... the mountains which separate India from Tartary ; and running through the dominions of the Great Mogul, discharges itself by several mouths into the bay of Bengal. It is not only esteemed by the Indians for the depth and pureness of its stream, but... Indian life: a tale of the Carnatic - Page 258by Mary Anna Hartley - 1840Full view - About this book
| George Gregory - 1798 - 582 pages
...fanctity which they believe to be in its waters. It is vifited annually by feveral hundred thoufand pilgrims, who pay their devotions to the river as to a god; for favage fimplicity is always known to miftake the bleflings of the deity for the deity himfelf. They... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 pages
...Indians for the depth and pureness of its stream, but for a supposed sanctity which they believe to be in its waters. It is visited annually by several hundred...the blessings of the Deity for the Deity himself. They carry their dying friends from distant countries, to expire on its banks ; and to be buried in... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 910 pages
...Indians for the depth and pureness of its stream, but for a supposed sanctity which they believe to be in its waters. It is visited annually by several hundred...the blessings of the Deity for the Deity himself. They carry their dying friends, from distant countries, to expire on its banks, and to be buried in... | |
| Jacob Abbot Cummings - 1820 - 346 pages
...depth and pureness of its stream, but for a supposed sanctity, which they believe its waters possess. It is visited annually by several hundred thousand...always known to mistake the blessings of the Deity fov the Deity himself. brated Nile, which from its source among the mountains of the Moon, in Upper... | |
| Jacob Abbot Cummings - 1821 - 366 pages
...depth and -pureness of its stream, but for a supposed sanctity, which they believe its waters possess. It is visited annually by several hundred thousand pilgrims, who pay their devotiotis to the river, as to a god ; for savage simplicity is always known to mistake the blessings... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 pages
...Indians for the depth and pureness of its stream, but for a supposed sanctity which they believe to be in its waters. It is visited annually by several hundred...the blessings of the Deity, for the Deity himself. They carry their dying friends from distant countries, to expire on its banks ; and to be buried in... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...Indians for the depth and pureness of its stream, but for a supposed sanctity which they believe to be in its waters. It is visited annually by several hundred...for savage simplicity is always known to mistake the blessing's of the Deity, for the Deity himself. They carry their dying friends from distant countries,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1862 - 702 pages
...Indians for the depth and pureness of its stream, but for a supposed sanctity which they believe to be in its waters. It is visited annually by several hundred thousand pilgrims, who pay their devolions to the river as to a god : for savage simplicity is always known to mistake the blessings... | |
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