 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...  The Works of Lord Macaulay - Page 440by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 654 pages
...pestilential jungles, preferring famine and fever, and the haunts of tigers, to the tyranny of him, to whom an English and a Christian government had,...lucre, sold their substance and their blood, and the honor of their wives and daughters. Colonel Champion remonstrated with the Nabob Vizier, and sent strong... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...pestilential jungles, preferring famine and fever, and the haunts of tigers, to the tyranny of him, to whom an English and a Christian government had,...conditions as to the mode in which the war was to be cartied on. He had troubled himself about nothing but his forty lacs; and, though he might disapprove... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...pestilential jungles, preferring famine, and fever, and the haunts of tigers, to the tyranny of him to whom an English and a Christian government had...lucre sold their substance and their blood, and the honor of their wives and children !" And yet Mr. Dundas, admitting that " the Rohilla war was an unjustifiable... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...pestilential jungles, preferring famine, and fever, and the haunts of tigers, to the tyranny of him to whom an English and a Christian government had...lucre sold their substance and their blood, and the honor of their wives and children !" And yet Mr. Dnndas, admitting that " the Rohilla war was an unjustifiable... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...pestilential jungles, preferring famine, and fever, and the haunts of tigers, to the tyranny of him to whom an English and a Christian government had...lucre sold their substance and their blood, and the honor of their wives and children !" And yet Mr. Dundas, admitting that " the Ilohilla war was an unjustifiable... | |
 | John C. Cobden - 1853 - 528 pages
...to pestilential jungles, preferring famine and fever and the haunts of tigers to the tyranny of him to whom an English and a Christian government had,...governor had made no conditions as to the mode in whitih the war was to be carried on. He had troubled himself about nothing but his forty lacs ; and,... | |
 | James J. Macintyre - 1854 - 388 pages
...him to whom an English and a Christian govern* Macaulay's Essays, " Life of Warren Hastings." ment had, for shameful lucre, sold their substance and their blood, and the honours of their wives and daughters."* The British armies, under the standard of the cross in India,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 360 pages
...pestilential jungles, preferring famine and fever, and the haunts of tigers, to the tyranny of him, to whom an English and a Christian government had,...daughters. Colonel Champion remonstrated with the JSabob Vizier, and sent strong representations to Fort William ; but the Governor had made no conditions... | |
 | 1867 - 894 pages
...jungles, preferring famine and fever, and the haunts of tigers, to the tyranny of him, to whom an Bullish and a Christian government had, for shameful lucre,...substance and their blood, and the honour of their wives i and daughters. Cobnel Champion remonstrated with the Nabob Vizier, and sent strong representations... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 pages
...the haunts of tigers, to the tyranny of him, to whom an English and a Christian government had, fur shameful lucre, sold their substance, and their blood,...Vizier, and sent strong representations to Fort William j but the Governor had made no conditions as to the mode in which the war was to be carried on. He... | |
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