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Page 10
In a letter which I wrote to you , I believe in the month of March , I pressed you to
look to the government of this country , and you may easily conceive that I am
glad to find that there is so near a prospect of my wishes on that subject being ...
In a letter which I wrote to you , I believe in the month of March , I pressed you to
look to the government of this country , and you may easily conceive that I am
glad to find that there is so near a prospect of my wishes on that subject being ...
Page 14
In regard to the celebrated night - attack on the Sultaunpettah Tope before
Seringapatam , Mr. Gleig says :* It was at one time , I believe , a favourite pastime
, with writers to make a great deal of that reverse . The Colonel was represented
as ...
In regard to the celebrated night - attack on the Sultaunpettah Tope before
Seringapatam , Mr. Gleig says :* It was at one time , I believe , a favourite pastime
, with writers to make a great deal of that reverse . The Colonel was represented
as ...
Page 17
... and I believe you know also , that you would not have pleased me by placing
him in any situation in which his appointment could be injurious to the public
service . My opinion , or rather knowledge and experience of his discretion ,
judgment ...
... and I believe you know also , that you would not have pleased me by placing
him in any situation in which his appointment could be injurious to the public
service . My opinion , or rather knowledge and experience of his discretion ,
judgment ...
Page 18
I should be ashamed of doing any of the dirty things that I am told are done in
some of the commands in the Carnatic as I believe I proved sufficiently at
Wallajah - Nuggur : but if Government do not consider my situation here , I must
either give ...
I should be ashamed of doing any of the dirty things that I am told are done in
some of the commands in the Carnatic as I believe I proved sufficiently at
Wallajah - Nuggur : but if Government do not consider my situation here , I must
either give ...
Page 25
Rafts resting on inflated skins have been employed in the East time out of mind ,
--indeed there is reason to believe that they were used by the Sikhs in their latest
struggle with the British army , -- and Sir Howard Douglas tells us in his work on ...
Rafts resting on inflated skins have been employed in the East time out of mind ,
--indeed there is reason to believe that they were used by the Sikhs in their latest
struggle with the British army , -- and Sir Howard Douglas tells us in his work on ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Sir John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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