Some Passages in the Life of an Adventurer in the Punjaub: Originally Published in the Delhi Gazette ...Gazette Press, 1842 - Počet stran: 275 |
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Strana 11
... British , under guarantee of holding , unmolested , his possessions , the value of which was about two hundred thousand pounds per annum . After this arrangement he retired from public life , and was virtually a Prince in his own ...
... British , under guarantee of holding , unmolested , his possessions , the value of which was about two hundred thousand pounds per annum . After this arrangement he retired from public life , and was virtually a Prince in his own ...
Strana 15
... British ? It may be said truly that the worst parts of his rule are those common to oriental despots , while the favorable points arise from his individual character . Personally , Ranjit Singh is brave , and has slain many an ene- my ...
... British ? It may be said truly that the worst parts of his rule are those common to oriental despots , while the favorable points arise from his individual character . Personally , Ranjit Singh is brave , and has slain many an ene- my ...
Strana 16
... British troops . And his whole conduct shewed that he had from the out- set penetration enough to estimate justly his own power and that of the English . I must say a few words as to those whom I found the immedi ate personal favorites ...
... British troops . And his whole conduct shewed that he had from the out- set penetration enough to estimate justly his own power and that of the English . I must say a few words as to those whom I found the immedi ate personal favorites ...
Strana 17
... British ter- ritory , is now a coarse , vulgar - looking man , though when he was one of the hundred picked soldiers appointed to the night guard of the Maharajah , he was a fine handsome young fellow . This was before the elevation of ...
... British ter- ritory , is now a coarse , vulgar - looking man , though when he was one of the hundred picked soldiers appointed to the night guard of the Maharajah , he was a fine handsome young fellow . This was before the elevation of ...
Strana 21
... British rule . My reader must forgive me , if I have given him too long a dose of history and politics , but I could not without this preface make the rest of my tale intelligible . The result of my review of those around me was , that ...
... British rule . My reader must forgive me , if I have given him too long a dose of history and politics , but I could not without this preface make the rest of my tale intelligible . The result of my review of those around me was , that ...
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Some Passages in the Life of an Adventurer in the Punjaub Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence Zobrazení fragmentů - 1970 |
Some Passages in the Life of an Adventurer in the Punjaub Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence Zobrazení fragmentů - 1970 |
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Aliverdi Amritsir appear arms Bellasis blood boats bold British brother called camp Chând Khân Chief Colonel Bellasis command court darbar death Delhi desired Dhyân Dhyan Singh effect enemy English European faithful faqir farangi favour fear feel Firozpur followers gained give ground Gulab Singh guns half hand head heart Highness hills Hindu horse hour hundred Kangra Kasur Kowr lady Lahaur land leader Lena Singh look lord Maharajah Mahtab master matchlock miles morning Multan murder Nand Singh night numbers officers orders Panjab party passed Patan person Peshawar plunder possession present Raja Rajah Ranjit Singh replied respect river royal Rupar rupees Sachet Singh Sahib Sardars scarcely servant Shah shew Sikh Sirhind Sodhi soldier soon Sutluj sword tell territory Thanadar third watch thought tion told took town troops trust usual Vaqil watch wise words
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Strana 87 - ... azure veins Which steal like streams along a field of snow, That lovely outline, which is fair As breathing marble, perish ? Must putrefaction's breath Leave nothing of this heavenly sight But loathsomeness and ruin ? Spare nothing but a gloomy theme, On which the lightest heart might moralize?
Strana 215 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; and happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Strana 241 - Clasp me a little longer on the brink Of fate! while I can feel thy dear caress; And when this heart hath ceased to beat — oh! think, And let it mitigate thy woe's excess, That thou hast been to me all tenderness, And friend to more than human friendship just. Oh! by that retrospect of happiness, And by the hopes of an immortal trust, God shall assuage thy pangs — when I am laid in dust?
Strana 157 - Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Strana 241 - If I had lived to smile but on the birth Of one dear pledge. But shall there then be none, In future times — no gentle little one To clasp thy neck, and look, resembling me ? Yet seems it, even while life's last pulses run, A sweetness in the cup of death to be, Lord of my bosom's love ! to die beholding thee...
Strana 157 - ... good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Strana 87 - Seized on her sinless soul ? Must then that peerless form Which love and admiration cannot view Without a beating heart, those azure veins Which steal like streams along a field of snow, That lovely outline, which is fair As breathing marble, perish...
Strana 274 - Avitabili keeps down by grim fear what nothing else would keep down — the unruly spirits around him, who, if let slip, would riot in carnage ; his severity may therefore be extenuated, as the least of two evils.