The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 152A. Constable, 1880 |
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... Herat , and Nishapore , were their immediate objects , and all these cities either surrendered or fell into their power after protracted sieges . The Mongols repeated these triumphs in the interior of Persia , as well as against Mahomed ...
... Herat , and Nishapore , were their immediate objects , and all these cities either surrendered or fell into their power after protracted sieges . The Mongols repeated these triumphs in the interior of Persia , as well as against Mahomed ...
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... Herat , began making preparations to assert by force of arms his own claim to the Amirship . During several months he occupied himself in making arrangements for an advance on Canda- har , and on June 9 he formed his camp outside the ...
... Herat , began making preparations to assert by force of arms his own claim to the Amirship . During several months he occupied himself in making arrangements for an advance on Canda- har , and on June 9 he formed his camp outside the ...
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... Herat army to advance with confidence . On the 17th 200 of Ayoob's horsemen reached Girishk , and on the 19th some 1,500 or 2,000 of them arrived , the main body re- maining from sixteen to twenty miles in the rear . On the 19th General ...
... Herat army to advance with confidence . On the 17th 200 of Ayoob's horsemen reached Girishk , and on the 19th some 1,500 or 2,000 of them arrived , the main body re- maining from sixteen to twenty miles in the rear . On the 19th General ...
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... Herat army did not exceed 12,000 or 13,000 men . Ayoob drew up his army in the following order : -Seven infantry regiments in first line , supported by three in second line , constituted the centre . Two thousand cavalry were on the ...
... Herat army did not exceed 12,000 or 13,000 men . Ayoob drew up his army in the following order : -Seven infantry regiments in first line , supported by three in second line , constituted the centre . Two thousand cavalry were on the ...
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... Herat , we could easily anticipate a Russian com- mander at Candahar . We should thus enjoy all the advantages afforded by the strategic position of this point without the expense of permanently occupying it . Besides , our object is to ...
... Herat , we could easily anticipate a Russian com- mander at Candahar . We should thus enjoy all the advantages afforded by the strategic position of this point without the expense of permanently occupying it . Besides , our object is to ...
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Seite 116 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Seite 118 - The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them; and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Seite 18 - Change, and there my Lord and most of the company to a club supper ; Sir P. Neale. Sir B. Murray, Dr. Clerke, Dr. Whistler, Dr. Goddard, and others of the most eminent worth. Above all Mr. Boyle was at the meeting, and above him, Mr. Hooke. who is the most, and promises the least, of any man in the world that ever I saw.
Seite 242 - FAREWELL [MAY 1669] every time that I take a pen in my hand; and therefore whatever comes of it I must forbear: and therefore resolve from this time forward to have it kept by my people in long-hand, and must...
Seite 238 - Sacrament, which troubled me, but I took no notice of it, but she went on from one thing to another till at last it appeared plainly her trouble was at what she saw, but yet I did not know how much she saw, and therefore said nothing to her.
Seite 562 - February, 1769, was ordered to be expunged from the journals as " subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this kingdom.
Seite 114 - I am sure, if I had a severe illness, I should give up at once, I should not struggle for life. I have no tenacity of life.
Seite 116 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Seite 248 - And so home to our own church, it being the common Fast-day, and it was just before sermon ; but, Lord ! how all the people in the church stared upon me to see me whisper to Sir John Minnes and my Lady Pen. Anon I saw people stirring and whispering below, and by and by comes up the sexton from my Lady Ford to tell me the news, which I had brought, being now sent into the church by Sir W. Batten in writing, and passed from pew to pew.
Seite 31 - That all bodies whatsoever that are put into a direct and simple motion, will so continue to move forward in a straight line, till they are by some other effectual powers deflected and bent into a Motion, describing a Circle, Ellipsis, or some other more compounded Curve Line.