The Calcutta Review, Volume 14University of Calcutta, 1850 |
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Page 62
... Elphinstone , Sir Alexander Burnes , or any other distinguished character . Whoever it might be , we soon learn that , determined to prove that it is something more than a bundle of clothes which he has rescued , he " unclasps the jewel ...
... Elphinstone , Sir Alexander Burnes , or any other distinguished character . Whoever it might be , we soon learn that , determined to prove that it is something more than a bundle of clothes which he has rescued , he " unclasps the jewel ...
Page 143
... Elphinstone's Report , cited by Briggs . † Vide Briggs's abstract of the Shastras , above quoted . Tod's Rajasthan , passim . § Sir T. Munro's Life and Letters , passim . Full accounts of these secondary tenures also are given in ...
... Elphinstone's Report , cited by Briggs . † Vide Briggs's abstract of the Shastras , above quoted . Tod's Rajasthan , passim . § Sir T. Munro's Life and Letters , passim . Full accounts of these secondary tenures also are given in ...
Page 271
... Elphinstone - was it Thomas Munro - was it John Malcolm ? Or , going back to a more remote date and a more extended sphere of action , was it Robert Clive , or Warren Hastings , or John Shore ? Or adverting to our own times , was it ...
... Elphinstone - was it Thomas Munro - was it John Malcolm ? Or , going back to a more remote date and a more extended sphere of action , was it Robert Clive , or Warren Hastings , or John Shore ? Or adverting to our own times , was it ...
Page 300
... Elphinstone were not calculated , either by their mental or their physical capa- cities , to be entrusted with the conduct of affairs in Affghanis- tan . Men of a higher order of intellect were essential for such a command ; and , along ...
... Elphinstone were not calculated , either by their mental or their physical capa- cities , to be entrusted with the conduct of affairs in Affghanis- tan . Men of a higher order of intellect were essential for such a command ; and , along ...
Page 348
... Elphinstone , the General , who had relieved Cotton , was a brave gentleman , but inexperienced in command , a tyro in eastern warfare , ignorant of Affghanistan and its people , and so shak- en by severe attacks of gout and illness ...
... Elphinstone , the General , who had relieved Cotton , was a brave gentleman , but inexperienced in command , a tyro in eastern warfare , ignorant of Affghanistan and its people , and so shak- en by severe attacks of gout and illness ...
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