Memoirs of a CadetSaunders, 1839 - 338 Seiten |
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... nearly covered with a variety of articles which the sircar had procured for my approval , and my new servants busy , selecting and choosing therefrom , each in his own depart- ment . My approval of all their tastes seemed to be presumed ...
... nearly covered with a variety of articles which the sircar had procured for my approval , and my new servants busy , selecting and choosing therefrom , each in his own depart- ment . My approval of all their tastes seemed to be presumed ...
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... nearly seven . The roof is flat , and is a place of constant resort morning and after- noon , when the boat is under way , it being customary to have chairs placed there at those times . When the weather is cool , and the ves- sel ...
... nearly seven . The roof is flat , and is a place of constant resort morning and after- noon , when the boat is under way , it being customary to have chairs placed there at those times . When the weather is cool , and the ves- sel ...
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Albert Fenton. CHAPTER IV . THE time of our sojourn at Berhampore had now nearly expired . A fortunate increase in the army had given lieutenancies to all the en- signs of my standing , and the order had arrived which posted us finally ...
Albert Fenton. CHAPTER IV . THE time of our sojourn at Berhampore had now nearly expired . A fortunate increase in the army had given lieutenancies to all the en- signs of my standing , and the order had arrived which posted us finally ...
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... imagined , therefore , that the burning tropical sun , pouring its unceasing heat for nearly nine months suc- cessively upon the sandy soil of India , would 1 dry up the rivers , and calcine the surface 84 MEMOIRS OF A CADET .
... imagined , therefore , that the burning tropical sun , pouring its unceasing heat for nearly nine months suc- cessively upon the sandy soil of India , would 1 dry up the rivers , and calcine the surface 84 MEMOIRS OF A CADET .
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... nearly to a level with the contiguous country , although it must have contained about nine hundred million solid feet . In the neighbourhood of Colgong , where the depth of the river is in many places upwards of seventy feet , new ...
... nearly to a level with the contiguous country , although it must have contained about nine hundred million solid feet . In the neighbourhood of Colgong , where the depth of the river is in many places upwards of seventy feet , new ...
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afterwards Agra Allahabad amongst amusement appeared arms arrival Askern bank battalion beautiful became Benares Bengal Berhampore boat budgerow building Buxar Calcutta called Calpee cantonment Cawnpore centre command commenced Cossimbazar Delhi delightful Dinapore distance dome durzee duty EDMUND LODGE elephants English Etawah European feet flowers four Ganges gentleman ghaut head height Hindoos hundred India Jumna ladies LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS Lucknow mahout Mahumedan master ment Milden miles military morning mosque Muttra native night Nuwab o'clock O'Farrel occasion officers OTLEY ourselves Paddy palace palkee Pariah dogs party passed Post 8vo proceeded rain rainy season regiment rise river road round rupees Sahib Scarsdale sentries sepoy servants Shah Juhan side sircar soldiers Speering square station stone Taje Taje Muhal Thornel tion travelling trees vessel village voyage wall white marble whole wind yards young
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Seite 124 - From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Seite 144 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Seite 172 - ... of fifty feet, above which the wall is raised about fourteen feet, to hide the shaft of the dome; in the four less sides, formed by cutting off the angle of the square, a double range of arches rises to the top ; but here, instead of raising the wall, whose uniformity would destroy its beauty, a small pavilion, crowned by a dome, is raised at each great angle of the building, and fills up the hollow bosom of the shaft. The outside is beautifully inlaid with white marble ; the plan of the edifice...