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... period in history , have well - nigh forgotten , and the nationalities fused into passed since then , and all these great names are the general confederation of the Presidencies forming the Anglo - Indian empire . The 29th bat- talion ...
... period in history , have well - nigh forgotten , and the nationalities fused into passed since then , and all these great names are the general confederation of the Presidencies forming the Anglo - Indian empire . The 29th bat- talion ...
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... period of peace passed in the family of Sir Alured Clarke . The Marquis Wellesley landed at Madras on his way to Cal- cutta early in 1798 , and he met Malcolm , now a Captain , who submitted to him papers he had drawn up on the ...
... period of peace passed in the family of Sir Alured Clarke . The Marquis Wellesley landed at Madras on his way to Cal- cutta early in 1798 , and he met Malcolm , now a Captain , who submitted to him papers he had drawn up on the ...
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... period gained for him more solid advantages than any political favouritism could confer . The latter only afforded to him that , which many men want , an open road to fame and power . One circum- stance shows the terrible activity of ...
... period gained for him more solid advantages than any political favouritism could confer . The latter only afforded to him that , which many men want , an open road to fame and power . One circum- stance shows the terrible activity of ...
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... period in the inner life . G. Don't be a fool . I see a twinkle in your eye , while you're talking . S .: Yes ; I don't like special vocabularies . But my meaning is earnest enough . Released from im- mediate occupation , shut up from ...
... period in the inner life . G. Don't be a fool . I see a twinkle in your eye , while you're talking . S .: Yes ; I don't like special vocabularies . But my meaning is earnest enough . Released from im- mediate occupation , shut up from ...
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... period ex- oxen , for a similar experiment , and with equal ceptions to the general rule . The time was not success . Both these eminent men gained rapid arrived for agriculture to assume the position it and well - merited fortunes ...
... period ex- oxen , for a similar experiment , and with equal ceptions to the general rule . The time was not success . Both these eminent men gained rapid arrived for agriculture to assume the position it and well - merited fortunes ...
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Page 99 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God ; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 141 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Page 335 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 17 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps...
Page 99 - And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 459 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "
Page 273 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God!
Page 207 - The Karens are a meek, peaceful race, simple and credulous, with many of the softer virtues, and few flagrant vices. Though greatly addicted to drunkenness, extremely filthy and indolent in their habits, their morals, in other respects, are superior to many more civilized races.
Page 427 - I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours...
Page 20 - It is the same ! — for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free ; Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow ; Nought may endure but Mutability.