The Living Age, Volume 213E. Littell & Company, 1897 |
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... took an active part in many of them . He was at Peshawur when the telegram of the 11th May , 1857 , arrived , which proved to be a mes- sage from Delhi " to all stations in the Punjab " that a very serious outbreak had occurred at ...
... took an active part in many of them . He was at Peshawur when the telegram of the 11th May , 1857 , arrived , which proved to be a mes- sage from Delhi " to all stations in the Punjab " that a very serious outbreak had occurred at ...
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... took a prominent part in both of them . The political interest of the former lies in the meeting a few days later between Lord Canning and the one hundred and sixty taluqdars of Oudh , whose estate and property he had confiscated by his ...
... took a prominent part in both of them . The political interest of the former lies in the meeting a few days later between Lord Canning and the one hundred and sixty taluqdars of Oudh , whose estate and property he had confiscated by his ...
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... took a turn to which he was not accustomed . " While I was on my way out to take up my command peace was made with the Boers in the most marvellously rapid and unexpected manner . " A peace without honor or the semblance of honor ! Lord ...
... took a turn to which he was not accustomed . " While I was on my way out to take up my command peace was made with the Boers in the most marvellously rapid and unexpected manner . " A peace without honor or the semblance of honor ! Lord ...
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... took their intel- lectual stand , and laid down their lives rather than take a step further . But Wolsey is a type of human for- tunes , of the inherent limitations of man's endeavors , of the sudden versal of high hopes , of the ...
... took their intel- lectual stand , and laid down their lives rather than take a step further . But Wolsey is a type of human for- tunes , of the inherent limitations of man's endeavors , of the sudden versal of high hopes , of the ...
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... took the paper and read its contents with delight . Not once but several times he conned the song over , until Su muttered to himself , " He looks as though he was learning it by heart . " While they were thus engaged a ser- vant ...
... took the paper and read its contents with delight . Not once but several times he conned the song over , until Su muttered to himself , " He looks as though he was learning it by heart . " While they were thus engaged a ser- vant ...
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Page 227 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Page 93 - Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.