Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . ngaged in repressing the revolts of the numerous chiefs whounited their forces against him. He had therefore but little leisure to organizeany regular plan of government; but he succeeded in establishing his authorityby several signal victories, and reduced many of the hostile Rajput rulers tosubjection: so that, at the time of his de
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . ngaged in repressing the revolts of the numerous chiefs whounited their forces against him. He had therefore but little leisure to organizeany regular plan of government; but he succeeded in establishing his authorityby several signal victories, and reduced many of the hostile Rajput rulers tosubjection: so that, at the time of his death, he was the acknowledged sover-eign of nearly all the north of India. In 1528, Baber fell sick, and was advised to write a poem in praise of oneof the saints, Chaja Ahrar, to induce his intercession with God for the recoveryof his health. Whatever the monarch thought of the motive, he wrote thepoem, probably to beguile the weariness of an eight months illness. He recov-ered, but only to be seized soon after with a mortal sickness, of which he diedin 1530, at the age of forty-nine. Baber was one of the most accomplished of the eastern princes, being a poet,historian, and musician, of no ordinary merit; elegant yet free in his manners, 7 MAHOMMED BABER,. Portrait of Mabommed Baber.—From a miniature painted in India. RAPHAEL. ^ easy Df access to his subjects, and fond of social enjoyments. He was so en-thusiastic an admirer of the beauties of nature, that in the days of his adversitywhen closely pursued by his enemies, he would pause in the midst of his flio-htto gaze on a beautiful landscape, or gather a simple flower; and his heart wasso little corrupted by ambition,, that amid all his prosperity, his thoughts wouldoften tutu to the home of his boyhood, the lovely valley of Ferghana, with allthe warmth of youthful affection ; and there were moments, perhaps, when hewould have given up all his brilliant conquests and his high station, to recoverthat one beloved spot^ which
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