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It was a royal retreat , in which the Moslem monarchs shut up such of their relatives , as might endanger their safety ; allowing them all kinds of luxuries and amusements , in the midst of which they passed their lives in voluptuous indolence . Such at least is the characteristic thesis that Paulding elaborates through two volumes of discursive narrative interspersed with bits of vigorous action . Garrick was what is called a man of fashion , desirous to maintain his place as such among the great , among whom his talents made him a welcome associate . Chris Alexander , the deputy head of the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan , said Monday in Kabul that most of 142 Taliban leaders listed as such by the U.N. in 1999 " continue to organize , plan and carry out terrorist activities in this country and in this region . His biographer has preserved a number of such for the amusement of posterity , and one at least deserves to be remembered by our younger critics . ] It will also surprise such of the few readers as might have been disposed to interest themselves in the love affair between the Chevalier and his charming Peggy , which makes such a figure in the conclusion of his work to learn that Chevalier Johnstone was all this while a married man - - - an absolute Benedick - - - a circumstance which he no where hints at during his Memoirs , and that the amour , if such existed , was not of a character to be boasted of in the face of the public .