 | History - 1795 - 532 pages
...connection, either to any known history, or the mythology of the Gentoos. They had continued in a tolerable state of preservation and wholeness, considering the...suffering any idols but their own, they must have been at even some pains to maim and deface them, as they now remain, considering the hardness of the stone.... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 430 pages
...the remotenefs of their antiquity, until the arrival of the Portuguefe, who made themfelves mafters of the place ; and in the blind fury of their bigotry, not fuffering any idols but their own, they mud have even been at fome pains to maim and deface them, as... | |
 | Characters and characteristics - 1805 - 596 pages
...tolerable stale of preservation, considering the remoteness of their antiquity, till the arr rival of the Portuguese, who made themselves masters of...not suffering any idols but their own, they must, considering the hardness of the stone, have been at considerable pains to maim and deface them, in... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 858 pages
...connection either to any knowa history or the mythology of the Gentoos. They had continued in a tolerable state of preservation and wholeness, considering the...place ; and in the blind fury of their bigotry, not snlV. i ¡иг any idols but their own, they must have even been at some pains to maim and deface them,... | |
 | 1852 - 672 pages
...connexion either to any known history or the mythology of the Gentoos. They had continued in a tolerable state of preservation and wholeness, considering the...suffering any idols but their own, they must have been even at some pains to deface them as they now remain, considering the hardness of the stone. It is... | |
 | Treasury - 1853 - 276 pages
...connexion either to any known history or the mythology of the Gentoos. They had continued in a tolerable state of preservation and wholeness, considering the...suffering any idols but their own, they must have even been at some pains to maim and deface them as they now remain, considering the hardness of the... | |
 | James Burgess - Archaeology - 1871 - 114 pages
...remembered, but materially exaggerated in his time: he says the figures " had " also continued ina tolerable state of preservation and wholeness, considering the...any idols but their own, they " must have been at even some pains to maim and deface them, as they now remain, consi" dering the hardness of the stone,... | |
 | James Burgess - Archaeology - 1871 - 138 pages
...remembered, but materially exaggerated in hia time: he says the figures " had " also continued ina tolerable state of preservation and wholeness, considering the...who made themselves masters of the " place, and in che blind fury of their bigotry, not suffering any idols but their own, they " must have been at even... | |
 | Joseph Gerson Cunha - Bassein (Burma : District) - 1876 - 434 pages
...of the pillars." Then follows Grose, who, materially exaggerating the latter circumstance, says : " In the blind fury of their bigotry, not suffering any idols but their own, they (the Portuguese) must have been at even some pains to maim and deface them (the figures), as they now... | |
 | Sir Jivanji Jamshedji Modi - Iranian philology - 1928 - 276 pages
...remembered, but materially exaggerated in bis time: he says the figures ' had also continued in a tolerable state of preservation and wholeness considering the...antiquity until the arrival of the Portuguese, who made themrselves masters of the place, and in the blind fury of their bigotry not suffering any idols but... | |
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But these representations have no reference or connection, either to any known history, or the mythology of the Gentoos. They had continued in a tolerable state of preservation and wholeness, considering the remoteness of their antiquity, until the arrival... 