[Footnote !: He was twenty-seven before he served his first
wars under the emir Houssein, who ruled over Khorasan and
Mawerainnehr. Von Hammer, vol. i. p. 262. Neither of these
statements agrees with the Memoirs. At twelve he was a boy.
"I fancied that I perceived in myself all the signs of
greatness and wisdom, and whoever came to visit me, I
received with great hauteur and dignity." At seventeen he
undertook the management of the flocks and herds of the
family, (p. 24.) At nineteen he became religious, and "left
off playing chess," made a kind of Budhist vow never to
injure living thing and felt his foot paralyzed from having
accidentally trod upon an ant, (p. 30.) At twenty, thoughts
of rebellion and greatness rose in his mind; at twenty-one,
he seems to have performed his first feat of arms. He was a
practised warrior when he served, in his twenty-seventh
year, under Emir Houssein.]
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