The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1922 |
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... officer in His Majesty's Army , and I was a senior official in the Indian Civil Service . The sceptic who was so triumphantly convinced , too , was the Departmental Head of one of the Civil Departments of Government ; and the other ...
... officer in His Majesty's Army , and I was a senior official in the Indian Civil Service . The sceptic who was so triumphantly convinced , too , was the Departmental Head of one of the Civil Departments of Government ; and the other ...
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... officer , dark of hair , dark of moustache . Time and again had he scanned those fea- Feature by feature he had committed them to memory . He would know his man again amongst a thousand . The squall had passed and was wailing into ...
... officer , dark of hair , dark of moustache . Time and again had he scanned those fea- Feature by feature he had committed them to memory . He would know his man again amongst a thousand . The squall had passed and was wailing into ...
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... officers in the regiment , and I saw all , good , bad , and indifferent , getting their promotion as a matter of course . No officer was passed over for inefficiency , and the only promotion for which merit was considered was that of ...
... officers in the regiment , and I saw all , good , bad , and indifferent , getting their promotion as a matter of course . No officer was passed over for inefficiency , and the only promotion for which merit was considered was that of ...
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... officers whom he nominated , and these on their retirement sold them to their successors . Moreover , officers who brought in a certain number of recruits were granted free commissions , which were saleable on retirement . Lieutenant ...
... officers whom he nominated , and these on their retirement sold them to their successors . Moreover , officers who brought in a certain number of recruits were granted free commissions , which were saleable on retirement . Lieutenant ...
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... officer convicted of so doing by a general court martial was to be cashiered , and the commission so forfeited was to be ... officers were drawn that so large a proportion of them were able to meet these demands . In 1776 the regulation ...
... officer convicted of so doing by a general court martial was to be cashiered , and the commission so forfeited was to be ... officers were drawn that so large a proportion of them were able to meet these demands . In 1776 the regulation ...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Томи 9 – 10;Том 83;Том 1901 William Makepeace Thackeray Повний перегляд - 1901 |
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Сторінка 431 - Whoever knows that language, has ready access to all the vast intellectual wealth, which all the wisest nations of the earth have created and hoarded in the course of ninety generations.
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