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Pàgina xxv
... appears , that in the year 1817 not less than Seven Hundred and Six widows were thus immolated in that part of India . The pro- bability is , that several times that number thus perished , for these returns depended entirely on the will ...
... appears , that in the year 1817 not less than Seven Hundred and Six widows were thus immolated in that part of India . The pro- bability is , that several times that number thus perished , for these returns depended entirely on the will ...
Pàgina xxix
... appears to him as the very abode of the gods . Festivities and splendid services calling forth all the enthusiasm of his country , he sees consecrated to these deities ; all the books he reads are full of their praise in the songs and ...
... appears to him as the very abode of the gods . Festivities and splendid services calling forth all the enthusiasm of his country , he sees consecrated to these deities ; all the books he reads are full of their praise in the songs and ...
Pàgina xxxii
... he passes through 60,000,000 of births before he can return to the human state . He who wholly neglects religion , sinks into some dreadful place of punishment . ་ : From hence it appears , that the greater xxxii PREFACE .
... he passes through 60,000,000 of births before he can return to the human state . He who wholly neglects religion , sinks into some dreadful place of punishment . ་ : From hence it appears , that the greater xxxii PREFACE .
Pàgina xxxiii
William Ward. ་ : From hence it appears , that the greater part of the rewards and punishments connected with this system , are visible in this world , and every ap- pearance of happiness and of misery in men , animals , or trees , is ...
William Ward. ་ : From hence it appears , that the greater part of the rewards and punishments connected with this system , are visible in this world , and every ap- pearance of happiness and of misery in men , animals , or trees , is ...
Pàgina xxxvii
... appear- Dance than among the Hindoos . The author has witnessed scenes of impurity in Hindoo worship which he can never commit to writing . The allusions which he now considers it his duty to make to this disgusting subject will , he ...
... appear- Dance than among the Hindoos . The author has witnessed scenes of impurity in Hindoo worship which he can never commit to writing . The allusions which he now considers it his duty to make to this disgusting subject will , he ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 171 - All the persons employed now lighted their lamps, and ran with them in their hands to fill up their stations in the procession. Some of them had lost their lights and were unprepared, but it was then too late to seek them, and the cavalcade moved forward to the house of the bride, at which place the company entered a large and splendidly illuminated area before the house, covered with an awning, where a great multitude of friends, dressed in their best apparel, were seated upon mats. The bridegroom...
Pàgina 196 - A man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife," is a maxim which is quite contrary to those manners of the Hindoos that are most esteemed.
Pàgina 53 - ... a wife, a son, a servant, a pupil, and a younger whole brother, may be corrected, when they commit faults, with a rope, or the small shoot of a cane...
Pàgina 123 - For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn : but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
Pàgina 171 - Serampore, to which place the bridegroom was to come by water. After waiting two or three hours, at length, near midnight, it was announced, as if in the very words of Scripture, 'Behold, the bridegroom cometh! Go ye out to meet him.
Pàgina 165 - She, who is not descended from his paternal or maternal ancestors, within the sixth degree, and who is not known by her family name to be of the same primitive stock with his father or mother, is eligible by a twice-born man for nuptials and holy union : 6.
Pàgina 281 - Give Me to drink. (For His disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto Him, How is it that Thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Pàgina 141 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Pàgina 127 - Vikrum-poorn, muslins are made by a few families so exceedingly fine, that four months are required to weave one piece, which sells at four or five hundred rupees. When this muslin is laid on the grass, and the dew has fallen upon it, it is no longer discernible...
Pàgina 305 - No stranger can sit down among them without being struck with this temper of malevolent contention and animosity, as a prominent feature in the character of the society. It is seen in every village ; the inhabitants live among each other in a sort of repulsive state, nay it enters into almost every family. Seldom is there a household without its internal divisions and lasting enmities, most commonly too on the score of interest.