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Page 167 - escaped from the Palace during the confusion which ensued upon its destruction, and fled for refuge to the court of Idal Khan , who received him kindly and promised to assist him'.
Page 37 - ... extensive learning, the pains they take to acquire the languages of the several nations they visit, the opportunities they have by their skill in the arts and sciences. . . the familiarity with the inhabitants, their mixing with and very often long abode amongst them — these, I say, must necessarily give our Jesuits a much more perfect insight into the genius and character of a nation than others who visit coasts only and that merely on account of traffic or other lucrative motives.
Page 262 - Tinnevelly, pp. 62-3. a contented and prosperous people ; while a high state of the arts and of knowledge is abundantly testified by the exquisite design and workmanship discoverable in many of the temples and statues, as well as by the grasp and mastery of the principles of irrigation, a complicated and difficult branch of the engineering art displayed in their irrigation system.
Page 31 - ... upon the historian's facts as history in any sense. It is not an historian's question, for instance, whether Napoleon was right or wrong in his conduct at Jaffa, or Nelson in his behaviour at Naples. That is a matter for the student of ethics, or the religious dogmatist, to decide.
Page 261 - A government whose wealth and whose tastes are manifested by the temples and statues of Tinnevelly, and whose readiness to employ all its resources for the benefit of its people, as proved by the number and nature of the irrigation works which it completed, implies
Page 285 - ... only lamentations and imprecations are heard against the authors of such cruelties. To make matters worse, the whole country has been devastated by a kind of deluge : in the provinces of Satyamangalam, Trichinopoly, Tanjore, and Gingi, the inundations have carried away whole villages (P. 273) with all their inhabitants. This scourge of divine anger was soon followed by famine, pestilence, and, at last, brigandage which infests all the kingdom. The capital, once so flourishing, is no longer recognizable...
Page 272 - ... being their fortune or social position. Among the latter were two brothers of the Nayak, whom he had shut up in these prisons, after pulling out their eyes to remove all desire on their side of succeeding him (the Nayak). At last, the Muhammadans arrived at Vallamkottai and found only the walls there ; they put a small garrison in it and burst out on the country. They have already been, for several months, in possession of this beautiful and fertile country ; no one knows now what their ulterior...
Page 249 - Nelson says that eight maraikkals would weigh about, ninety-six pounds and they could be had for a fanom or 2\ pence. 'Now in 1866 and the two or three years preceding it, the average price of good rice was about twenty pounds for a Rupee. Consequently, whereas a penny bought some forty odd pounds of good rice at the commencement of the eighteenth century, it has been an equivalent for only five-sixths of a pound during the last few years.
Page 17 - This series of events appear to have happened in the last years of the century and the beginning of the next.
Page 321 - ... famine. Nevertheless, the rains had fallen in the usual season ; and the waters which rush from the mountains would have entered the Coloran sooner than ordinary, had not the king of Maissoor stopped their course by a prodigious mole he raised and which extended the whole breadth of the canal. His design was to turn off the waters by the bank in order that these flowing into the canals dug by him might refresh his dominions. But while he thus resolved to make his own lands fruitful and thereby...