 | sir John William Kaye - 1864 - 710 pàgines
...not what course events may take. I hope and pray that we may not reach the extremity of war. I wish for a peaceful time of office, but I cannot forget...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 cloud may arise, at first... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - 574 pàgines
...said, " what course events may take. I hope and pray that we may not reach the extremity of war. I wish for a peaceful time of office ; but I cannot forget...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 cloud may arise, at first... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - 1875 - 682 pàgines
...not what course events may take. I hope and pray that we may not reach the extremity of war. I wish for a peaceful time of office, but I cannot forget...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 cloud may arise, at first... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - 1876 - 582 pàgines
...banquet given to him by the Court of Directors he 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,... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - 1880 - 606 pàgines
...• . j 1 " i,i kl i iT A ji'j VL nor-genenil. lie 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 ia, a small cloud may arise no larger ' than a man's hand, but which,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1886 - 480 pàgines
...usefulness ' which lay before him ; adding, however, with prophetic apprehension, that he could not forget that ' in our Indian empire that greatest of...precarious tenure than in any other quarter of the globe,' and that ' in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, at first no bigger... | |
 | Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - 1891 - 242 pàgines
...not what course events may take. I hope and pray that we may not reach the extremity of war. I wish for a peaceful time of office, but I cannot forget...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 cloud may arise, at first... | |
 | Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - 1892 - 246 pàgines
...not what course events may take. I hope and pray that we may not reach the extremity of war. I wish for a peaceful time of office, but I cannot forget...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 cloud may arise, at first... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - 1893 - 622 pàgines
...banquet given to him by the Court of Directors he ottered 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,... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - 1897 - 220 pàgines
...banquet, he uttered those memorable and almost prophetic words which have now become historic : ' I wish for a peaceful time of office ; but I cannot forget...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 cloud may arise, at first... | |
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I wish for a peaceful time of office, but I cannot forget that in our Indian Empire that greatest of all blessings depends upon a greater variety of chances and a more precarious tenure than in any other quarter of the globe. We must not forget that in... 
