Soldier and Traveller: Memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Colonel of Artillery in the Service of Maharaja Ranjit SinghW. Blackwood, 1898 - 359 páginas |
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... hand , like those touches in a sketch which , to artists ' eyes , indicate that it has been taken from nature . internal evidence convinces us that these characters are drawn from the life in Central Asia . Now and again the rapine ...
... hand , like those touches in a sketch which , to artists ' eyes , indicate that it has been taken from nature . internal evidence convinces us that these characters are drawn from the life in Central Asia . Now and again the rapine ...
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... hands of their foes : the wife will beg death from her husband's sword , the sister from her brother's dagger . Apart from all this , several episodes are briefly recounted which , as tragic plots , would be worthy of Shakespearean ...
... hands of their foes : the wife will beg death from her husband's sword , the sister from her brother's dagger . Apart from all this , several episodes are briefly recounted which , as tragic plots , would be worthy of Shakespearean ...
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... hands no successor could be found to take it up . Thus the reader will doubtlessly note the various meetings which Gardner had with Ranjit Singh , the cautious INTRODUCTION . xxvii inquiries about military affairs , the instinctive xxvi ...
... hands no successor could be found to take it up . Thus the reader will doubtlessly note the various meetings which Gardner had with Ranjit Singh , the cautious INTRODUCTION . xxvii inquiries about military affairs , the instinctive xxvi ...
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... hand , he attributes many wise and able qualities to his master , to whom this particular praise - well deserved , no doubt was most accep- table . Strangely enough , it appears that this character was published at the time , and gave no.
... hand , he attributes many wise and able qualities to his master , to whom this particular praise - well deserved , no doubt was most accep- table . Strangely enough , it appears that this character was published at the time , and gave no.
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... hand by an eyewitness . Of a similar character is the murder of Dhyan Singh , shot in the back , and the sati - burning of his young widow - she declaring that her funereal fire shall not be lighted till the heads of her husband's ...
... hand by an eyewitness . Of a similar character is the murder of Dhyan Singh , shot in the back , and the sati - burning of his young widow - she declaring that her funereal fire shall not be lighted till the heads of her husband's ...
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