The Lawrences of the PunjabJ.M. Dent & Company, 1908 - 350 pàgines |
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Pàgina 293 - Frail were the works that defended the hold that we held with our lives — Women and children among us, God help them, our children and wives ! Hold it we might — and for fifteen days or for twenty at most. "Never surrender, I charge you, but every man die at his post...
Pàgina 160 - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, — the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep, who can.
Pàgina 153 - It is objectionable in manner : because (unintentionally, no doubt) its whole tone substitutes you personally, as the Resident at Lahore, for the Government which you represent. It is calculated to raise the inference that a new state of things is arising; that the fact of your arrival with a desire to bring peace to the...
Pàgina 289 - ... deserted. The enemy have followed us up, and we have now been besieged for four hours, and shall probably to-night be surrounded. The enemy are very bold, and our Europeans very low. I look on our position now as ten times as bad as it was yesterday — indeed, it is very critical ; we shall be obliged to concentrate, if we are able ; we shall have to abandon much supplies, and to blow up much powder. Unless we are relieved quickly, say in fifteen or twenty days, we shall hardly be able to maintain...
Pàgina 153 - My own opinion, as already more than once expressed in writing to your lordship, is against annexation. I did think it unjust : I now think it impolitic. It is quite possible I may be prejudiced and blinded; but I have thought over the subject long and carefully. However, if I had not intended to have done my duty under all circumstances, conscience permitting, I should not have hurried out from England to have taken part in arrangements that, under any circumstances, could not but have in them more...
Pàgina 244 - It is a thing well to be considered ; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
Pàgina 208 - Of none : for truly he stands alone. But he belongs essentially to the school of Henry Lawrence. I only knocked down the walls of the Bunnoo forts. John Nicholson has since reduced the people (the most ignorant, depraved, and bloodthirsty in the Punjab) to such a state of good order and respect for the laws, that in the last year of his charge not only was there no murder, burglary, or highway robbery, but not an attempt at any of these crimes.
Pàgina 281 - Time is everything just now. Time, firmness, promptness, conciliation, and prudence ; every officer, each individual European, high and low, may at this crisis prove most useful or even dangerous. A firm and cheerful aspect must be maintained : there must be no bustle, no appearance of alarm, still less of panic ; but at the same time there must be the utmost watchfulness and promptness ; everywhere the first germ of insurrection must be put down instantly.
Pàgina 295 - If it please Providence that I live through this business, you must get me alongside of you again, and be my guide and help in endeavouring to follow his example ; for I am so weak and unstable, that I shall never do any good of myself.
Pàgina 226 - The Government is bound in duty, as well as in policy, to act on every such occasion with the purest integrity and in the most scrupulous observance of good faith ; where even a shadow of doubt can be shown, the claim should at once be abandoned.