 | George Bruce Malleson - 1868 - 618 sider
...was in the occupation of bailiffs. Three days before that sad event, he thus wrote in his memoir: ' I have sacrificed my youth, my fortune, my life, to enrich my nation in Asia. Unfortunate friends, too weak relations, devoted all their property to the success of my projects.... | |
 | Great Britain. India Office. Record Branch, Frederick Charles Danvers - 1888 - 358 sider
...larger than France itself treated as an importunate impostor. Three days before his death he wrotej " I have sacrificed my youth. my " fortune, my life, to enrich my nation in Asia. Un" fortunate friends, too weak relations, devoted all their " property to the success of my projects.... | |
 | George Bruce Malleson - 1890 - 200 sider
...with all the judiciary forms : I have demanded, as the last of the creditors, that which is due to me. My services are treated as fables, my demand is denounced...ridiculous, I am treated as. the vilest of mankind. I am in the most deplorable indigence. The little property that remained to me has been seized. I am... | |
 | 1893 - 942 sider
...recalled him in disgrace and allowed him to die at home in poverty if not in actual want, exclaiming, " I have sacrificed my youth, my fortune, my life, to enrich my country in Asia." The French empire of the West, for which Montcalm fought so gallantly and for which... | |
 | Robert Watson Frazer - 1896 - 440 sider
...and dejection, until at length, three days before his death, he wrote in the bitterness of despair, " My services are treated as fables, my demand is denounced...ridiculous ; I am treated as the vilest of mankind ; I am in the most deplorable indigence." Clive, on the other hand, had been feasted and toasted by... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1903 - 546 sider
...his house in the Rue Neuve des Capucines was occupied by bailiffs, he wrote thus in his memoirs : " I have sacrificed my youth, my fortune, my life, to enrich my nation in India. My services are regarded as fables, I am treated as the vilest of mankind. The little property... | |
 | George Devereux Oswell - 1908 - 236 sider
...fell on evil days. He had uttered his last remonstrance at his unjust treatment in these terms : ' I have sacrificed my youth, my fortune, my life, to...enrich my nation in Asia : my services are treated as idle tales : my demand is denounced as ridiculous : I am treated as the vilest of mankind : and am... | |
 | Lovat Fraser - 1911 - 534 sider
...sacrificed my youth, my fortune, my life, to enrich my nation in Asia. . . . My services are regarded as fables, my demand is denounced as ridiculous, I am treated as the vilest of mankind." La Bourdonnais, the founder of French power in the Isle of France, was rewarded for his zeal by a long... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - 1911 - 304 sider
...November 1764, reflect poignantly the bitterness of his spirit. ' I have sacrificed,' he declared, ' my youth, my fortune, my life, to enrich my nation in Asia. Unfortunate friends, too weak relations, devoted all their property to the success of my projects.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1887 - 558 sider
...larger than France itself treated as an importunate impostor. Three days before his death he wrote, " I have sacrificed my youth. my " fortune, my life, to enrich my nation in Asia. Un" fortunate friends, too weak relations, devoted all their " property to the success of my projects.... | |
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I have complied with all the judiciary forms : I have demanded, as the last of the creditors, that which is due to me. My services are treated as fables, my demand is denounced as ridiculous, I am treated as. the vilest of mankind. 
