 We must not forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, at first no bigger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger, may at last threaten to burst, and overwhelm us with ruin.  Earl Canning - Pàgina 36per Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - 1892 - 220 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | sir John William Kaye - 1864 - 710 pàgines
...increased gravity and solemnity of utterance, almost, indeed, as one under the spell of prophecy : " I know not what course events may take. I hope and...first no bigger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger, may at last threaten to burst, and overwhelm us with ruin. What has happened once... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - 574 pàgines
...expressions, to which subsequent events gave almost the stamp of prophecy : — ' "I know not," he said, " what course events may take. I hope and pray that...first no bigger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger, may at last threaten to burst, and overwhelm us with ruin. What has happened once... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - 1876 - 582 pàgines
...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, growing larger and larger, "may at last threaten to burst,... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1882 - 580 pàgines
...Court of 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 pàgines
...of 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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Lionel James Trotter - 1886 - 526 pàgines
...of office, but I cannot forget that in our Indian Empire that greatest of all blessings depends npon a greater variety of chances and a more precarious...first no bigger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger, may at last threaten to burst and overwhelm us with ruin. What has happened once... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1886 - 480 pàgines
...greater variety of chances and a more precarious tenure than in any other quarter of the globe,' and that ' in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small...first no bigger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger, may at last t hreaten to burst and overwhelm us with ruin.' He had not been long... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1886 - 798 pàgines
...Court of 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - 1891 - 256 pàgines
...office. In the evening he attended the banquet, with which, in that hospitable epoch, the Company ca was wont to celebrate the outgoing of a new GovernorGeneral....not forget that in the sky of India, serene as it SPEECH AT THE DIRECTORS' BANQUET 37 is, a small cloud may arise, at first no bigger than a man's hand,... | |
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