Calcutta Review, Հատոր 7University of Calcutta, 1847 |
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... Hope and the Island of Japan 3. A voyage from England to India in the year 1754 . And an Historical Narrative of the operations of the Squadron and Army of India under the com- mand of Vice Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive , in the ...
... Hope and the Island of Japan 3. A voyage from England to India in the year 1754 . And an Historical Narrative of the operations of the Squadron and Army of India under the com- mand of Vice Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive , in the ...
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... hope of success , have given battle to Mahmoud's forces . The danger was imminent . The royal troops were within six miles of the capital . Dost Mahommed and his followers prepared for flight . With the bridles of their horses in their ...
... hope of success , have given battle to Mahmoud's forces . The danger was imminent . The royal troops were within six miles of the capital . Dost Mahommed and his followers prepared for flight . With the bridles of their horses in their ...
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... hope your Lordship will consider me and my ' country as your own ; " - a hope , which in due course of time , was literally fulfilled . Lord Auckland took the Amir to his word . 6 6 The Governor - General returned a friendly reply to ...
... hope your Lordship will consider me and my ' country as your own ; " - a hope , which in due course of time , was literally fulfilled . Lord Auckland took the Amir to his word . 6 6 The Governor - General returned a friendly reply to ...
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... hope of securing one . " There is much more in a similar strain - much more cancelled from the published correspondence - which we are compelled from such an article as this reluctantly to omit . The system of garbling the official ...
... hope of securing one . " There is much more in a similar strain - much more cancelled from the published correspondence - which we are compelled from such an article as this reluctantly to omit . The system of garbling the official ...
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... hope from the operations of the British Government in the east , the Russian mission made but little progress at Kabul . Alluding to the negociations of our agent , Vickovich wrote some time afterwards , " all this has occasioned Dost ...
... hope from the operations of the British Government in the east , the Russian mission made but little progress at Kabul . Alluding to the negociations of our agent , Vickovich wrote some time afterwards , " all this has occasioned Dost ...
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Էջ xl - Nay, do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Էջ 175 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Էջ 448 - THIS is true liberty, when freeborn men, Having to advise the public, may speak free ; Which he who can, and will, deserves high praise ; Who neither can, nor will, may hold his peace ; What can be juster in a state than this ? FROM HORACE.
Էջ xxxviii - Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid ; They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires, Warm from the soul, and faithful to its fires ; The virgin's wish without her fears impart, Excuse the blush, and pour out all the heart, Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. Thou know'st how guiltless first I met thy flame, When Love approach'd me under Friendship's name; My fancy form'd thee of angelic...
Էջ 51 - You have eaten my salt," he said, " these thirteen years. If, as is too plain, you are resolved to seek a new master, grant me but one favour in requital for that long period of maintenance and kindness — enable me to die with honour. Stand by the brother of Futteh Khan...
Էջ 448 - This is true Liberty, when free-born Men, Having to advise the Public, may speak free, Which he who can, and will, deserv's high praise; Who neither can nor will, may hold his peace, What can be juster in a state then this?
Էջ 503 - Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me; for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him : 14 But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
Էջ 470 - ... of Great Britain called England, and to hear and determine and award judgment and execution of all treasons, murders, felonies, forgeries, &c, committed in the districts and provinces, called Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, by British subjects, or other persons who shall at the time of committing them, have been employed by, or shall have been directly or indirectly in the services of the Company.
Էջ 36 - I stood too much in fear of Vattel to do any such thing; and since he was so friendly to us, said I, give me the letters the agent has brought ; all of which he surrendered sharp ; and I sent an express at once to my Lord A., with a confidential letter to the Governor...
Էջ 263 - ... were friends to the English, made a large grave, and buried them all in it. The chief of Carwar sent a stone to be put on the grave, with an inscription that this is the burial place of John Best with seventeen other Englishmen, who were sacrificed to the fury of a mad priesthood, and an enraged mob.