Recollections of the Deccan, with misc. sketches and letters, by an officer of cavalry [signing himself Junius].1838 |
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... , the dawn was breaking ; the flash of our arms told the enemy of our approach , the gong of the fort beat loud and long , and the On- walls were soon manned with armed men . wards I Attack on the Ghurry of Oomraiz, Numbers.
... , the dawn was breaking ; the flash of our arms told the enemy of our approach , the gong of the fort beat loud and long , and the On- walls were soon manned with armed men . wards I Attack on the Ghurry of Oomraiz, Numbers.
Pagina 2
... arms since eleven P. M .; had marched all night ; had been exposed for three hours to a hot fire , a burning sun , and were without food and We had suffered severely . One officer , one havildar , and seven men killed : one officer ...
... arms since eleven P. M .; had marched all night ; had been exposed for three hours to a hot fire , a burning sun , and were without food and We had suffered severely . One officer , one havildar , and seven men killed : one officer ...
Pagina 3
... arms . I came on picket at three in the morning , and heard the gong in the ghurry regularly strike the hour , and could see several men standing and feeding the watch fire , which burnt brightly on the northern tower . However one of ...
... arms . I came on picket at three in the morning , and heard the gong in the ghurry regularly strike the hour , and could see several men standing and feeding the watch fire , which burnt brightly on the northern tower . However one of ...
Pagina 4
... arms of the subidar of his company , and died without a groan . His name was Philipson , a Lieutenant in the 44th Madras Native Infantry . He was a kind , cheerful , high - spirited young man , about two and twenty , and universally ...
... arms of the subidar of his company , and died without a groan . His name was Philipson , a Lieutenant in the 44th Madras Native Infantry . He was a kind , cheerful , high - spirited young man , about two and twenty , and universally ...
Pagina 10
... arm , one foot resting on a cask and a cigar in his mouth , puffing away and not even rising to salute me although in uni- form , no nor even saluting one of his own officers who happened to pass . I subsequently visited an eight and ...
... arm , one foot resting on a cask and a cigar in his mouth , puffing away and not even rising to salute me although in uni- form , no nor even saluting one of his own officers who happened to pass . I subsequently visited an eight and ...
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adjoining amid appear army artillery batta Bazaars beautiful Belgaum believe Bengal Board Bombay British building cantonment Captain cavalry celebrated centre character church CLEOPHAS Colonel command Commissariat corps court Deccan Dharwar Elphinstone European feeling feet fell fortress garrison gate ghauts ghurry glacis Government Governor grain ground half handsome Havildar head hill Hindoo honour horse hour India Indian army individual infantry Jemadar Kamptee Kolaupoor labour land latter Madras Mahrattah matchlocks ment miles distant Military monsoon Mysore native never o'er observed officer palace Pangi party passed Peishwah persons pettah plain Poonah present prince prisoners proceedings province racter rajah regiment residence river rock rupees Salsette scene SCRUTATOR Sepoy Sholapore singular soldier Sonnites spirit spot Staff stands station stream tamarind Thuggee tion tomb trees troops village walls whole wounded wretched yards
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Pagina 100 - Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries called in some physical aid to their moral consolations, — wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Pagina 24 - The two maxims, of any great man at court are* always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
Pagina 103 - OF all things, an indiscreet tampering with the trade of provisions is the most dangerous, and it is always worst in the time when men are most disposed to it: that is in the time of scarcity.
Pagina 64 - There were sooty artificers, evidently fresh from the forge or the workshop ; and one individual, I remember — either a miller or a baker — who, wherever he passed, left marks of contact on the garments of the company. The most prominent group, however, in the assemblage, was a party of Irish labourers, employed on some neighbouring canal, who had evidently been apt scholars PRESIDENT'S LEVEE.
Pagina 66 - ... be divided from performance, should come to Washington. He will there read a new page in the volume of human nature ; he will observe how compatible is the extreme of physical liberty, with bondage of the understanding. He will hear the words of freedom, and he will see the practice of slavery. Men who sell their fellowcreatures will discourse to him of indefeasible rights ; the legislators, who truckle to a mob, will stun him with professions of independence; he will be taught the affinity between...
Pagina 105 - ... settles, and alone can settle, that price. Market is the meeting and conference of the consumer and producer, when they mutually discover each other's wants. Nobody, I believe, has observed with any reflection what market is, without being astonished at the truth, the correctness, the celerity, the general equity, with which the balance of wants is settled. They who wish the destruction of that balance, and would fain by arbitrary regulation decree, that defective production should not be compensated...
Pagina 69 - Why, then the world, and all that's in't, is nothing; The covering sky is nothing; Bohemia nothing; My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings, If this be nothing.
Pagina 53 - During those months, whoever was in fear of his enemy lived in full security ; so that if a man met the murderer of his father or his brother, he durst not offer him any...
Pagina 75 - Heaven) nearly as much right to sentence a child to education as a criminal teethe gallows. Nevertheless, as a curious example of the difference in national taste, it may be observed, that though in England judges and juries can anywhere be found to condemn the body, they would everywhere be observed to shrink at the very idea of chastening the mind ; they see no moral or religious objection to imprison the former, but they all agree that it would be a political offence to liberate the latter. Although...
Pagina 64 - ... seen. Their morals and their manners were alike detestable. A cold and callous selfishness, a disregard of all the decencies of society, were so apparent in feature, word, and action, that I found it impossible not to wish that their catalogue of sins had been enlarged by one more — hypocrisy. Of hypocrisy, however, they were not guilty. The conversation in the cabin was interlarded with the vilest blasphemy, not uttered in a state of mental excitement, but with a coolness and deliberation...