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2 th;e eastern or western world.; It would bo im%ir
3 to compare him with those military leaders and
4 conquerors of the latter* who enjoying all the
5 advantages of education and hereditary wealth.
6 ha,ve pushed their conquests over the greater
7 £« S$§j| portion of the globe, Rnnjeet’s talents are entirely
8 natural, and unassisted by education* they have
9 enabled him to triumph oyer every power vyho
10 opposed his victorious career to the throne of
11 Lahore. If we compare his conquests with thpjse
12 of Nadir Shah, the Persian conqueror of Mindostan,
13 we may discover more brilliant displays of daring
14 adventure art the - latter, but the tragical end of
15 Nadir Shah’s reign and life* are circumstances well
16 known in the page of history, as having sprung
17 from want of caution and discernment, qualities so
18 characteristic of the present ruler of the Punjab.
19 Tire manner in which Runjeet retains his conquests
20 entire, displays the energy of the ixmn in eyeR a
21 stronger light than all his victories in the field of
22 battle, and without knowing the habits and endless
23 resources of this extraordinary individual, it appears
24 difficult to conceive how he manages to preserve
25 such order in his wide-extended dominions; but
26 we cease to wonder, as my friend Fukeer Azeezoo-
27 deen* has t often remarked, on witnessing the
28 minute attention which he bestows on the most,
29 trifling subject, from the shoeing of a horse, to
30 the organization of an army. He never loses sight
31 * The ktf memorable secretary and jihyskimif tlie Mnha)-aj:,h.