 | George Forster - 1808 - 390 sider
...existence of empire and religion, we may see Some ambitious chief led on by his genius and success, and, absorbing the power of his associates, display, from...ruins of their commonwealth, the standard of monarchy. The page of history is filled with the like effects, springing from the like causes. Under such a form... | |
 | Sir Alexander Burnes - 1834 - 522 sider
...Baba Nanuk, desiring to wash away the corruptions of his faith, founded a sect named Seik, over Seik which his successors were prophesied to maintain a...have amply verified the sagacity of the historian. governmcnt ' * CI state of the fh e dominions of Maharaja Runjeet Sing asof the Pun. sumed a consolidated... | |
 | 1841 - 282 sider
...Forster, writing in 1783, said : "Should any future cause call forth the combined efforts of the Seiks, to maintain the existence of empire and religion,...ruins of their commonwealth the standard of monarchy." This sagacious remark has been amply justified in the subsequent career of Runjeet Singh, who was born... | |
 | 1841 - 536 sider
...maintain the existence of empire nnd religion, we may seo some ambitious chief, led on by his MDÍ1U and success, absorbing the power of his associates,...ruins of their commonwealth the standard of monarchy." This sagacious remark has been amply justified in the subsequent career of Runjeet Singh, who was born... | |
 | Henry Thoby Prinsep - 1846 - 784 sider
...have formed so accurate a prognostic of the destiny of the Sikh nation. " We may see," he observes, " some ambitious chief, led on by his genius and success,...of their commonwealth, the standard of monarchy." CHAPTER XX. REIGN OF KHURUK SINGH. AD 1839 AND 1840. IT was believed by many persons well acquainted... | |
 | John Marriott - 2003 - 264 sider
...existence of empire and religion, we may see some ambitious chief led on by his genius and success, and, absorbing the power of his associates, display, from...of their commonwealth, the standard of monarchy.... Under such a form of government, I have little hesitation in saying that the Sicques would be soon... | |
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any future cause call forth the combined ef" forts of the Sicques to maintain the existence " of empire and religion, we may see some " ambitious chief, led on by his genius and " success, absorbing the power of his associates, " display, from the ruins... 