The chief excellency of Hindustan is, that it is a large country, and has abundance of gold and silver. India - Strana 171autor/autoři: Josiah Conder - 1830Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
| Sir Henry Yule - 1866 - 610 str.
...way in which Sultan Baber speaks of India, concluding with the summary that " the chief excellence of Hindustan is that it is a large country, and has abundance of gold and silver" (p. 333), and such I fear have been the sentiments of many others from further west. I have seen a... | |
| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - 1872 - 664 str.
...food or bread in their bazars, no haths or colleges, no candles, no torches, not a candlestick." " The chief excellency of Hindustan is, that it is a...silver. The climate during the rains is very pleasant. On some days it rains ten, fifteen, and even twenty times. During the rainy season, inundations come... | |
| Edward Singleton Holden - 1895 - 408 str.
...good food or bread, no (public) baths or colleges, no candles, no torches, not a candle-stick even." " The chief excellency of Hindustan is that it is a...large country, and has abundance of gold and silver," and many skilled artisans. In Agra alone, he daily employed 680 mechanics, and he kept 1491 stone-masons... | |
| Pringle Kennedy - 1905 - 334 str.
...and the other they throw over their heads." As to the advantages of the country he tells us* — " The chief excellency of Hindustan is, that it is a...of gold and silver. The climate during the rains is * Baber'e Memoirs, p. 333. very pleasant. On some days it rains ten, fifteen, and even twenty times.... | |
| K. Rajeswara Row - 1924 - 424 str.
...women too have only a lung." The only good points which Babar could find in favour of Hindnsthan were that it is a large country, and has abundance of gold and silver and there is also an aban dance of workmen of every profession and trade for any work and employment."... | |
| E.S. Holden - 2004 - 372 str.
...good food or bread, no (public) baths or colleges, no candles, no torches, not a candle-stick even." " The chief excellency of Hindustan is that it is a...large country, and has abundance of gold and silver," and many skilled artisans. In Agra alone, he daily employed 680 mechanics, and he kept 1491 stone-masons... | |
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