Memoirs of a CadetSaunders, 1839 - 338 Seiten |
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... person should invariably be incorporated with , or ap- pended to , a certificate of character . The mere name is no protection against fraud - a native can change that as easily as I can my coat . One certificate was presented to me of ...
... person should invariably be incorporated with , or ap- pended to , a certificate of character . The mere name is no protection against fraud - a native can change that as easily as I can my coat . One certificate was presented to me of ...
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... person who strikes a servant , on complaint being duly made and proved . After completing my establishment of domes- tics , I ordered the palkee , for the purpose of calling at the house of agency , on which I had a letter of credit ...
... person who strikes a servant , on complaint being duly made and proved . After completing my establishment of domes- tics , I ordered the palkee , for the purpose of calling at the house of agency , on which I had a letter of credit ...
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... person . Our own countrywomen were also arrayed in very rich attire ; but their principal charms lay not in their apparel . The whole entertainment was magnificent and well befitting the high station of the noble host , viz . , that of ...
... person . Our own countrywomen were also arrayed in very rich attire ; but their principal charms lay not in their apparel . The whole entertainment was magnificent and well befitting the high station of the noble host , viz . , that of ...
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... themselves of our means and appliances , which they did . The Khidmutgar was seen no more . That afternoon , " a peasant's is the tale , " a person answering to his description had been seen to hail a 48 MEMOIRS OF A CADET .
... themselves of our means and appliances , which they did . The Khidmutgar was seen no more . That afternoon , " a peasant's is the tale , " a person answering to his description had been seen to hail a 48 MEMOIRS OF A CADET .
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... persons are attended by their friends with a tenderness that might only be expected , perhaps , from the hands of near and dear relatives . It arises from a sense of the greatly reduced value of life . A sort of " Ah , well ! it may be ...
... persons are attended by their friends with a tenderness that might only be expected , perhaps , from the hands of near and dear relatives . It arises from a sense of the greatly reduced value of life . A sort of " Ah , well ! it may be ...
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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...