| Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Herman Merivale - 1872 - 522 pages
...William Kaye, from which the materials of the following preliminary sketch are almost entirely drawn. At the close of the eighteenth and opening of the nineteenth century, Shah Zeman sat on the throne of Afghanistan. He was a prince of the Suddozye, or royal race of his... | |
| Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Herman Merivale - 1872 - 522 pages
...William Kaye, from which the materials of the following preliminary sketch are almost entirely drawn. At the close of the eighteenth and opening of the nineteenth century, Shah Zeman sat on the throne of Afghanistan. He was a prince of the Suddozye, or royal race of his... | |
| Alethea Wiel - 1894 - 534 pages
...the desolate city. (From Yriartis •' Vemse," ap. cit.) CONCLUSION. (1798-1866.) THE story of Venice at the close of the eighteenth and opening of the nineteenth century is so lost sight of in that of Austria as to claim hardly any annals of its own. Austrian victories... | |
| bp. James Whitford Bashford, James Whitford Bashford - 1916 - 638 pages
...of the twenty-one other provinces of China. Again historians speak of uprisings against the Manchus at the close of the eighteenth and opening of the nineteenth century which shook the empire to its base. Boulger says of this struggle: "Minor troubles culminated in the... | |
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