Reflections on the Government of Indostan: With a Short Sketch of the History of Bengal, from MDCCXXXVIIII to MDCCLVI; and an Account of the English Affairs to MDCCLVIII:Printed MDCCLXIII reprinted by W. Strahan iun. for G. Kearsley in Ludgate Street, and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1770 - 121 páginas |
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Página 16 - Gentoos bury their money under ground, often with fuch fecrecy as not to truft even their own children with the knowledge of it ; and it is amazing what they will...
Página 8 - ... polluted. All the different tribes are kept distinct from each other by Insurmountable barriers: they are forbidden to intermarry, to cohabit, to eat with each other, or even to drink out of the same vessel with one of another tribe. Every deviation from these points subjects them to be rejected by their tribe, renders them polluted for ever, and obliges them, from that Instant, to herd with the Hallachores.
Página 17 - Thus the fpring of life is but of fliort duration, and the organs decay before the faculties of the mind can attain to any perfection. Is nature then deficient ? Surely not. We always fee the organs of the body fuited to the climate ; nor do I know a ftronger or more active race of people than the Malays, who live moftly within fix degrees of...
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Página 79 - Mussulmans, shall be left to the Admiral, and Colonel Clive . . . and the rest of the Council, to be disposed of by them to whom they think proper.
Página 17 - They are married in their infancy, and con. fummatc at fourteen on the male fide, and ten or eleven on the female ; and it is common to fee a woman of twelve with a child in her arms. Though a barren woman is rare among them, yet they bear but few children ; for at eighteen their beauty is on the decline, and at twenty-five they are ftrongly marked with age.
Página 94 - Calcutta for bills and receipts, that they have been enabled to carry on the whole trade of India (China excepted) for three years together, without sending out one ounce of bullion. Vast sums have been also remitted through the hands of foreign companies, which weigh in the balance of trade to their amount in our favour with such foreign nations.
Página 12 - ... are kept up by the government for the public benefit^ every man paying for his portion of a drain. The roads are planted with rows of large trees, which add to the beauty of the country, and afford a pleafing and refrefhing...