| sir John William Kaye - 1864 - 710 페이지
...of chances and a more precarious tenure than in any other quarter of the globe. We must not forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small...last threaten to burst, and overwhelm us with ruin. What has happened once may happen again. The disturbing causes have diminished certainly, but they... | |
| Henry Allon - 1865 - 574 페이지
...of chances and a more precarious tenure than in any other quarter of the globe. We must not forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small...last threaten to burst, and overwhelm us with ruin. What has happened once may happen again. The disturbing causes have diminished, certainly, but they... | |
| James Grant - 1876 - 690 페이지
...office; but I cannot forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, no larger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger,...last threaten to burst and overwhelm us with ruin." Most prophetic was this sentence. Some of the most remarkable events in the history of British India... | |
| John Clark Marshman - 1876 - 582 페이지
...uttered these memorable expressions : — " I wish for a " peaceful time of office ; but I cannot forget that in the sky " of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise no larger " than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger, "may at last threaten to burst,... | |
| John Clark Marshman - 1880 - 606 페이지
...but I cannot forget that in the sky ' of India, serene as it ia, a small cloud may arise no larger ' than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger,...threaten to burst, and overwhelm us with ' ruin." The succeeding narrative will show how prophetic this enunciation proved to be. His administration... | |
| William Wilson Hunter - 1882 - 580 페이지
...Directors, uttered these prophetic words, ' I wish for a peaceful term of office. But I cannot forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, no larger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger, may at last threaten to burst and... | |
| William Wilson Hunter - 1882 - 238 페이지
...Directors, uttered these prophetic words : ' I wish for a peaceful term of office. But I cannot forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, no larger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger, may at last threaten to burst and... | |
| Thomas Rice Holmes - 1888 - 644 페이지
...not forget," he said, at a banquet given by the East India Company a few months before his departure, "that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, 1856- at first no bigger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger, may at last threaten... | |
| William Wilson Hunter - 1886 - 790 페이지
...office. But I cannot forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, no larger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger,...last threaten to burst and overwhelm us with ruin.' In the following year, the Sepoys of the Bengal The Sepoy army mutinied, and all the valley of the... | |
| Lionel James Trotter - 1886 - 526 페이지
...of chances and a more precarious tenure than in any other quarter of the globe. We must not forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small...last threaten to burst and overwhelm us with ruin. What has happened once may happen again."* On his landing in Calcutta it was still the cloudless sty... | |
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