India on the Eve of the British Conquest: A Historical SketchW.H. Allen, 1872 - 419 sider |
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India on the Eve of the British Conquest: A Historical Sketch Sidney Owen,Sidney James Owen Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1872 |
India on the Eve of the British Conquest: A Historical Sketch Sidney James Owen Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1872 |
India on the Eve of the British Conquest: A Historical Sketch Sidney James Owen Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1872 |
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Side 385 - Tradition, legend, tune, and song Shall many an age that wail prolong ; Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife and carnage drear Of Flodden's fatal field. Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear And broken was her shield ! xxxv.
Side 378 - The cup is now full to the brim, and cannot hold another drop. If anything can be done, do it or else answer me plainly at once : hereafter there will be no time for writing nor speaking.
Side 148 - ... palace. Halls of audience for public assemblies and privy councils, with all the courts and cabinets attached to them, each hall magnificently adorned, and having within it, a raised seat or throne for the emperor, surrounded by gilded pillars with canopies of velvet, richly fringed, and superbly embroidered; separate tents, as mosques, and oratories; baths and galleries for archery, and gymnastic exercises ; a seraglio as remarkable for luxury and privacy as that of Delhi ; Persian carpets,...
Side 104 - ... age, worn out by disease, and now a prey to anxiety for the fate of his master's house, Dadajee did not long survive. But just before his death, he sent for Sivajee ; when so far from dissuading him in his accustomed manner, he advised him to prosecute his plans of independence ; to protect Bramins, kine, and cultivators ; to preserve the temples of the Hindoos from violation ; and to follow the fortune which lay before him.
Side 384 - Shunkur*, with part of the garrison at Delhi, returned to their own country. Of the fighting men, one fourth only are supposed to have escaped, and of the followers about an equal proportion ; so that nearly two hundred thousand Mahrattas perished in the campaign. Sooruj Mull treated such of the fugitives as reached his territory with the greatest kindness, and the Mahratta nation, to this day, view the conduct of the Jhats on that occasion, with gratitude and regard. During the period when Sewdasheo...
Side 148 - The canvas-walls, which encompassed the royal tents, formed a circumference of 1,200 yards, and contained every description of apartment to be found in the most spacious palace. Halls of audience for public assemblies and privy councils, with all the courts and cabinets attached to them, each hall magnificently...
Side 22 - ... down into the wild country below, and extend their mysterious and treacherous shade for many a mile along the table-land above. Impetuous torrents leap from the mountain sides, rive, in their headlong career sea-ward, the uneven and craggy surface of the coastland ; and the hollow nullas of the dry season are, on the approach of rain, transformed in a few hours into deep, furious, and impassable cataracts. The thunderstorms of these regions are terrific : the deluges of rain, violent, copious,...
Side 367 - He was 76 years of age when he died ; he had for more than forty years of his life been a commander of reputation, and during the latter part of this period was certainly one of the most distinguished 'in the Mahratta confederacy. His remains were interred at a place now named, in honour of him, Mulhargunge, in the district of Alumpoor, and about 40 miles from Gualior.
Side 149 - ... general splendour. The entrance into the royal enclosure was through a spacious portal, flanked by two elegant pavilions, from which extended, on each side, rows of cannon, forming an avenue, at the extremity of which, was an immense tent containing the great state drums, and imperial band ; — a little...
Side 312 - Nothing was unseasonable or unacceptable ; from convoys of grain, down to the clothes, turbands, and earrings, of travellers, or villagers, whether men, women, or children. Cattle and sheep were among the most profitable heads of plunder : muskets and horses were sometimes obtained in booty, sometimes by purchase. The numbers under his command increased with his resources; and before he left Trichinopoly, besides the usual appendages of a chief of rank, in elephants, camels, tents, and magnificent...