 | Warren Hastings - 1786 - 222 pàgines
...love of peace to be the aggreffor, in certain cafes, than to fee preparations of intended hoftility, and wait for their maturity, and for their open effect to repel it. The faith of treaties I have ever held inviolate. Of this I have given the moft ample and public teilimonies... | |
 | 1826 - 796 pàgines
...writings, on the subject of that great question of policy to which allusion has already been made, arc distinctly opposed to that timid system of neutrality...it." Sir John, concludes this chapter by remarking :— Tbe most eminent statesmen who have learnt their lessons in England, and those wTio have gained... | |
 | John Malcolm - 1826 - 648 pàgines
...and my own, in a crisis of uncommon and adequate emergency, or in an occasion of dangerous example. " I have ever deemed it even more unsafe^ than dishonourable...maturity, and for their open effect, to repel it." It appeared difficult to arrive at any correct conclusion from the general reasoning of Mr. Hastings,... | |
 | Sir Alfred C. Lyall - 1894 - 274 pàgines
...and my own in a crisis of uncommon and adequate emergency, or in an occasion of dangerous example." " I have ever deemed it even more unsafe than dishonourable...than to see preparations of intended hostility, and to wait for their maturity, and for their open effect to repel it. The faith of treaties I have ever... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - 1910 - 372 pàgines
...and my own, in a crisis of uncommon and adequate emergency, or in an occasion of dangerous example. I have ever deemed it even more unsafe than dishonourable...their maturity, and for their open effect to repel it. The faith of treaties I have ever held inviolate. Of this I have given the most ample and public testimonies... | |
 | Ramsay Muir - 1915 - 440 pàgines
...and my own, in a crisis of uncommon and adequate emergency, or in an occasion of dangerous example. I have ever deemed it even more unsafe than dishonourable...of intended hostility, and wait for their maturity ... to repel it. The faith of treaties I have ever held inviolate. Of this I have given the most ample... | |
 | 1918 - 580 pàgines
...scale of operations must be considered. In the course of a review of his stewardship Hastings wrote : " I have ever deemed it even more unsafe than dishonourable...than to see preparations of intended hostility and to wait for their maturity and for their open effect to repel it." (3) Although Macaulay states it... | |
 | Mia Carter, Barbara Harlow - 2003 - 836 pàgines
...and my own, in a crisis of uncommon and adequate emergency, or in an occasion of dangerous example. I have ever deemed it even more unsafe than dishonourable...their maturity, and for their open effect to repel it. The faith of treaties I have ever held inviolate. Of this I have given the most ample and public testimonies... | |
 | 1919 - 280 pàgines
...scale of operations must be considered. In the course of a review of his stewardship Hastings wrote: "I have ever deemed it even more unsafe than dishonourable...than to see preparations of intended hostility and to wait for their maturity and for their open effect to repel it." (3) Although Macaulay states it... | |
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... repel, with a moral assurance of success proportioned to the magnitude of either; and I can allude to instances in which I should have deemed it criminal not to have hazarded both the public safety and my own, in a crisis of uncommon and adequate... 