 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - British - 1859 - 552 pages
...eldest, or indeed any other son, would give no security whatever for any permanent good Government." § " What the people want, and most earnestly pray for,...invited into rebellion by the present state of misrule. . . . All, from the highest to the lowest, would at this time hail the advent of our administration... | |
 | Henry Beveridge - India - 1862 - 796 pages
...After adverting to what he conceived to be the proper remedy, Sir W. Sleeman continued thus: — " What the people want, and most earnestly pray for,...opposed to the best interests and most earnest wishes of AD шг. the people as that of Oude now is ; at least I have never seen or read of one. People of all... | |
 | sir John William Kaye - 1864 - 710 pages
...possible, be native. Let not a 132. rupee come into the Company's coffer*." 1853. the property they leave, not invested in our Government Securities;...establishments, and of the landholders driven or invited to rebellion by the present state of misrule." But he added : " I believe that it is your Lordship's... | |
 | Frederic John Goldsmid - Generals - 1880 - 486 pages
...public buildings, &c. The minister has the land revenue ; and all are making enormous fortunes. . . . What the people want, and most earnestly pray for,...troops and other public establishments, and of the landowners driven or invited into rebellion by the present state of misrule. There is not, I believe,... | |
 | Frederick P. Gibbon - India - 1908 - 398 pages
...vol. i. pp.1$6ct scq. that their children will be permitted to inherit the property they leave . . . and the humbler classes, because they are now abandoned...to the merciless rapacity of the starving troops. ..." But while urging this step upon the Court of Directors Sleeman sounded a note of warning, which... | |
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All classes, save the knaves who now surround and govern the king, earnestly pray for this — the educated classes, because they would then have a chance of respectable employment, which none of them now have ; the middle classes, because they find no... 