I was right in that opinion , it is evident , that a residence in India , or a knowledge of ...
James Mill Horace Hayman Wilson. languages of Europe , to enable the inquirer to ascer- tain every important point in the history of India . If I was right in that opinion , it is evident , that a residence in India , or a knowledge of ...
Pàgina xx
... Europe , should add those qualifications which can be acquired only by seeing the country and convers- ing with its people . Yet I have no doubt of being able to make out , to the satisfaction of all reflecting minds , that the man who ...
... Europe , should add those qualifications which can be acquired only by seeing the country and convers- ing with its people . Yet I have no doubt of being able to make out , to the satisfaction of all reflecting minds , that the man who ...
Pàgina xxx
... Europeans generally know little or nothing of the customs and manners of the Hindoos . We are all acquainted with some promi- nent marks and facts , which all who run may read : but their manner of thinking ; their domestic habits and ...
... Europeans generally know little or nothing of the customs and manners of the Hindoos . We are all acquainted with some promi- nent marks and facts , which all who run may read : but their manner of thinking ; their domestic habits and ...
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Pàgina 214 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury...
Pàgina 447 - ... then the sole self-existing power, himself undiscerned, but making this world discernible, with five elements and other principles of nature, appeared with undiminished glory, expanding his idea, or dispelling the gloom. He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person.
Pàgina 317 - In seven days from the present time, O thou tamer of enemies, the three worlds will be plunged in an ocean of death, but in the midst of the destroying waves, a large vessel, sent by me for thy use shall stand before thee.
Pàgina 286 - Under this simple form of municipal government, the inhabitants of the country have lived from time immemorial. The boundaries of the villages have been but seldom altered ; and though the villages themselves have been sometimes injured and even desolated by war, famine and disease, the same name, the same limits, the same interests and even the same families, have continued for ages. The inhabitants...
Pàgina 286 - The inhabitants give themselves no trouble about the breaking up and division of kingdoms. While the village remains entire, they care not to what power it is transferred, or to what sovereign it devolves. Its internal economy remains unchanged.
Pàgina 276 - Neque quisquam agri modum certum aut fines habet proprios ; sed magistratus ac principes in annos singulos gentibus cognationibusque hominum , qui una coierunt , quantum et quo loco visum est agri adtribuunt atque anno post alio transire cogunt.
Pàgina 346 - We must not be surprised," he says, " at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern Varanes [Benares] mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways and by a multitude of fanciful names.
Pàgina 127 - England, which were a heap of nonsense, compiled by a few ignorant country gentlemen, who hardly knew how to make laws for the good government of their own private families, much less for the regulating of Companies and foreign commerce.
Pàgina 402 - BY a girl, or by a young woman, or by a woman advanced in years, nothing must be done, even in her own dwelling place, according to her mere pleasure : 148.
Pàgina 480 - But if a good system of agriculture, unrivalled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing and arithmetic, the general practice of hospitality and charity amongst each other, and, above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a civilized people — then the Hindus are not inferior to the nations of Europe;...