The Hindoos, Volume 1C. Knight, 1834 - Hindus |
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Page 76 - I have never seen an architectural view which pleased me more from its richness and variety, as well as the proportions and general good taste of its principal features.
Page 50 - Soon after the rice harvest is over, the cotton bushes put forth a beautiful yellow flower, with a crimson eye in each petal ; this is succeeded by a green pod, filled with a white stringy pulp ; the pod turns brown and hard as it ripens, and then separates into two or three divisions • Book iii.
Page 39 - Asiatic Researches' (1788) contained an exhaustive paper on them by W. Chambers. This was followed in the fifth (1708) by another by Mr. Goldingham. In the second volume of the ' Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society ' there appeared what was then considered a most successful attempt to decipher the inscriptions there, by Dr.
Page 55 - ... on his withered body only the vessels and tendons necessary to connect its frame together. She has furnished him with a strong jaw, that he may grind the hardest aliments; but, lest he should consume too much, she has straitened his stomach, and obliged him to chew the cud.
Page 74 - ... hundred and forty-two feet high. Four balconies sweep round the pillar at different heights from the ground, and an irregular spiral staircase leads to the summit, which is crowned with a majestic cupola of red granite. It seems to have been intended as a minaret to a William Jones, vol. ix. p. 459. ' The throne was supported upon six large feet of massive gold, set with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds. But its principal ornaments were two peacocks, whose feathers were imitated by a crest of pearls...
Page 46 - Goa,' pronounced he, with a slow articulate voice. He had never seen it before, and began to read with eagerness. He had not proceeded far, before he betrayed evident symptoms of uneasiness. He turned hastily to the middle of the book, and then to the end, and then ran over the table of contents at the beginning, as if t?
Page 15 - ... hills, and again leaves all in darkness, when in an instant it re-appears in vivid and successive flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll, and is only silenced by some nearer peal which bursts on the ear with such a sudden and tremendous crash as can scarcely fail to strike the most insensible heart with awe. At length the thunder ceases, and nothing is heard but the continual pouring of the rain and...
Page 15 - It generally begins with violent blasts of wind, which are succeeded by floods of rain. For some hours lightning is seen almost without intermission: sometimes it only illuminates the sky, and shows the clouds near the horizon ; at others, it discovers the distant hills, and again leaves all in darkness, when in an instant it reappeal's in vivid and successive flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day.
Page 55 - Camel resist or avoid the attacks of the lion, the tyger, or even the wolf? To preserve the species, therefore, nature has concealed him in the depths of the vast deserts, where the want of vegetables can attract no game, and whence the want of game repels every voracious animal. Tyranny must have expelled man from the habitable parts of the earth, before the Camel could have lost his liberty.
Page 9 - Attock twenty-four boats only are required; but at other places in the neighbourhood as many as thirty-seven are used. Such a bridge can only be thrown across the Indus from November to April, on account of the velocity of the stream being comparatively diminished at that season; and even then the manner of fixing the boats seems incredible. Skeleton frameworks of wood, filled with...