 | Reginald Heber - 1995 - 568 pages
...returning to their usual employment. Accordingly all the British functionaries went to the principal ghat, expressed their sorrow for the distress in which they...but reasoned with them on the absurdity of punishing themseves for an act in which they had no share, and which they had done their utmost to prevent or... | |
 | 1877 - 460 pages
...British functionaries went to them expressed their sorrow for the distress in which they saw them, and reasoned with them on the absurdity of punishing themselves...and after much bitter weeping, it was resolved that Ganga was Ganga still ; Mr. Bird (the chief English official in Benares)* who was one of the ambasadors... | |
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Two or three days' abstinance, however, tired them; and a hint was given to the magistrates and other public men, that a visit of condolence and some expression of sympathy would comfort them, and give them some excuse for returning to their usual course... 
