 Then the horrors of Indian war were let loose on the fair valleys and cities of Rohilcund. The whole country was in a blaze. More than a hundred thousand people fled from their homes to pestilential jungles, preferring famine, and fever, and the haunts...  Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings - Page 48by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1907 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James J. Macintyre - 1854 - 388 pages
...till the memorable campaign in which the cross of Saint George was planted on the walls of Ghizni."* " Then the horrors of Indian war were let loose on the fair valleys and cities of Rohilcund. The whole countrywas in a blaze. More than 100,000 people fled from their homes to pestilential jungles, preferring... | |
 | 1867 - 894 pages
...were heard to exclaim, ' We have had all the fighting and these rogues are to have all the profit.' Then the horrors of Indian war were let loose on the fair valleys and cities of R ihilcund. The. whole country was in a blaze. More than a hundred thousand people tied from their... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 pages
...were heard to exclaim, "We have had all the fighting, and those rogues are to have all the profit." Then the horrors of Indian war were let loose on the fair valleys and cities nt K- ili ilrum I. The whole country was in a blaze. More than a hundred thousand people fled from... | |
 | William C. Pearce - 1876 - 252 pages
...brave resistance, overpowered, and treated with the utmost barbarity. In the words of Macaulay : " The horrors of Indian war were let loose on the fair...Christian government had, for shameful lucre, sold theiv 102 HISTORY OF INDIA. [CHAP. Xlt. substance, and their blood, and the honour of their wives and... | |
 | James Grant - 1876 - 602 pages
...described." This affords a sufficient key-note for one of Macaulay's eloquent passages, thus : — " Then the horrors of Indian war were let loose on the...Rohilcund. The whole country was in a blaze. More than 100,000 people fled from their homes to pestilential jungles, preferring famine, fever, and the haunts... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 898 pages
...were heard to exclaim, "We have had all the fighting, and those rogues are to have all the profit." Then the horrors of Indian war were let loose on the...valleys and cities of Rohilcund. The whole country wns in a blaze. More than a hundred thousand people fled from their homes to pestilential jungles,... | |
 | Lionel James Trotter - 1878 - 412 pages
...found his safety in flight and in exile." And Macaulay, improving on Colonel Champion, tells us how "more than a hundred thousand people fled from their homes to pestilential jungles," rather than endure the tyranny of him to whom a Christian Government had " sold their substance, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 828 pages
...were heard to exclaim, " We have had all the fighting, and those rogues are to have all the profit." Then the horrors of Indian war were let loose on the...was in a. blaze. More than a hundred thousand people flud from their homes to pestilential jungles, preferring famine, and fever, and the haunts of tigers,... | |
 | Thomas Miller Maguire - 1880 - 140 pages
...with the firmness of Mucius." "In which the cross of St. George was planted on the walls of Ghizni." " Then the horrors of Indian war were let loose on the fair valleys and cities of Rohilcund." "The ferment produced by the Middlesex election had gone down. " "Will call forth in a week more Oateses... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 pages
...were heard to exclaim, " We have had all the fighting, and those rogues are to have all the profit." Then the horrors of Indian war were let loose on the...homes to pestilential jungles, preferring famine, a^d fever, and the haunts of tigers, to the tyranny of him, to whom an English and a Christian government... | |
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