 ... he was a man of impulse, with no more power of self-control than an infant. To attack or defend a fortress, no better man than Captain Stoddart could have been found ; but for a diplomatic mission, requiring coolness and self-command, a man less adapted...  The Bokhara Victims - Pàgina 4per John Grover - 1845 - 367 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1845 - 562 pàgines
...dissuaded him from it. Stoddart was a mere soldier, a man of the greatest bravery and determination, with n delicate sense of a soldier's honour; but he was a...succeeded in his mission to Herat, he returned to Tehran. ' In the year 1838, Sir John M'Neill, her Majesty's ambassador at the court of Persia, gave... | |
 | 1845 - 718 pàgines
...Captain Grover as it is to us, ought to have made him hesitate to assert, that, ' for a diplo' matte mission requiring coolness and self-command, a man...the purpose could not readily have been met < with.' Again, we assure Captain Grover that we do not at all question the truth of his regard for his friend,... | |
 | Peter Hopkirk - 2001 - 588 pàgines
...determination. To attack or defend a fortress, no better man could have been found. But for a diplomatic mission a man less adapted to the purpose could not readily have been met with.' Indeed, much of the responsibility for his fate rests with those who chose him for this most delicate... | |
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