Memoirs of a CadetSaunders, 1839 - 338 Seiten |
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... here to be seen , and innumerable small boats belonging to the country fly about like swarms of insects . As you advance higher , however , there are sufficient signs of propinquity to a large city , in 4 MEMOIRS OF A CADET .
... here to be seen , and innumerable small boats belonging to the country fly about like swarms of insects . As you advance higher , however , there are sufficient signs of propinquity to a large city , in 4 MEMOIRS OF A CADET .
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Albert Fenton. sufficient signs of propinquity to a large city , in the form of European dwelling - houses , and native villages ; and as each successive reach of the river gradually develops itself , these symbols increase in number and ...
Albert Fenton. sufficient signs of propinquity to a large city , in the form of European dwelling - houses , and native villages ; and as each successive reach of the river gradually develops itself , these symbols increase in number and ...
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... sufficient time . My sircar had kept his engagement to furnish me with all minor equipments , which enabled me thenceforth to appear en militaire . The day of the ball at length arrived and C journeyed on as days are wont to do . Four ...
... sufficient time . My sircar had kept his engagement to furnish me with all minor equipments , which enabled me thenceforth to appear en militaire . The day of the ball at length arrived and C journeyed on as days are wont to do . Four ...
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... or by ridicule , which soon shrank abashed before his keener wit . Although these qualifications only became fully developed by time , he possessed sufficiently the elements of them at the period of which I write , 42 MEMOIRS OF A CADET .
... or by ridicule , which soon shrank abashed before his keener wit . Although these qualifications only became fully developed by time , he possessed sufficiently the elements of them at the period of which I write , 42 MEMOIRS OF A CADET .
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... sufficient depth of water for the passage of the boat , they are obliged to wade for hours together be- neath a fiery sun . Theirs is , indeed , a trying life , yet they are cheerful labourers . They rarely , I believe , attain to any ...
... sufficient depth of water for the passage of the boat , they are obliged to wade for hours together be- neath a fiery sun . Theirs is , indeed , a trying life , yet they are cheerful labourers . They rarely , I believe , attain to any ...
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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...