Life of Sir Henry Lawrence, Volume 2Smith, Elder, 1872 |
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Life of Sir Henry Lawrence, Volume 2 Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes,Herman Merivale Volledige weergave - 1872 |
Life of Sir Henry Lawrence, Volume 2 Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes,Herman Merivale Volledige weergave - 1872 |
Life of Sir Henry Lawrence, Volume 2 Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes,Herman Merivale Volledige weergave - 1872 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 373 - To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Pagina 310 - ... we are notorious imbeciles, of all authority and all emolument. These sentiments of mine, freely expressed during the last fifteen years, have done me injury, but I am not the less convinced of their soundness ; and that until we treat natives, and especially native soldiers, as having much the same feelirgs, the same ambition, the same perception of ability and imbecility, as ourselves, we shall never be safe.
Pagina 131 - I take this fitting occasion of recording my strong and deliberate opinion, that, in the exercise of a wise and sound policy, the British Government is bound not to put aside or to neglect such rightful opportunities of acquiring territory or revenue as may from time to time present themselves...
Pagina 375 - There was an instant darkness, aud a kind of red glare, and for a second or two no one spoke. Finding myself uninjured, though covered with bricks from top to toe, I jumped up, at the same time uncle cried out that he was killed. Assistance came, and we found that Sir Henry's left leg had been almost taken off, high up by the thigh, a painful wound.
Pagina 121 - ... because (unintentionally, no doubt) its whole tone substitutes you personally, as the Resident at Lahore, for the Government which you represent. It is calculated to raise the inference that a new state of things is arising, that the fact of your arrival with a desire to bring peace to the Punjab is likely to affect the warlike measures of the Government, and that you are come as a peacemaker for the Sikhs, as standing between them and the Government. This cannot be.
Pagina 316 - A third remarked when he heard that Sind was to be joined to Bengal: " Perhaps there will be an order to join London to Bengal." The other day an Oudh sepoy of the Bombay cavalry at Neemuch, being asked if he liked annexation, replied: " No ; I used to be a great man when I went home ; the best in my village rose as I approached ; now the lowest puff their pipes in my face.
Pagina 90 - If ever there was a device for ensuring mal-government, it is that of a Native ruler and minister both relying on foreign bayonets, and directed by a British Resident ; even if all three were able, virtuous, and considerate, still the wheels of government could hardly move smoothly.
Pagina 58 - Singh, and the heirs male of his body, all the hilly or mountainous country, with its dependencies, situated to the eastward of the river Indus, and westward of the river Ravi...
Pagina 122 - Resident in the Punjab, or the presence of Sir F. Currie instead. By the orders of the Court of Directors, that policy is not to be finally declared until after the country is subjected to our military possession, and after a full review of the whole subject. The orders of the Court shall be obeyed by me.
Pagina 359 - ... deserted. The enemy have followed us up, and we have now been besieged for four hours, and shall probably to-night be surrounded. The enemy are very bold, and our Europeans very low. I look on our position now as ten times as bad as it was yesterday — indeed, it is very critical ; we shall be obliged to concentrate, if we are able ; we shall have to abandon much supplies, and to blow up much powder. Unless we are relieved quickly, say in fifteen or twenty days, we shall hardly be able to maintain...