The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Band 10Viking Press, 1930 - 299 Seiten Autobiography of a British cavalry officer in pre-war India and on the Western front, who later became a member of the Royal flying corps in Mesopotamia. The closing chapters concern his subsequent travels in India and give his interpretation of the Hindu philosophy through the medium of his own personal experience. |
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... kind of thing is all in the day's work ; he has suffered a score of woundings in our service . The veins knot at his temples , but he does not wince when I feel his leg for a fracture . Nothing is broken this time , and the stitches can ...
... kind of thing is all in the day's work ; he has suffered a score of woundings in our service . The veins knot at his temples , but he does not wince when I feel his leg for a fracture . Nothing is broken this time , and the stitches can ...
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... the baby always in the air . Is the action symbolic of something ? The baby finds the rotary motion agreeable and sucks its thumbs and smiles , but what kind of Yoga is this ? " What kind of Yoga is this ? " I 129 Benares.
... the baby always in the air . Is the action symbolic of something ? The baby finds the rotary motion agreeable and sucks its thumbs and smiles , but what kind of Yoga is this ? " What kind of Yoga is this ? " I 129 Benares.
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... kind . An ox is big and bellows when slaughtered : a mos- quito merely stops its buzzing . The mosquito wanted to feed on us , we on the ox . Who shall say that God intended the one and not the other , or that we may choose which of His ...
... kind . An ox is big and bellows when slaughtered : a mos- quito merely stops its buzzing . The mosquito wanted to feed on us , we on the ox . Who shall say that God intended the one and not the other , or that we may choose which of His ...
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New Years Eve 1905 | 3 |
Durbar and a Dog Fight | 14 |
Masheen of the Mirrored Thumbs | 31 |
Urheberrecht | |
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