The Life of Major-General Sir Henry Marion Durand, K.C.S.I., C.B., of the Royal Engineers, Volume 1W.H. Allen, 1883 |
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Page 240 - Chase brave employments with a naked sword Throughout the world. Fool not ; for all may have, If they dare try, a glorious life or grave.
Page 291 - Her Majesty being desirous that the Governments of the several Princes and Chiefs of India who now govern their own territories should be perpetuated, and that the representation and dignity of their Houses should be continued...
Page 291 - Be assured that nothing shall disturb the engagement thus made to you so long as your house is loyal to the Crown and faithful to the conditions of the treaties, grants, or engagements, which record its obligations to the British Government.
Page 59 - I was walking out of his tent rather suddenly after this piece of information, he asked me what I was going to do, and I said to send in my resignation.
Page 299 - Teetotalism now in turn began to get the upper hand, and in the course of the next two or three years the "moderate" party almost disappeared ; the majority of its members doubtless passing over to the ranks of the total abstainers. But these now fell out among themselves. Up to 1839, The New British and Foreign Society had two pledges, the long and the short; the former including the "neither give nor...
Page 452 - Cabool ; and you must feel as I do, that the loss of another army, from whatever cause it might arise, might be fatal to our Government in India. ' I do not undervalue the aid which our Government in India...
Page 82 - ... of the love of plunder and of war, which pervades so large a portion of the population of India, would again expose to devastation countries which, under our protection, have enjoyed many of the advantages of peace. To maintain, therefore, unimpaired, the position we now hold, is a duty, not to ourselves alone, but to humanity.
Page 329 - Each member of the Government now holds a separate portfolio, and despatches the ordinary business connected with it upon his own responsibility, only reserving matters of exceptional importance for the opinion of a colleague, or the decision of the assembled council.
Page 354 - that we could again seize Afghanistan, if it were advisable or necessary, and that, with our Indus frontier complete in its communications, parallel and perpendicular, no power on earth could shake us out of that country. I know, too, that, with the Afghans friendly and cordial, we could, without the actual seizure of the country for ourselves, organise its defence in a most destructive manner against hostile invasions. But neither alternative is at present imposed on us as of the smallest necessity.
Page 453 - I consider the preservation of the army in Afghanistan essential to the preservation of our empire in India ; and, however the world might forgive or applaud me, I should never forgive myself, if I exposed that army to any material and serious danger, for the possible accomplishment of any object now to be obtained in Afghanistan.