 | 1880 - 506 pages
...Dr. Duff (II., 49). Sir Charles Napier, in defence of his policy with regard to Sindh, said : — " We have no right to seize Sindh, yet we shall do so,...useful, and humane piece of rascality it will be." The ghastly words are a perfect mirror of the spirit that is cursing Afghanistan more and more ; and... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - India - 1867 - 516 pages
...it can be done with honesty." On a subsequent occasion he wrote, " We have no right to seize Sinde, yet we shall do so, and a very advantageous, useful, and humane piece of rascality it will be." The rascality is more apparent than the advantage, except to the captors, to whom it brought a rich... | |
 | J. J. Higginbotham - British - 1874 - 558 pages
...come to the result at once, if it can be done with honegty» * * * «\ye have no right to seize Sind, yet we shall do so. and a very advantageous, useful and humane piece oí rascality it will be." Napier returned to England in 1847, and met with an enthusiastic reception,... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - India - 1876 - 582 pages
...distant period swallow up the weaker;" and he subsequently remarked, " We have no right to seize Sinde, " yet we shall do so, and a very advantageous, useful, and " humane piece of rascality it will be." The rascality is more obvious than the advantage, except to the captors, to whom it brought a rich... | |
 | John Shaw Banks - India - 1880 - 318 pages
...the result at once, if it can be done with honesty.' And again : ' We have no right to seize Scinde, yet we shall do so ; and a very advantageous, useful and humane piece of rascality it will be.' Major Outram, the Resident, was the soul of honour, the Bayard of India ; but he was placed under Sir... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1880 - 598 pages
...many months since in our Magazine. " We have no right," he said, " to seize Scinde, yet we shall do, and a very advantageous, useful, and humane piece of rascality it will be." There is another part of the story by no means so well known which deserves to be told. Sir Charles's... | |
 | Lionel James Trotter - India - 1886 - 526 pages
...principle of justice and good faith. " We have no right," Napier himself had written, " to seize Sind ; yet we shall do so, and a very advantageous, useful, and humane piece of rascality it will be." There was more honesty — at any rate more truth in such a confession — than is to be found in the... | |
 | 1886 - 136 pages
...Frenchman. The Conqueror of Sinde himself unblushingly observes : " We have no right to seize Sinde, and yet we shall do so, and a very advantageous, useful, and humane piece of rascality it will be." The Beloochees were not the people to part with their independence on easy terms. A bloody engagement... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 966 pages
...forgotten. Sir Charles Nipier made more than one confession like this : " We Lave no right to seize Sind, yet we. shall do so, and a very advantageous, useful, and humane piece of rascality it will be." The battles of Meanee and Dubba, or Hydrabad, followed ; and the Indus became a British river from... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 938 pages
...forgotten. Sir Charles Napier made more "than one confession like this : " Vie have no right to seize Sind, yet we. shall do so, and a very advantageous, useful, and humane piece of rascality it will be." The battles of Meanee and Dubba, or Hydrabod, followed ; and the Indus became a British river from... | |
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We have no right to seize Sinde, " yet we shall do so, and a very advantageous, useful, and " humane piece of rascality it will be. 
