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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Related booksCommon terms and phrasesaccuracy acquired Alexander Alexandria ancient appear Arabian Gulf Arrian arts Asia astronomical attention authors Ayeen Akbery Bactria Brahmins Cape Cape Comorin caravans carried Caspian Caspian Sea China cities coast commerce commodities concerning conquests considerable Constantinople continued conveyed Coromandel coast coun D'Anville deemed degree discovery Disquisition dominion earth East Egypt empire established Europe Europeans extensive formed Ganges geography Greek Herodotus Hindoos Hist hundred idea Indostan Indus inhabitants island Jogue kingdom knowledge known land Mahomedans Malabar Malabar coast manner Megasthenes mentioned merchants mode modern monarchs nations natives nature navigation NOTE observed ocean opinion opulence Pagodas period Persian Persian empire Persian Gulf places Pliny ports Portuguese possession productions progress provinces Ptolemy religion rendered respect river Romans sailed Sanskreet Scylax Sect seems ships silk Strabo Syria thousand tion trade with India various Venetians visited voyage writers Popular passagesPage 340 - Mussulman are equally in His presence. Distinctions of colour are of His ordination. It is He who gives existence. In your temples, to His name the voice is raised in prayer ; in a house of images, where the bell is shaken, still He is the object of adoration. To vilify the religion or customs of other men, is to set at naught the pleasure of the Almighty. Page 174 - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness. Page 220 - The tragedies, comedies, farces, and musical pieces of the Indian theatre, would fill as many volumes as that of any nation in ancient or modern Europe. Page 214 - I want not dominion ; I want not pleasure : for what is dominion and the enjoyments of life, or even life itself, when those for whom dominion, pleasure, and enjoyment were to be coveted, have abandoned life and fortune, and stand here in the field ready for the battle. Page 346 - Instruction, in a series of connected fables, interspersed with moral, prudential, and political maxims. Page 340 - Dharians, which denies the eternity of matter, or of that which ascribes the existence of the world to chance, they all equally enjoyed his countenance and favour ; insomuch that his people, in gratitude for the indiscriminate protection which he afforded them, distinguished him by the appellation of Juggot Grow, Guardian of Mankind. Page 183 - None of these can ever quit his own caste, or be admitted into another. The station of every individual is unalterably fixed ; his destiny is irrevocable ; and the walk of life is marked out, from which he must never deviate. Page 217 - Sacontala is going to the pa" lace of her wedded Lord ; she who drank not, " though thirsty, before you were watered; she who " cropped not, through affection for you, one of " your fresh leaves, though she would have been " pleased with such an ornament for her locks ; she " whose chief delight was in the season when your " branches are spangled with flowers ! Chorus of Wood Nymphs. Page 4 - From the raft or canoe, which first served to carry a savage over the river that obstructed him in the chase, to the construction of a vessel capable of conveying a numerous crew with safety to a distant coast, the progress in improvement is immense. Page 183 - Nor is it between the four different tribes alone that such insuperable barriers are fixed ; the members of each cast adhere invariably to the profession of their forefathers. From generation to generation, the same families have followed, and will always continue to follow, one uniform line of life. References from web pagesARTICULO 4 Bibliographic information
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