The Bokhara VictimsChapman and Hall, 1845 - 307 pàgines |
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Pàgina 1
... Letter from Colonel Stoddart — Remarks on the Letter - Conduct of the British Government - Com- ments — Indecent Haste in striking Stoddart's Name out of the Army List - Ignorance of Geography — Bokhara not in Persia - Army List ...
... Letter from Colonel Stoddart — Remarks on the Letter - Conduct of the British Government - Com- ments — Indecent Haste in striking Stoddart's Name out of the Army List - Ignorance of Geography — Bokhara not in Persia - Army List ...
Pàgina 9
... letter of which he was the bearer , and asked if he had any verbal com- munication to make . The Colonel replied that he had ; and , that when requested he would com- municate it . He returned home perfectly satisfied with his reception ...
... letter of which he was the bearer , and asked if he had any verbal com- munication to make . The Colonel replied that he had ; and , that when requested he would com- municate it . He returned home perfectly satisfied with his reception ...
Pàgina 18
... letters were received from him , in which he entreats his friends never to believe any rumours of his death . The following remarkable letter was written by Colonel Stoddart at this time , and reached London on the 3d November , 1841 ...
... letters were received from him , in which he entreats his friends never to believe any rumours of his death . The following remarkable letter was written by Colonel Stoddart at this time , and reached London on the 3d November , 1841 ...
Pàgina 19
... letter from me , as I am not free to relate all my work at Bokhara , suffice it that the obstacles which opposed me at the onset have melted like snow in the midsummer - sun , slowly and surely ; and I am now only waiting a letter from ...
... letter from me , as I am not free to relate all my work at Bokhara , suffice it that the obstacles which opposed me at the onset have melted like snow in the midsummer - sun , slowly and surely ; and I am now only waiting a letter from ...
Pàgina 20
John Grover. 20 STODDART'S Letter . somewhat palled their sensibilities ; and when the sword at Cabul , and the scabbard ... letter I sent through the Foreign Office , and never received any answer . COMMENTS . 21 What must have been the ...
John Grover. 20 STODDART'S Letter . somewhat palled their sensibilities ; and when the sword at Cabul , and the scabbard ... letter I sent through the Foreign Office , and never received any answer . COMMENTS . 21 What must have been the ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
Abd-ool-Samet Addington affair ambassador Ameer Ameer of Bokhara arrival British government British officers Cabul Captain Conolly Captain Dillon Captain Grover Captain Unattached Colonel Shiel Colonel Stod Colonel Stoddart Committee communicated Conolly's despatch diplomatic Earl of Aberdeen Emperor endeavour England English envoy execution expedition fate Fitzroy Somerset Foreign Office French gentleman guarantee Herat honour humble Servant immediately imprisoned India innocent traveller interview JOHN GROVER Joseph Wolff journey Khiva King of Bokhara Kokan l'émir la Pérouse Lieutenant Raper Lieutenant Wyburd Lord Aberdeen Lordship Mahomed Majesty Majesty's government ment minister mission narrative nation Navy Club never obtain Peel Peroffsky Pérouse Persian person Petersburg prisoners proceeding to Bokhara published put to death reader received reply request REVUE DE PARIS Russian Rustom Beg Saleh Mohammed Secretary sent shew statement Stoddart and Captain Stoddart and Conolly Tehran tion told Ummeer
Passatges populars
Pàgina 168 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on, how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? He that died o
Pàgina 169 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon/ and so ends my catechism.
Pàgina 169 - ... tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour ? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? He that died o
Pàgina 207 - To run from those th' hadst overcome Thus cowardly ? Quoth Echo, Mum, But what a vengeance makes thee fly From me too, as thine enemy ? Or if thou hast no thought of me, Nor what I have endur'd for thee, Yet shame and honour might prevail To keep thee thus from turning tail : For who would grudge to spend his blood in His Honour's cause ? Quoth she, A puddin.
Pàgina 251 - SIR, I am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the...
Pàgina 128 - I set out for Bokhara to ransom the lives of two officers, Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly ; but both of them were murdered many months previous to my departure, and I do not know whether this blood of mine will not be spilt. I do not supplicate for my own safety ; but, Monarchs, two hundred thousand Persian slaves, many of them people of high talent, sigh in the kingdom of Bokhara. Endeavour to effect their liberation, and I shall rejoice in the grave that my blood has been thus the cause of...
Pàgina 193 - ... in the name of humanity and of the arts and sciences, the different sovereigns of the nations in which they reside, to enjoin all navigators and agents of every description under their command, wherever they may be, but particularly in the southern parts of the Pacific Ocean, to make all possible search after the two French frigates, ' La Boussole ' and ' L'Astrolabe,' commanded by M. de la Perouse...
Pàgina 109 - Shenandoah through her Majesty's representatives and consuls at the Sandwich Islands, Nagasaki, and Shanghai ; and I am to state to you in reply, that his lordship has no objection to sending this letter to the places mentioned, and also to her Majesty's colonial and naval authorities, it being always distinctly understood that the Shenandoah will be dealt with in the courts, if claimed, according to law.