A History of British India, from the Earliest English IntercourseG. Routledge, 1881 - 694 sider |
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Side 655 - But to be soldier all day and be sentinel all thro' the night — Ever the mine and assault, our sallies, their lying alarms. Bugles and drums in the darkness, and shoutings and soundings to arms, , Ever the labour of fifty that had to be done by five, Ever the marvel among us that one should be left alive, Ever the day with its traitorous death from the loopholes around, Ever the night with its...
Side 388 - Singh engages never to take, or retain in his service any British subject, nor the subject of any European or American State, without the consent of the British Government.
Side 442 - India is concerned, appeared to me peculiarly wise and liberal, and he is evidently attached to, and thinks well of the country and its inhabitants. His public measures, in their general tendency, evince a steady wish to improve their present condition. No government in India pays so much attention to schools and public institutions for education. In none are the taxes lighter, and in the administration of justice to the natives in their own languages, in the establishment of...
Side 334 - ... Magistrates, Judges, Ambassadors, and Governors of provinces, in all the complicated and extensive relations of those sacred trusts and exalted stations, and under peculiar circumstances, which greatly enhance the solemnity of every public obligation, and aggravate the difficulty of every public charge.
Side 655 - Frail were the works that defended the hold that we held with our lives — Women and children among us, God help them, our children and wives ! Hold it we might — and for fifteen days or for twenty at most. " Never surrender, I charge you, but every man die at his post...
Side 595 - ... discharge of this duty, which they owe to the protecting power, will find their interests promoted thereby ; and those who take a contrary course will be treated as enemies to the British Government, and will be punished accordingly. " The inhabitants of all the territories on the left bank of the...
Side 492 - If you wish for peace, you may go away ; but if you ask either money or territory, no friendship can exist between us. This is Burmese custom.
Side 297 - Countries of many hundred coss shall be overrun and plundered ; Lord Lake shall not have leisure to breathe for a moment ; and calamities will fall on lacks of human beings in continual war by the attacks of my army, which overwhelms like the waves of the sea.
Side 136 - I do not trust to Mr. Francis's promises of candour, convinced that he is incapable of it. I judge of his public conduct by his private, which I have found to be void of truth. and honour.
Side 182 - Control was to be composed of six commissioners, all members of the privy council, chosen by the king, of whom the chancellor of the Exchequer, and one of the principal secretaries of state, were to be two...