The English in Western India: Being the Early History of the Factory at Surat, of Bombay, and the Subordinate Factories on the Western Coast. From the Earliest Period Until the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century. Drawn from Authentic Works and Original DocumentsSmith and Taylor, 1854 - 403 páginas |
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Página 118 - England, which were a heap of nonsense, compiled by a few ignorant country gentlemen, who hardly knew how to make laws for the good government of their own private families, much less for the regulating of Companies and foreign commerce.
Página 26 - t has been held by many, that As Montaigne, playing with his cat, Complains she thought him but an ass, Much more she would Sir Hudibras.
Página 47 - A young Levite — such was the phrase then in use — might be had for his board, a 'small garret, and ten pounds a year...
Página 39 - I'll be torn piece-meal by a horse, Ere I'll take you for better or worse. The Prince of Cambay's daily food Is asp, and basilisk, and toad, Which makes him have so strong a breath, Each night he stinks a queen to death ; Yet I shall rather lie in's arms Than yours on any other terms.
Página 128 - Their principles of action, and the consequent evil practices of the English, forwarded their miseries, and contributed to fill the air with those pestilential vapours that seized their vitals, and speeded their hasty passage to the other world. Luxury, immodesty, and a prostitute dissolution of manners, found still new matter to work upon.
Página 55 - King in free and common soccage, as of the manor of East Greenwich, on the payment of the annual rent of 10/. in gold, on the 30th September, in each year...
Página 171 - ... that the sun of this hemisphere had set, and that the star of the second magnitude being under his meridian, had taken his place; but that it was feared the star of the first magnitude, though under a remoter meridian, would struggle to exalt itself.
Página 139 - New Company ; and that two or three years must end this war, as the Old or the New must give way : that, being veterans, if their servants abroad would do their duty they did not doubt of the victory : that if the world laughed at the pains the two Companies took to ruin each other they could not...
Página 92 - Winter (when they rarely stir) they have a mumjuma, or Wax-cloth to throw over it. Those for Journeying are something stronger than those for the Merchants to ride about the City or to take the Air on ; which with their nimble Oxen they will, when they meet in the Fields, run Races on, and contend for the Garland as much as for an...
Página 26 - And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling.