Picturesque India: A Handbook for European TravellersG. Routledge, 1891 - 624 strani |
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Pogosti izrazi in povedi
Agra Ahmadabad Akbar Alambagh ancient architecture Aurangzeb bazar beautiful Benares Bhartpur Bombay Brahman British Buddhist building built Calcutta capital carved Cawnpur centre century Christian Church coloured cotton Dak bungalow Darjiling decorated Delhi district dome Emperor English erected European famous Fatehpur Sikri feet high feet long finest fortress garden gate gateway Ghat gold Government Gwalior Haidarabad handsome hill Hindu Hindu temples houses India interest Jain Jaipur Jama Masjid journey Khan Lahore lofty Lucknow Madras magnificent Mahal Maharaja Maratha mausoleum miles minarets mission Missionary mosque mountain Muhammadan Musalman Muttra Narbada native ornamented Oudh palace Parsis pavilion Pedder Peshawar picturesque pilgrims pillars plain population railway Raja residence river road rock roof round ruins rupees sacred sculptured Shah Shah Jahan shrine side silver Siva square station stone streets summit surrounded tank tomb tope towers town traveller trees walls white marble yards
Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 269 - Sacred to the perpetual Memory of a great company of Christian people, chiefly Women and Children, who near this spot were cruelly murdered by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhundu Pant, of Bithur, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the xvth day of July, MDCCCLVII.
Stran 229 - Said Jesus, on whom be peace! The world is a bridge, pass over it, but build no house there. He who hopeth for an hour, may hope for eternity; the world is but an hour, spend it in devotion ; the rest is worth nothing.
Stran 88 - The palace is a most imposing pile, of a regular form, built of granite and marble, rising at least a hundred feet from the ground, and flanked with octagonal towers, crovvned with • cupolas.
Stran 88 - The height of this arcaded wall is full fifty feet ; and although all is hollow beneath, yet so admirably is it constructed, that an entire range of stables is built on the extreme verge of the terrace, on which the whole personal force of the Rana, elephants, horse, and foot, are often assembled.
Stran 121 - Firdaus rue zamtn ast — hamin ast to, hamin ast to, hamin ast (If there is a paradise on earth it is this, it is this, it is this).
Stran 205 - Silk mixt with threads of Gold hanging on them. Below there was nothing to be seen but great silken Tapestries very rich, of an extraordinary length and breadth.
Stran 107 - which literally glows with bright and tender colours and exquisite inlaid work, and looks through arches of carved alabaster and clusters of slender columns upon the sleeping lake and the silent mountains.
Stran 371 - Edicts : — 1. Prohibition of the slaughter of animals for food or sacrifice. 2. Provision of a system of medical aid for men and animals, and of plantations and wells on the roadside. 3. Order for a quinquennial humiliation and re-publication of the great moral precepts of the Buddhist faith. 4. Comparison of the former state of things, and the happy existing state under the king. 5. Appointment of missionaries to go into various countries, which are enumerated, to convert the people and foreigners.
Stran 157 - ... or from a pattern. No native, however, works so well from a pattern as spontaneously. His copy will be a fac-simile of the pattern, but stiff, even if it be a copy of his own original work. His hand must be left free in working out the details of decoration, even from the restraint of the examples of his own masterpieces. If he is told simply, " Now I want you to " make something in this style, in your own way, but the best " thing you ever did, and you may take your own time about it, " and....
Stran 428 - Christian church in its arrangements : consisting of a nave and side-aisles, terminating in an apse or semidome, round which the aisle is carried. The general dimensions of the interior are 126 ft.