The Oriental Interpreter and Treasury of East India Knowledge: A Companion to "The Hand-book of British India."C. Cox, 1848 - 334 էջ |
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... covered with deep pine forests , with small but fertile valleys , producing abundance of grapes , and furnishing pasture for sheep and cattle . Cabul is also mountainous , but has exten- sive plains and forests , though between the city ...
... covered with deep pine forests , with small but fertile valleys , producing abundance of grapes , and furnishing pasture for sheep and cattle . Cabul is also mountainous , but has exten- sive plains and forests , though between the city ...
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... covering . They are a fine handsome race , very fair , many of them having light hair and blue eyes , on which account it has been conjectured that they are the descendants of the Greeks . There seems reason , however , to believe that ...
... covering . They are a fine handsome race , very fair , many of them having light hair and blue eyes , on which account it has been conjectured that they are the descendants of the Greeks . There seems reason , however , to believe that ...
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... covering being composed of a coat of mud , which they plaster all over their bodies , in order to protect themselves from the insects . Their heads and faces they paint with red ochre . They are an exceedingly savage and igno- rant race ...
... covering being composed of a coat of mud , which they plaster all over their bodies , in order to protect themselves from the insects . Their heads and faces they paint with red ochre . They are an exceedingly savage and igno- rant race ...
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... covered with thick jungles , inundated and intersected in all directions by small rivers , lakes , and creeks . In extreme length it may be estimated at 230 miles from north to south , by an average breadth of fifty miles from east to ...
... covered with thick jungles , inundated and intersected in all directions by small rivers , lakes , and creeks . In extreme length it may be estimated at 230 miles from north to south , by an average breadth of fifty miles from east to ...
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... covered with snow . There are hilly tracts covered with woods in different parts of the valley , and the mountains also are covered with forests . The productions of Assam are much the same as those of Bengal , which country it greatly ...
... covered with snow . There are hilly tracts covered with woods in different parts of the valley , and the mountains also are covered with forests . The productions of Assam are much the same as those of Bengal , which country it greatly ...
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The Oriental Interpreter and Treasury of East India Knowledge: A Companion ... Joachim Hayward Stocqueler Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1848 |
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Էջ 143 - This fast is extremely rigorous and mortifying when the month of Ramadan happens to fall in summer, (for the Arabian year being lunar,' each month runs through all the different seasons in the course of thirtythree years), the length and heat of the days making the observance of it much more difficult and uneasy then than in winter. The reason given why the month of Ramadan was pitched on for this purpose is, that on that month the Koran was sent down from heaven.
Էջ 315 - Company, or any Part of the unwritten Laws or Constitution of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland whereon may depend in any Degree the Allegiance of any Person to the Crown of the United Kingdom, or the Sovereignty or Dominion of the said Crown over any Part of the said Territories.
Էջ 315 - ... to make laws and regulations for all persons, whether British or native, foreigners or others, and for all courts of justice, whether established by his majesty's charters or otherwise, and the jurisdiction thereof...
Էջ 326 - Assembly; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, his heirs and successors, by warrant under...
Էջ 311 - An Act for establishing certain Regulations for the better Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, as well in India as in Europe...
Էջ 316 - Saint George or Bombay, the Governor of such Presidency shall act as an extraordinary member of Council ; and as often as the said Council shall assemble...
Էջ 305 - An Act for continuing in the East India Company for a further term the possession of the British territories in India...
Էջ 309 - ... contained to the contrary notwithstanding. XV. Provided also, and be it enacted, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed, construed or taken to extend to...
Էջ 305 - ... for continuing in the East India Company, for a further term, the possession of the British territories in India, together with certain exclusive privileges ; for establishing further regulations for the Government of the said territories, and the better administration of justice within the same) and for regulating the trade, to and from the places within the limits of the said Company's Charter.
Էջ 323 - Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall not be lawful for any...