Memoirs of a CadetSaunders, 1839 - 338 Seiten |
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... thenceforward to our destination . We entered the Hooghly with a fair wind . It was the beginning of August , and the rainy season . The low island of Saugor loomed dimly on the starboard bow . We ran along 2 MEMOIRS OF A CADET .
... thenceforward to our destination . We entered the Hooghly with a fair wind . It was the beginning of August , and the rainy season . The low island of Saugor loomed dimly on the starboard bow . We ran along 2 MEMOIRS OF A CADET .
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Albert Fenton. loomed dimly on the starboard bow . We ran along merrily with wind and tide till our arrival at Kedgeree , off which place we anchored . The shore here would be remarkably uninter- esting under any other circumstances than ...
Albert Fenton. loomed dimly on the starboard bow . We ran along merrily with wind and tide till our arrival at Kedgeree , off which place we anchored . The shore here would be remarkably uninter- esting under any other circumstances than ...
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... to overpass shallows ; but for the same reason they are much too liable to be upset by a sudden gust of wind , and many , indeed , are thus lost . Milden and I did not leave Calcutta alone . Another MEMOIRS OF A CADET . 41.
... to overpass shallows ; but for the same reason they are much too liable to be upset by a sudden gust of wind , and many , indeed , are thus lost . Milden and I did not leave Calcutta alone . Another MEMOIRS OF A CADET . 41.
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... wind , which propelled us cheerily , even after the turn of the tide . On the following morning the wind was slack , insomuch that we were obliged to have recourse to the tow - rope . This method of proceeding , called tracking , is the ...
... wind , which propelled us cheerily , even after the turn of the tide . On the following morning the wind was slack , insomuch that we were obliged to have recourse to the tow - rope . This method of proceeding , called tracking , is the ...
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... wind came on violently . This weather betokens the breaking up of the rainy season . In the even- ing it became fair , and we visited a Hindoo temple that was near our halting - place . was little to be seen within the building , except ...
... wind came on violently . This weather betokens the breaking up of the rainy season . In the even- ing it became fair , and we visited a Hindoo temple that was near our halting - place . was little to be seen within the building , except ...
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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...