 Fakirs' houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas, biyals, and other discordant instruments ; while religious mendicants of every Hindoo sect, offering every conceivable...  The American Quarterly Review - Page 1251828Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pages
...their meals. Faqueer's houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas,...very great (I was going to say of lepers also, but I am not sure whether the appearance on the skin may not have been filth and chalk) ; and here I saw... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...their meals. Faqueer's houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas,...very great (I was going to say of lepers also, but I am not sure whether the appearance on the skin may not have been filth and chalk) ; and here I saw... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1828 - 564 pages
...their meals. Faqueer's houses, as they arc called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas,...very great, (I was going to say of lepers also, but I am not sure whether the appearance on the skin may not have been filth and chalk,) and here I saw repeated... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...their meals. Faqueer's houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas,...very great (I was going to say of lepers also, but I am not sure whether the appearance on the skin may not have been filth and chalk) ; and here I saw... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1828 - 532 pages
...their meals. Faqueer's houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas,...sides. The number of blind persons is very great, (f was going to say of lepers also, but I am not sure whether the appearance on the skin may not have... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1828 - 618 pages
...their meals. Faqueer's houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas,...and disgusting and hideous attitudes of penance can shew, literally line the principal streets on both sides. The number «f blind persons i: very great;... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1828 - 412 pages
...their meals. Fakeer's houses, as they iire called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas,...and disgusting and hideous attitudes of penance can shew, literally line the principal streets on both sides. The number of blind persons is very great;... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1828 - 564 pages
...their meals. Fakirs' houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas,...and disgusting and hideous attitudes of penance can shew, literally line the principal streets on both sides. The number of blind persons is very great... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1828 - 558 pages
...cow-dung, disease, matted locks, distorted limbs and disgusting and hideous attitudes of penance can shew, literally line the principal streets on both sides....very great (I was going to say of lepers also, but I am not sure whether the appearance on the skin may not have been filth and chalk) and here I saw repeated... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1829 - 252 pages
...their meals. Fakirs' houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas,...very great (I was going to say of lepers also, but I am not sure whether the appearance on the skin may not have been filth and chalk) ; and here I saw... | |
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