... remarks
APPENDIX.
THE FALL OF THE MOGHUL EMPIRE OF HINDUSTAN.
PART I.
CHAPTER I.
Preliminary Observations on Hindustan and the City of Dehli.
THE country to which the term Hindustan is strictly ... from the borders of Berar to the banks of the Ganges. On
one side they were checked by the Nizam and Haidar, on the other by Shujaa-ud-daula, the young r...
... contain the lamentable story of the persecution, which afflicted the church under the reign
of the impious Theodosius; and the sufferings of their holy confessors might claim the pity of the disinterested
reader. ... over the soul and body of the guilty. The decrees of the
council of Constantinople had ascertained the true standard of the faith; and...
... teach
the first elements of the arts and sciences of Greece. The geometry of Euclid, the music of Pythagoras, the
arithmetic of Nicomachus, the mechanics of Archimedes, the astronomy of Ptolemy, the ... the sovereign of Constantinople. ^54 The Gothic palace of Ravenna
reflected the image of the court of Theodosius or Valentinian. The Praetorian...
... years of servitude, from the persecution of Leo the Isaurian. By the Caesars, the triumphs of
the consuls had been annihilated: in the decline and fall of the empire, the god Terminus, the sacred ... the
practice of seeking, on the banks of the Tyber, their kings, their laws, and the oracles of their fate. The Franks
were perplexed between the na...
... hell." His report of the riches of the land, the effeminacy of the natives, and the disorders
of the government, revived the hopes of Noureddin; the caliph of Bagdad applauded the pious design; ... much
foresight of the seasons, or cultivation of the soil, they gathered the ripe and spontaneous fruits of the
superstition of the times. They...
... way the plausibility of the post-
industrial hypothesis by examining the relationship between changes in
the sectoral composition of the labor force and self-employment using
the same kind of ... the decomposition of these effects
on self-employment, the picture becomes somewhat more complex. In
both the 1970s and the 1980s, the detailed sectors of the econom...