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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrases17th century ancient Anglo-Indian appears applied Arabic Batuta Bengal Bengal Presidency bird Bombay Calcutta called Canara century Ceylon chief China Chinese cloth coast coin corruption Court custard-apple derived Diary Diet district Dutch East elephant Elliot English etymology European fruit Fryer Garcia de Orta given gives gold Guzerat Hamilton Hind Hindu Hindustani Hist horse Ibid Ibn Batuta India Indies island Java Javanese kind King Kingdom known land language Letters London Lord Madras Mahommedan Mahr Malabar Malacca Malay meaning merchants Moors mountains native officers origin pagoda Pegu Persian Polo Port Portugal Portuguese probably province Punjab quotation quoted river rupees Sanskrit says seems seqq servants ships Skeat Sumatra Tamil term tion town trade Travels tree tribe vessel village vols Voyage whilst word writers Popular passagesPage 334 - It is neither acid, nor sweet, nor juicy; yet one feels the want of none of these qualities, for it is perfect as it is. It produces no nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined to stop. In fact to eat Durians is a new sensation, worth a voyage to the East to experience. Page xxxiii - The Mishmee Hills : an Account of a Journey made in an Attempt to Penetrate Thibet from Assam, to open New Routes for Commerce. Second Edition. With Four Illustrations and Map. Post 8vo. Cloth, price IDS. 6d. Cornhill Library of Fiction (The). Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 3$ . 6d. per volume. Half-a-Dozen Daughters. Page 496 - Yes, honour calls! — with strength like steel He put the vision by. Let dusky Indians whine and kneel; An English lad must die. And thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed; Vain, those all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because... Page 68 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between... Page xlii - HIBBERT LECTURES ON THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF RELIGION, as illustrated by the Religions of India. Page 29 - Nor, creeping through the woods, the gelid race Of berries. Oft in humble station dwells Unboastful worth, above fastidious pomp. Witness, thou best Anana, thou the pride Of vegetable life, beyond whate'er The poets imaged in the golden age : Quick let me strip thee of thy tufty coat, Spread thy ambrosial stores, and feast with Jove! Page xx - Language, tho' much corrupted, yet it is the Language that most Europeans learn first, to qualify them for a general Converse with one another, as well as with the different Inhabitants of India. Page 204 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And, Betty, give this cheek a little red. Page 453 - They are idolaters, and are dependent on nobody. And I can tell you the quantity of gold they have is endless ; for they find it in their own islands [and the king does not allow it to be exported. Page 514 - That in all suits regarding inheritance, marriage, and caste, and other religious usages or institutions, the laws of the Koran with respect to Mahomedans, and those of the Shaster with respect to Gentoos, shall be invariably adhered to. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarEnglishization and contact linguisticsBRAJ B KACHRU - 1994 - World Englishes Mystery of the forbidden fruit: Historical epilogue on the origin ...J Kumamoto, R W Scora, H W Lawton, W A Clerx - 1987 - Economic Botany Phantasmagoric AestheticsZahid Chaudhary - 2005 - Cultural Critique References from web pagesHenry Yule, ac Burnell, Hobson-Jobson: a glossary of colloquial Anglo- Desultor » Blog Archive » Hobson Jobson JSTOR: Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words ... Hobson-Jobson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bibliomania: Free Online Literature and Study Guides EVE’S TONGUE: Adamic language, patois, pidgin and Hobson-jobson ... Amardeep Singh: The 'Pariah' Needs a 'Cummerbund': More Indian/English Hobson-Jobson: A glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and ... Hobson-Jobson : A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and ... The U of MT -- Mansfield Library langfing Misc. Pidgin/Creole Bibliographic information
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