The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B.J. Murray, 1857 |
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269 페이지 - has been over-petted and overpaid of late, and has been led on, by the government itself, into the entertainment of an expectation, and the manifestation of a feeling, which he never held in former times...
412 페이지 - In regard to staying longer, the question is exactly whether the Court of Directors or the King's Ministers have any claim upon me, strong enough to induce me to do any thing so disagreeable to my feelings (leaving health out of the question) as to remain for a great length of time in this country. ' I have served the Company in important situations for many years, and have never received...
188 페이지 - Were I emperor of India for twelve years, she should be traversed by railroads, and have her rivers bridged; her seat of government at Delhi, or Meerut, or Simla, or Allahabad. No Indian prince should exist. The Nizam should be no more heard of, Nepal would be ours...
397 페이지 - August the 29th, at 5 o'clock, he expired like a soldier, on a naked camp-bedstead, the windows of the room open, and the fresh air of heaven blowing on his manly face.
412 페이지 - Residents, and many civil authorities ; and there is not an instance on record, or in any private correspondence, of disapprobation of any one of my acts, or a single complaint, or even a symptom of ill temper, from any one of the political or civil authorities...
185 페이지 - The feeling that when battle comes on like a storm, thousands of brave men are rushing to meet it, confident in your skill to direct them, is indescribable ; it is greater than the feeling of gladness after victory — far greater indeed — for the danger being then over,\ and brave men lying scattered about, dead or dying, the spirit is sad. Oh ! there is no pleasure after a battle beyond rejoicing that you have escaped being slain.
191 페이지 - The picquets then appeared, being driven back, but firing so hard that our line loudly cheered them from the crest above...
408 페이지 - ... the dignity of human nature gives a right, without imputation of vanity, to avow good services. To me also as an inspired truth has come that passionate burst of eloquence with which Charles Fox repelled foul enmity. " There is a " spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity " in the breast of man proportioned to the size of the " wrongs he is destined to endure" That spirit prompts me to vindicate a claim to better usage.
160 페이지 - ... and that prince had many a bekhelool or ha'rd nut to crack. One army was waylaid and utterly destroyed, because the Queen-Mother chose to give the command of it to an officer out of whom. age and illness had squeezed all the valour : and another warrior, though as brave as Roostum, yet was a hundred years old, and had been much better at home handling a pipe than.
255 페이지 - I am directed to acquaint you, for the information of his Excellency the Commander-inchief, that the...