 | 1853 - 636 pages
...convenient opportunity of doing so shall offer. ' I take this fitting opportunity,' he says, ' of recording my ' strong and deliberate opinion, that in the exercise...territory or revenue, as may from time to time present them' selves.' If this reasoning be soiind, — and we ourselves cannot detect a flaw in it, — the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 396 pages
...1848: — " I take this fitting occasion of recording my strong and deliberate opinion, that, in tbe 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... | |
 | 1849 - 820 pages
...was from a minute of Lord Dalhousie, 30ft August, 1848:— "I take this fitting occasion of recording my strong and deliberate opinion, that, in the exercise...the British Government is bound not to put aside or to neglect such rightful opportunities of acqoiring territory or revenue as may from time to time present... | |
 | China - 1849 - 784 pages
...from a minute of Lord Dalhousie, 30tb August, 1848: — "I take this fitting occasion of recording my strong and deliberate opinion, that, in the exercise...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... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - India - 1857 - 264 pages
...quarrel. Lord Dalhousie indorses the above as follows:—" I " take this fitting occasion of recording my strong " and deliberate opinion that in the exercise...British Government is bound " not to put aside or to neglect such rightful oppor" tunities of acquiring territory or revenue, as may " from time to time... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - Great Britain - 1858 - 552 pages
...convenient opportunity of doing so shall offer. " I take this fitting opportunity," he says, " of recording my strong and deliberate opinion, that in the exercise...revenue, as may from time to time present themselves." If this reasoning be sound, — and we ourselves cannot detect a flaw in it, — the reader, we think,... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Ethnology - 1858 - 736 pages
...believe, will be promoted thereby." — "I take this fitting opportunity of recording," he wrote again, "my strong and deliberate opinion, that in the exercise...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... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Ethnology - 1858 - 414 pages
...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,...revenue, as may from time to time present themselves." Annexation, on every "just opportunity," of every intervening State, that " may lapse " in the tnidst... | |
 | Evans Bell - Constitutional history - 1859 - 226 pages
...year's experience in the office of Governor-General : — " I take this fitting opportunity of recording my strong and deliberate opinion, that in the exercise...revenue, as may from time to time present themselves." This is not the place to discuss the justice of the annexation of the Punjab, Sattara, Jhansi, Nagpore,... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Great Britain - 1859 - 398 pages
...(30th August, 1848) that celebrated Sattara despatch, in which he took the occasion of recording his " strong and deliberate opinion, that in the exercise...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... | |
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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... 
