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Madan has his reward, three quarters of a column in the Dictionary of National Biography. But to-day Priestley's statue stands in a public square of Birmingham opposite the Council House. Thus do matters get themselves readjusted in this very interesting world. Some of them are stilted and dull, but they are actual 'documents, and the words in them are alive with the passion of that day.
Falconer Madan, however, in his catalogue ascribes the manuscript to the early eighteenth century, a date certainly more in accordance with the character of the handwriting. If, therefore, the conjecture concerning the author's name is correct, he may be plausibly identified with the Sir Thomas Moore whose tragedy Mangora was acted in 1717.
Then news arrived that the Fort was holding out, and Rai Durlabh Ram was ordered to advance. Again there came a false report that the Fort had fallen. Law knew Rai Durlabh was a coward, and his whole reliance was on the second in command, Mir Madan: "a capable officer, and one who would have attacked the enemy with pleasure." This Mir Madan is said to have been a Hindu convert to Muhammadanism.
"Send word at once to Lady Tressady," he said, in Madan's ear, drawing the manager to one side. "Tell her I have gone on a little farther, and may be another hour or two in getting back. If she is down at the bank, beg her from me to go home. Tell her the chances are that we may find the other men as safe as these." Madan acquiesced reluctantly.
'The attackers presently manned the windows of Santo Domingo, and kept up a hot fire against our militiamen. They then determined to send an officer of marines to our Commandant-General, once more demanding the surrender of the town under the threat of burning it. At the order of Lieut.-Col. Don Juan Guinther the parliamentary was conducted to the Citadel by Captain Don Santiago Madan.
The doctor heard him, and nodded sadly. Hark! What was that? A cry a faint cry! "They're some of them alive in the end workings," cried Madan, with a sob of joy. "Come on, my lads! come on!" And the party all but Mr. Dixon leaving the dead, pushed on through the foul atmosphere, over heaps of fallen stone and coal, in quest of the living. "Leave me a man," said Mr.
The white swadeshi garments affected by Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, from the United Provinces who opened the last meeting of the Indian National Congress at Lahore with a presidential address which lasted for two hours and a quarter, and wound up with an apology for its brevity on the ground that he had had no time to prepare it testified, at any rate more loudly, to the sternness of his patriotic convictions than the equally swadeshi homespun, cut at least in European fashion, of another "advanced" politician, Mr.
He published 'a very inflammatory sermon ... inveighing against the Dissenters in general, and myself in particular. Priestley made a defense under the title of Familiar Letters to the Inhabitants of Birmingham. This produced a 'reply' from Madan, and 'other letters' from his opponent.
Deprived of his bravest officer Mir Madan, betrayed by his own relatives, the wretched youth had not waited for the critical moment. Himself carried to his capital the news of his defeat. Orders were given to push on that night to Daudpur, six miles north of Plassey. But some time was occupied by Clive's commissariat in replacing their exhausted bullocks with teams captured in the Nawab's camp.
On the memorial to Bishop Madan, 1813, are the lines: In sacred sleep the pious Bishop lies, Say not in death A good Man never dies. On the tablet to Bishop Cumberland, 1718, are four Latin lines from Dean Duport's epigram upon the Bishop's confutation of Hobbes.
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