Calcutta Review, Volume 29University of Calcutta., 1857 |
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... MALCOLM . Life and Correspondence of Major - General Sir John Malcolm , G. C. B. , late Envoy to Persia , and Gover- nor of Bombay . From unpublished letters and journals . By John William Kaye , & c . & c . , 2 vols . London , 1856 ...
... MALCOLM . Life and Correspondence of Major - General Sir John Malcolm , G. C. B. , late Envoy to Persia , and Gover- nor of Bombay . From unpublished letters and journals . By John William Kaye , & c . & c . , 2 vols . London , 1856 ...
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1 CONTENTS . ART . III . - SIR JOHN MALCOLM . Life and Correspondence of Major General Sir John Malcolm , G. C. B. , late Envoy to Persia , and Gover- nor of Bombay . From unpublished letters and jour- nals . By John William Kaye , & c ...
1 CONTENTS . ART . III . - SIR JOHN MALCOLM . Life and Correspondence of Major General Sir John Malcolm , G. C. B. , late Envoy to Persia , and Gover- nor of Bombay . From unpublished letters and jour- nals . By John William Kaye , & c ...
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... Malcolm and Sir Henry Lawrence . The one a Scotchman , and the other an Irishman , each exhibited a combination , as rare as it is graceful , of those qualities that are ... MALCOLM . ing himself also in his proper SIR JOHN MALCOLM . 157.
... Malcolm and Sir Henry Lawrence . The one a Scotchman , and the other an Irishman , each exhibited a combination , as rare as it is graceful , of those qualities that are ... MALCOLM . ing himself also in his proper SIR JOHN MALCOLM . 157.
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... Malcolm died in a fresh old age , attended by the wife of his youth , and the children who regarded him not only as a father , but also as a companion and a friend . Lawrence , after several years of widowhood , and with no child near ...
... Malcolm died in a fresh old age , attended by the wife of his youth , and the children who regarded him not only as a father , but also as a companion and a friend . Lawrence , after several years of widowhood , and with no child near ...
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... Malcolm was a Scotchman , but it was not " Caledonia stern and wild " that gave him birth , but the rich vale of the Esk , where the scenery resembles the richest Eng- lish landscape . His father had been educated for the ministry of ...
... Malcolm was a Scotchman , but it was not " Caledonia stern and wild " that gave him birth , but the rich vale of the Esk , where the scenery resembles the richest Eng- lish landscape . His father had been educated for the ministry of ...
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