Life in the Mission, the Camp, and the Zenáná, Or, Six Years in India, Volumen2Redfield, 1853 |
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Página 205 - This preservation photocopy was made and hand bound at BookLab, Inc., in compliance with copyright law. The paper is Weyerhaeuser Cougar Opaque Natural, which exceeds ANSI Standard Z39.48-1984.
Página 70 - The grave and masculine superstition of the Asiatic nations, which employed the hot blood of its youth in conquering all the fairest regions of the earth, spent its long and bright manhood in the calm and worthy occupations of government and intelligence. During four centuries, the successors of Mahomet were the only men the human race could at all boast of. In the later season of its maturity, and through a long course of...
Página 58 - ... to show it to him. We accordingly turned back, and three or four black slaves came to conduct me into the harem. They introduced me to the chief Lady, Zinat Mahal Begum, or Ornament of the Palace, who struck me as old and ugly, and then led me to the king's apartment, where the old monarch was smoking his huqa. He is slender and feeble-looking, but with a simple kindly face, though he took no notice of me when I came in, which I suppose is etiquette. His bedstead, with four silver posts, was...
Página 59 - The old king seemed pleased, and asked me to drawn the queen, to which I willingly agreed. She was so long in adorning herself, that it was dark soon after I began. They brought out boxes full of jewels ; she put on about five pair of earrings besides necklaces, a nosering with a string of pearls connecting it with the ear, rings for the fingers, besides ornaments for the head. Then she retired to change her dress, some of the women holding up the cotton rezai (wadded quilt) in which her majesty...
Página 59 - She came back dressed in red muslin spotted with gold, and sat down, huqa in hand, with two female servants with peacock fans, or rather clubs, behind her. When I looked closer at her, I saw that she could not be old, but she is very fat, with large though unmeaning eyes, and a sweet mouth. Her hair, like that of all the other women, of whom there must have been about fifty present, was a la chinoise. Her little son, Mirza Jewan Bakht, came and sat beside her, but as soon as I offered to sketch him,...
Página 59 - The old king came m, and a man with a black beard, whom I took for one of his sons, and who remained standing ; but the women sat and jested freely with his Majesty. He approved of the sketches. The little prince is he, whom the king wishes to have declared heir-apparent, though he is the youngest of his ten or twelve sons. He has no less than thirty daughters.
Página 63 - Tatta in Scinde, where he had proceeded to suppress an insurrection, in AD 1351, having reigned for 27 years. Of his character, one historian says, " he left the reputation of one of the most accomplished princes and most furious tyrants that ever adorned or disgraced human nature.
Página 130 - Schools often turn out ill, and thus bring much greater discredit on the Christian Church than would be possible if they had never been nominal members of it.
Página 70 - ... long and bright manhood in the calm and worthy occupations of government and intelligence. During four centuries, the successors of Mahomet were the only men the human race could at all boast of. In the later season of its maturity, and through a long course of time, the steadiness, the gravity, and the immovable rigour, which often mark the temper of man from the moment when his activity declines, and until infirmity is confessed, belonged to Islamism, both western and eastern.
Página 59 - I sat down for a moment, and then told them that the camera must be put up out of doors. They led me into the balcony, but that would not do ; so they took me to a terrace where I put it up. The old king seemed pleased, and asked me to draw the queen, to which I willingly agreed. She was so long in adorning herself, that it was dark soon after I began. They brought out boxes full of jewels; she put on about five pair of earrings, besides necklaces, a nose-ring with a string of pearls connecting it...