 | Matthew Forster Conolly - Celebrities - 1866 - 518 pages
...day on which they broke out in their frenzy of blood have been regarded as a simple, harmless, and timid race, not by the Government alone, but even by those who knew them best, were dwelling among them, and were their earliest victims — sentences, these, which were curiously... | |
 | Lionel James Trotter - India - 1889 - 288 pages
...day on which they broke out in their frenzy of blood, have been regarded as a simple, harmless and timid race, not by the Government alone, but even...dwelling among them, and were their earliest victims." And yet Dalhousie was afterwards accused, not only of helping to bring about the Mutiny, but of obstinate... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - Governors - 1890 - 246 pages
...day on which they broke out in their frenzy of blood, have been regarded as a simple, harmless and timid race, not by the Government alone, but even...will venture to give you assurance of continued peace V Neither on this, nor on any other question, did Lord Dalhousie shrink from declaring the plain truth,... | |
 | Henry George Keene - India - 1893 - 504 pages
...insurrection may arise in which people of the most gentle manners may be led to commit bloody excesses : and " remembering these things no prudent man will venture to give you assurance of continued peace." * This peril, then, Lord Dalhousie suspected, if he did not quite understand : but the preparation... | |
 | Scotland - 1904 - 1126 pages
...lately seen how in the very midst of us insurrection may arise like an exhalation from the earth. . . . Remembering these things, no prudent man will venture to give you assurance of continued peace." It is hardly fair, then, to accuse Lord Dalhousie of blindness in not foreseeing the mutiny of the... | |
 | Henry George Keene - 1906 - 412 pages
...insurrection may arise in which people of the most gentle manners may be led to commit bloody excesses: and "remembering these things, no prudent man will venture to give you assurance of continued peace." * This peril, then, Lord Dalhousie suspected, if he did not quite understand : but the preparation... | |
 | Henry George Keene - India - 1906 - 412 pages
...insurrection may arise in which people of the most gentle manners may be led to commit bloody excesses: and "remembering these things, no prudent man will venture to give you assurance of continued peace." * This peril, then, Lord Dalhousie suspected, if he did not quite understand : but the preparation... | |
 | Henry George Keene - India - 1906 - 424 pages
...insurrection may arise in which people of the most gentle manners may be led to commit bloody excesses : and " remembering these things, no prudent man will venture to give you assurance of continued peace."* This peril, then, Lord Dalhousie suspected, if he did not quite understand : but the preparation to... | |
 | John Buchan - India - 1923 - 334 pages
...who, to the very day in which they broke out in their frenzy of blood, had been regarded as a simple timid race, not by the Government alone, but even...dwelling among them and were their earliest victims. . . . No prudent man will venture to give you assurance of continued peace. While we may rejoice that... | |
 | John Buchan, Lord Edward Gleichen - World history - 1923 - 338 pages
...who, to the very day in which they broke out in their frenzy of blood, had been regarded as a simple timid race, not by the Government alone, but even...dwelling among them and were their earliest victims. ... No prudent man will venture to give you assurance of continued peace. While we may rejoice that... | |
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... very midst of us, insurrection may arise like an exhalation from the earth, and how cruel violence, worse than all the excesses of war, may be suddenly committed by men who, to the very day... 