 | sir John William Kaye - 1864 - عدد الصفحات: 710
...must not forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, at first no bigger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger,...last threaten to burst, and overwhelm us with ruin. What has happened once may happen again. The disturbing causes have diminished certainly, but they... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...must not forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, at first no bigger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger,...last threaten to burst, and overwhelm us with ruin. What has happened once may happen again. The disturbing causes have diminished, certainly, but they... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 582
...for a " peaceful time of office ; but I cannot forget that in the sky " of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise no larger " than a man's hand,...the wholesale massacre of Europeans, men, women and children — the loss and recovery of the North -West provinces — the dissolution of the East India... | |
 | James Grant - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 690
...wish for a peaceful term of office; but I cannot forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, no larger than a man's hand,...last threaten to burst and overwhelm us with ruin." Most prophetic was this sentence. Some of the most remarkable events in the history of British India... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 238
...wish for a peaceful term of office. But I cannot forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, no larger than a man's hand,...last threaten to burst and overwhelm us with ruin.' In the following year, the sepoys of the Bengal army mutinied, and all the valley of the Ganges from... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...wish for a peaceful term of office. But I cannot forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, no larger than a man's hand,...larger, may at last threaten to burst and overwhelm The Sepoy Us with ruin.' In the following year, the Sepoys of the Bengal ^"t'ny> army mutinied, and... | |
 | Thomas Rice Holmes - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 644
...departure, "that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, 1856- at first no bigger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger,...last threaten to burst and overwhelm us with ruin."* But with all his high sense of responsibility he had one grave defect as a ruler. His conscientiousness... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...globe,' and that ' in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, at first no bigger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger, may at last t hreaten to burst and overwhelm us with ruin.' He had not been long at Calcutta when it became apparent... | |
 | Sir Owen Tudor Burne - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 226
...wish for a peaceful term of office. But I cannot forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise no larger than a man's hand,...last threaten to burst and overwhelm us with ruin.' Warnings to Government had not been wanting, moreover, from experienced observers who had watched for... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...for a " peaceful time of office ; but I cannot forget that in the sky " of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise no larger "than a man's hand,...the wholesale massacre of Europeans, men, women and children — the loss and recovery of the North -West provinces — the dissolution of the East India... | |
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I wish for a peaceful term of office. But I cannot forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, no larger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger, may at last threaten to burst and overwhelm us with ruin. 
