India," —"Our victorious army bears the gates of the temple of Somnauth in triumph from Afghanistan, and the despoiled tomb of Sultan Mahmoud looks upon the ruins of Ghuznee. The insult of eight hundred years is at last avenged. The gates of the temple... Calcutta Review - Page 5291846Full view - About this book
| James Franck Bright - Great Britain - 1889 - 634 pages
...song of triumph." "Brothers and friends," he said, "the insult of eight hundred years is at length avenged, the gates of the temple of Somnauth, so long...superiority in arms over the nations beyond the Indus." He did not see that in speaking of his friends and brothers he was addressing Mahomedans and Hindoos... | |
| Robert Wilson - Great Britain - 1891 - 812 pages
...and the despoiled tomb of Sultan Mahmoud looks upon the ruins of Ghizui. The insult of eight hundred years is at last avenged. The gates of the Temple...humiliation, are become the proudest record of your national glory,—the proof of your superiority in arms over the nations beyond the Indus. To you, princes and... | |
| Edwin Hodder - Christian Zionism - 1893 - 854 pages
...triumph from Afghanistan, and the despoiled tomb of SuKaii Aïaionoud looks upon the ruins of Ghuzneo. The insult of 800 years is at last avenged. The gates...superiority in arms over the nations beyond the Indus." liominem enitat. He ia stately and oracular as a tutelary Apollo, a false and ooxoombical deity. But... | |
| Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1894 - 420 pages
...and the despoiled tomb of Sultan Mahmoud looks upon the ruins of Ghuznee. The insult of eight hundred years is at last avenged. The gates of the Temple...superiority in arms over the nations beyond the Indus." No words of pompous man could possibly have put together greater al isurdit ies. The brothers and friends... | |
| Henry Morris - Governors - 1896 - 186 pages
...insult of eight hundred years," he declared, " is at last avenged. The gates of the temple of Somnath, so long the memorial of your humiliation, are become the proudest record of your national glory." This, ridiculous proclamation was received by the Hindus with indifference and by the English with... | |
| Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1898 - 568 pages
...and the despoiled tomb of Sultan Mahmoud looks upon the ruins of Ghuznee. The insult of eight hundred years is at last avenged. The gates of the Temple...superiority in arms over the nations beyond the Indus." No words of pompous man could possibly have put together greater absurdities. The brothers and friends... | |
| Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Europe - 1907 - 734 pages
...1 See ante, p. 179. " "The insult of 800 years," he wrote in this rather theatrical proclamation, " is at last avenged. The gates of the temple of Somnauth,...become the proudest record of your national glory. . . . .You will yourselves, with all honour, transmit the gates of sandal-wood, through your respective... | |
| Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Europe - 1907 - 736 pages
...in this rather theatrical proclamation, " is at last avenged. The gates of the temple of Soranauth, so long the memorial of your humiliation, are become the proudest record of your national glory. . . . You will yourselves, with all honour, transmit the gates of sandal-wood, through your respective... | |
| Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Europe - 1907 - 552 pages
...rather theatrical proclamation, " is a l;lst avenged. The j?ates of the temple of Somnauth, so lona; the memorial of your humiliation, are become the proudest record of your national glory. . . . You will yourselves, with all honour, transmit the gates of saudal-wood, through your respective... | |
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