Invasions of India from Central AsiaR. Bentley and son, 1879 - Počet stran: 344 |
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Strana 154 - Distinctions of colour are of His ordination. It is He who gives existence. In your temples, to His name the voice is raised in prayer ; in a house of images, where the bell is shaken, still He is the object of adoration. To vilify the religion or customs of other men, is to set at naught the pleasure of the Almighty.
Strana 63 - The Most High God has been propitious to us and has now placed us in such a crisis that if we fall in the field, we die the death of martyrs ; if we survive we rise victorious, the avengers of the cause of God. Let us, then, with one accord, swear on God's holy word, that 1 Memoirs of Babur, Emperor of India, abridged by Lt.-Col.
Strana 80 - I lainaiui], his own was what he most valued, devoted his life to heaven as a sacrifice for his son's. The noblemen around him entreated him to retract the rash vow, and, in place of his first offering, to give the diamond taken at Agra, and reckoned the most valuable on earth : that the ancient sages had said, that it was the dearest of our worldly possessions alone that was to be offered to heaven. But he persisted in his resolution, declaring that no stone, of whatever value, could be put in competition...
Strana 159 - The time is out of joint : — 0, cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right ! — Nay, come, let 's go together.
Strana 295 - You have eaten my salt," he said, " these thirteen years. If, as is too plain, you are resolved to seek a new master, grant me but one favour in requital for that long period of maintenance and kindness — enable me to die with honour. Stand by the brother of Futteh Khan...
Strana 52 - M'aruf Farmuli, and a number of other amirs who had been in a state of open rebellion for two years before the death of Ibrahim.
Strana 63 - Noblemen and soldiers! Every man that comes into the world is subject to dissolution. When we are passed away and gone, God only survives, unchangeable. Whoever comes to the feast of life, must, before it is over, drink from the cup of death. He who arrives at the inn of mortality, must one day inevitably take his departure from that house of sorrow — the world. How much better is it to die with honour than to live with infamy!
Strana 307 - ... to that view. We have enough of difficulties and enough of croakers without adding to the number needlessly. I have just seen a letter from Mr. Dallas to Captain Johnson, in which he says the state of the country is becoming worse and worse every day. These idle statements may cause much mischief, and, often repeated as they are, they neutralise my protestations to the contrary. I know them to be utterly false as regards this part of the country, and I have no reason to believe them to be true...
Strana 235 - Can it gain belief, that this scene of misery proved entertainment to the brutal wretches without ? But so it was ; and they took care to keep us supplied with water, that they might have the satisfaction of seeing us fight for it, as they phrased it, and held up lights to the bars, that they might lose no part of the inhuman diversion.
Strana 24 - I beheld a new world. The grass was different, the trees different, the wild animals of a different sort, the birds of a different plumage, the manners and customs of the wandering tribes (Us or eels and uluses) of a different kind. I was struck with astonishment ; and, indeed, there was room for wonder...