 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1803 - 624 pages
...but one impulse to their spirit. Should any future cause call forth the combined efforts of the Sieks to maintain the existence of empire and religion,...see some ambitious chief, led on by his genius and ;uccess, and absorbing the power of his associate?, display from the ruins of their commonwealth the... | |
 | Sir Alexander Burnes - Asia, Central - 1834 - 502 pages
...expresses himself in the year 1783 : — " Should " any future cause call forth the combined ef" forts of the Sicques to maintain the existence " of empire...ambitious chief, led on by his genius and " success, absorbing the power of his associates, " display, from the ruins of their commonwealth, " the standard... | |
 | Sir Alexander Burnes - Asia, Central - 1834 - 522 pages
...expresses himself in the year 1783 : — " Should " any future cause call forth the combined ef" forts of the Sicques to maintain the existence " of empire...ambitious chief, led on by his genius and " success, absorbing the power of his associates, " display, from the ruins of their commonwealth, " the standard... | |
 | Sir Alexander Burnes - Asia, Central - 1839 - 384 pages
...predictions of an enterprising traveller (Mr. Forster), who thus expresses himself in the year 1783: — " Should any future " cause call forth the combined...ambitious chief, led on " by his genius and success, absorbing the power " of his associates, display, from the ruins of their " commonwealth, the standard... | |
 | Periodicals - 1841 - 282 pages
...Forster, writing in 1783, said : "Should any future cause call forth the combined efforts of the Seiks, to maintain the existence of empire and religion,...ambitious chief, led on by his genius and success, absorbing the power of his associates, display from the ruins of their commonwealth the standard of... | |
 | Henry Thoby Prinsep - Punjab (India) - 1846 - 432 pages
...Sikh nation. " We may see," he observes, " some ambitious chief, led on by his genius and success, absorbing the power of his associates, display, from...of their commonwealth, the standard of monarchy." CHAPTER XX. REIGN OF KHURUK SINGH. A.11. 1839 AND 1840. IT was believed by many persons well acquainted... | |
 | John Marriott - History - 2003 - 264 pages
...But then in a remarkable passage he proceeds to predict the rise of Sikh power under Ranjit Singh: Should any future cause call forth the combined efforts...of their commonwealth, the standard of monarchy.... Under such a form of government, I have little hesitation in saying that the Sicques would be soon... | |
 | English periodicals - 1843 - 522 pages
...predicted with great sagacity, that " should any future cause call forth the combined efforts of the Seiks to maintain the existence of empire and religion,...ambitious chief, led on by his genius and success, display, from the ruins of their commonwealth, the standard of monarchy." It was soon after this was... | |
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Should any future cause call forth the combined efforts of the Sicques to maintain the existence of empire and religion, we may see some ambitious chief led on by his genius and success, and, absorbing the power of his associates, display, from the ruins... 