 | 1793 - 612 pages
...cuftom; but it is unqueftionably very ancient, and is ilill kept up even in great towns, though lefs in them than in the country : with us it is chiefly confined to the lower clafles of people; but in India high and low join in it; and the late SHU JA' u L DAUI.AH, I am told,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1793 - 636 pages
...cuftom; but it is unqucrtionably very ancient, and is ftill kept up even in great towns, though lefs in them than in the country: with us it is chiefly confined to the lower clafles of people; but in India high and low join in it; and the late SHUJ A' UL DAULAH, I am told,... | |
 | 1797 - 752 pages
...cuftom ; but it is unqueftionably very ancient, and is ftill kept up even in great towns, though lefs in them than in the country : with us, it is chiefly confined to the lower clafs of people, but in India high and low join in it ; and the late Suraja Doulah, I am told, was... | |
 | Great Britain - 1797 - 980 pages
...cuftom ; but it is unqutftionably very ancient, and is ftill kept up even in great towns, though Ici» in them than in the country : with us, it is chiefly confined to the lower clafe of people, but in India high and low join in it ; and the late Suraja Doulah, I am told, was... | |
 | Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - Asia - 1801 - 540 pages
...cuftom; but it is unqueftionably very ancient, and is ftill kept up even in great towns, though lefs in them than in the country. With us it is chiefly confined to the lower clafles of people; but in India high and low join in it; and the late Shujaul Daulaht lam told, was... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...that month, indicate some traces of the Iluli: I have never yet heard any account of the origin of the English custom ; but it is unquestionably very ancient,...country : with us it is chiefly confined to the lower classes of people ; but in India high and low join in it ; and the late Shuja ul Daulah, 1 am told,... | |
 | Henry DIMOCK - 1806 - 284 pages
...cuetoei, but it is unquestionably very antient, and is still kept up even in grea^ towns; t&p^gti 1евД in them than in the country. With us it is chiefly confined to the lower class of peop|ti, bu,t in India high and loyy- jolu in it';- and i!i !;ia .Baraja l^o^lab^ l^m-told, \\--."Very... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - India - 1812 - 404 pages
...March, and the last day is the general holiday. I have never yet heard any account of the origin of this English custom; but it is unquestionably very ancient,...even in great towns, though less in them than in the coun» try: with us, it is chiefly confined to the lower class of people, but in India high and low... | |
 | Peter Roberts - Folklore - 1815 - 398 pages
...March, and the last day is the general holyday. I have never yet heard any account of the origin of this English custom ; but it is unquestionably very ancient,...but in India high " and low join in it, and the late Surajah " Dowlah, I am told, was very fond of " making Huli fools, though he was a " Mussulman of the... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 696 pages
...March, and the last day is the general holiday. I have never yet heard any account of the origin of this English custom,; but it is unquestionably very ancient,...chiefly confined to the lower class of people, but in Ihdia high and low join in it, and the late Surajah Dowlah, I am fold, rt-as 'very •fond of making... | |
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I have never yet heard any account of the origin of this English custom; but it is unquestionably very ancient, and is still kept up even in great towns, though less in them than in the country. 
