| Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1820 - 540 pages
...numerous body of peasants were collected, with spades in their hands, waiting as they informed us, to be hired for the day, to work in the surrounding fields. This custom which I have never seen in any other part of Asia, forcibly struck us as a mosi happy illustration... | |
| 1823 - 496 pages
...numerous body of peasants were collected, with spades in their hands, waiting,' as they informed us, to be hired for the day, to work in the surrounding fields. This custom, which 1 have never seen in any other part of Asia, forcibly struck us as a most happy illustration... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 630 pages
...city of Humadan there is a maidan or square in front of a large mosque. " Here," says Mr. Morier, " we observed every morning before the sun rose, that a numerous band of pensanti were collected with spades in their hands, waiting, as they informed us, to be hired for the... | |
| Samuel Longhurst - 1833 - 228 pages
...city of Hamadan there is a maidan or square in front of a large mosque. " Here," says Mr. Morier, " we observed every morning before the sun rose, that...were collected with spades in their hands, waiting as they informed us, to be hired for the day to work in the surrounding fields. This custom, which... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1836 - 696 pages
...the city of Ramadan there i«a maidanor square in front of a large mosque. " Here," says Mr. Morier, "we observed every morning before the sun rose, that...peasants were collected with spades in their hands, waitiuz, a* they informed us, to be hired for the day to work in the surrounding fields. Thia custom,... | |
| 1838 - 900 pages
...large maiden, or square, which serves as the market-place. In this square " we observed, every rooming n ? as they iuformed us, to be hired for the day to work in the surrounding fields. The custom, which I... | |
| William Fleming - 1838 - 646 pages
...when he was at Hainadan he observed every morning, before the sun rose, a numerous body of peasants collected with spades in their hands, waiting to be hired for the day to work in the fields — a custom which he never observed in any other part of Asia. It reminded him of our Saviour's... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1840 - 726 pages
...square in front of a large mosque. " Here," says Mr. Morier, "we observed every morning before Ihe sun rose, that a numerous band of peasants were collected with spades in their hands, waiting, as they informed us, to be hired for the day to work in the surrounding fields. This custom, which... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1841 - 892 pages
...square in front of a large mosque. " Here," says Mr. Morier, "we observed every morning before ine sun rose, that a numerous band of peasants were collected with spades in their hands, waiting, as they informed us, to be hired for the day to work in the surrounding fields. This custom, which... | |
| Henry Addington Simcoe - 1842 - 298 pages
...all the day idle?" IN the Market-place at Hainadan we observed every morning, before the sun arose, that a numerous band of peasants were collected with...hired for the day to work in the surrounding fields: and on putting to them, late in the day, the very same question as that of the householder in the parable,... | |
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