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Tree as we are from many difficulties which beset his path, and prepared 
his failure, it may not be amiss to remember, that he was still, in no small 
measure, his own destroyer. The precipitancy, the arrogant temper, the 
superciliousness, «above all the want of sympathy alike with Europeans and 
natives, of the Hiberno-Gallic soldier are not without their moral for us. 
The empire of India has never been won, could not have been w r on, by 
men animated by such a spirit. Baber and Acbar conquered, just because 
they were generally just, considerate, generous and genial, as well as firm 
and prompt to strike, when striking was inevitable. In his faults, as in the 
catastrophe of the raj which he undermined, Lally recalls not a little the 
Mahmood Toghlaks, and Auzungzibs, who again and again have shewn how 
warily the Indian warrior and ruler should pursue a track, which must ever 
peculiarly lie 
, “— per ignes 
“ Suppositos cineri doloso .” 
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