 ... late Suraja Doulah, I am told, was very fond of making Huli Fools, though he was a Mussulman of the highest rank. They carry the joke here so far, as to send letters, making appointments in the name of persons who, it is known, must be absent from...  The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 5491793Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1793 - 636 pages
...as * The days for the celebration of thefe ceremonies in England and India do not always corrcfpond. to fend letters making appointments, in the name of...Prefident to be a reprefentation of a lion feizing a young ejephant. Two Inferiptions from the Vindhya Mountains; translated from the Sanfcrit by CHARLES WILKINS,... | |
 | 1797 - 752 pages
...appointments, in the name of perfons who, it is known, mud be abfent from their houfe at the time fixed upon ; and the laugh is always in proportion to the trouble given*." " The leaft inquiry into the ancient coftoms of Perfia, or the minuteft acquaintance with the general aftronomical... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...appointments, in the name of persons who, it is known, must be absent from their house at the time fixed upon ; and the laugh is always in proportion to the trouble given.' The least inquiry into the ancient customs of Persia, or the minutest acquaintance with the general astronomical... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...in the nam« of persons, who, it is known, must be absent from their house at the time fixed upon ; thorough cleaning of their receivers in the morning. How to eat April fool among the French is called " un poiston b 4vril." Their trans• Jamieson, in Nar^e Glossary.... | |
 | Periodicals - 1836 - 706 pages
...in the name of persons who, it is known, must be absent from their houses at the time fixed upon ; and the laugh is always in proportion to the trouble given. The late Surajah Dowlah, although a Mussulman of the highest rank, was very fond of making Huli fools.... | |
 | William Hone - 1839 - 874 pages
...in the name of persons, who, it is known, must be absent from their house at the time fixed upon ; and the laugh is always in proportion to the trouble given."! The April fool among the French it called " MO poition b 4vril." Their trans• Jamiejon, in Nare'« Glossary.... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1840 - 616 pages
...appointments in the name of persons who it is known must be absent from their houses at the lime fixed upon ; and the laugh is always in proportion to the trouble given. The late Surajah IJowlah, although a Mussulman of the highest rank, wa» very fond of making Huli fools.... | |
 | 1840 - 326 pages
...appointments in the name of persons who it is known must be absent from their houses at the time fixed upon ; and the laugh is always in proportion to the trouble given. The late Surajah Dowlah, although a Mussulman of the highest rank, was very fond of making Huli fools.... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - Calendar - 1841 - 512 pages
...in the name of persons, who, it is known, must be absent from their house at the time fixed upon ; and the laugh is always in proportion to the trouble given." The last day of the Huli, March 31, is the general holiday. This festival is held in honor of the new year... | |
 | English fiction - 1845 - 618 pages
...in the name of persons, who, it is known, must be absent from their house at the time fixed upon ; and the laugh is always in proportion to the trouble given.' The last day of the Huli, March 31, is the general holiday. This festival is held in honor of the new year;... | |
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