 | 1897 - 986 pages
...principle as coercive measures against the sultan of Turkey are called for — namely, that "the British government would be guilty In the sight of God and...administration fraught with suffering to millions." Such a doctrine is always more soothing to the despoiler than to the despoiled. The natives regarded... | |
 | Sir Edwin Arnold - 1865 - 410 pages
...Viceroy, Cap. XXIV. " have been exhausted in vain. I feel that the Government of India, which I represent, would be guilty in the sight of God and man, if it...any longer to aid in sustaining, by its countenance and power, an administration fraught with suffering to millions. For more than fifty years the British... | |
 | Henry Crossley Irwin - 1880 - 414 pages
...The letter concluded, after fervidly denouncing the existing misrule, and declaring that the British Government would be " guilty in the sight of God and...any longer to aid in sustaining, by its countenance and power, an administration fraught with suffering to millions," and that the violated treaty of 1801... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1882 - 238 pages
...Resident at the Court of Lucknow, to assume the administration of Oudh, on the ground that ' the British Government would be guilty in the sight of God and...proclamation was issued on the i3th February 1856. The King, Wajid Alf, bowed to irresistible force, although he refused to recognise the justice of his deposition.... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1882 - 580 pages
...of Lucknow, to assume the direct administration of Oudh, on the ground that ' the British Grounds of Government would be guilty in the sight of God and man if ^exa" it were any longer to aid in sustaining by its countenance an administration fraught with suffering... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1884 - 246 pages
...Resident at the Court of Lucknow, to assume the administration of Oudh, on the ground that ' the British Government would be guilty in the sight of God and...suffering to millions.' The proclamation was issued on the 13th February 1856. The King, Wajid AH, bowed to irresistible force, although he refused to recognise... | |
 | Lionel James Trotter - 1886 - 526 pages
...!• Garden of India " ; Kaye ; Arnold. 320 India under Victoria. [1856. Government would be " gnilty in the sight of God and man, if it were any longer to aid in sustaining by its countenance and power an administration fraught with suffering to millions." The newtreaty which the King was bidden... | |
 | 1888 - 950 pages
...carried out their perilous decision, declaring formally, as the ground of annexation, that " the British Government would be guilty, in the sight of God and...administration fraught with suffering to millions." Tha permanent aspects of the policy which received in this act its greatest historical expression,... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1890 - 246 pages
...Proclamation on the i,3th February, 1856, on the ground, to use Lord Dalhousie's words, that ' the British Government would be guilty in the sight of God and...administration fraught with suffering to millions.' ' With this feeling on my mind,' he wrote devoutly in his private diary, 'and in humble reliance on... | |
 | Sir William Wilson Hunter - 1895 - 270 pages
...Resident at the Court of Lucknow, to assume the administration of Oudh. on the ground that ' the British Government would be guilty in the sight of God and...suffering to millions.' The proclamation was issued on the 1310 February 1856. The King of Oudh, Wajid Alf, bowed to irresistible force, although he refused to... | |
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the British Government would be guilty in the sight of God and man if it were any longer to aid in sustaining by its countenance an administration fraught with suffering to millions. 
