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Agra Amritsar ancient architecture bamboo bank bathing beautiful Benares bheesti boats body Bombay bridge building burning Calcutta called Cashmere cave charming Darjeeling Delhi distance Durbar east eastward ekka elephants elevation English European face fakirs famous Ganges gardens gate ghat Hill Himalayan Hindu Hugli hundred miles India Jaina Jains Jeypore Jhelum Jutogh Kaaba Kali Lahore land look magnificent Maharajah marble modern Mohammed Mohammedans mosque Mount Abu mountain native northward oriental palace Parsees pass Persia plains portion Position prayer priest Punjab railway Rajabai Tower reach river road sacred scene seen Shiva shrines side Sikh Simla Singh snake square Srinagar stand station stereograph stone street structure Sutlej suttee tain tank temple thousand feet tiger tion tomb tonga Tower of Silence town traveler trees wall women wonderful wood worship
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Page 21 - Unspeakable who sit'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these Thy lowest works, yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 315 - air. Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice? He who by his might looked even over the water-clouds ; he who alone is God above all gods. Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?
Page 184 - to the perpetual memory of the great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, who near this spot were cruelly massacred by the followers of the rebel Nana, and cast, the living with the dead, into the well below, on the 15th day of July, 1857.
Page 55 - The Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples and grottoes, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave.
Page 63 - sunset when warm o'er the lake Its splendor at parting a summer eve throws, Like a bride full of blushes when lingering to take A last look at her mirror, at night ere she goes.
Page 315 - In the beginning there arose the Golden Child. He was the one born Lord of all that is. He established the earth and sky. Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice? He who gives life, he who gives strength ; whose
Page 324 - Vasco da Gama, a nobleman of your household, has visited my kingdom, and has given me great pleasure. In my kingdom there is abundance of cinnamon, cloves, ginger, pepper and precious stones. What I seek from your country is gold, silver, coral and scarlet.
Page 21 - what room is there for regret? "The earth is perishable ; the ocean, the gods themselves, pass away ; how should not that bubble, mortal man, meet destruction? "All that is low must finally perish ; all that is high must ultimately fall ; all compound bodies must end in dissolution, and life is concluded with death. "Unwillingly do the
Page 346 - :—"Be earnest, be thoughtful, be holy. Keep steadfast, watch over your own hearts. He who holds fast to the law and discipline, and faints not, shall cross the ocean of life, and make an end of sorrow. . . . The world is fast bound in fetters. I now give
Page 342 - It is universally allowed to be written with the utmost elegance and purity of language,, in the dialect of the tribe of Koreish, the most noble and polite of all the Arabians, but with some mixture, though very rarely, of