 | William Francis Patrick Napier - India - 1845 - 234 pages
...would hold all the Ameers responsible, and would not be played off like a shuttlecock, and told thin was done by one Ameer, that by another, and so have...week's inquiry to find out who was responsible for aggression ; for I at once saw, on arriving at Scinde, that this hide and seek, shifting responsibility,... | |
 | Edward Thornton - India - 1845 - 574 pages
...when there was a breach of treaty, whether great or small, I would hold all the Ameers responsible, and would not be played off like a shuttlecock, and told, this was done by one Ameer, and that by another, and have a week's inquiry to find out whom I was to hold responsible for aggression... | |
 | James Outram - Sind - 1846 - 336 pages
...when there was a breach of treaty, whether great or small, I would hold ALL the Ameers responsible, and would not be played off like a shuttlecock, and...find out who was responsible for the aggression." It may be observed, then, in the outset, that the principle, according to which Sir Charles Napier... | |
 | Mohana Lāla (Munshi) - Afghanistan - 1846 - 568 pages
...that when there was a breach of treaty, whether great or small, I would hold all the Mirs responsible, and would not be played off like a shuttlecock, and told this was done by one Mir, and that by another, and have a week's inquiry to find out whom I was to hold responsible for... | |
 | India - 1847 - 1262 pages
...resolved when there was a breach of treaty, whether great or small, I would holdall the Amirs responsible, and would not be played off like a shuttle-cock, and told this was done by one Amir, that by another, and so have a week's enquiry to find out who was responsible for the aggression."... | |
 | India - 1847 - 632 pages
...when there was a breacli of treaty, whether great or small, I would holdall the Amirs responsible, and would not be played off like a shuttle-cock, and told this was done by ono Amir, tlutt by another, and so have a week's enquiry to find out who was responsible for the aggression."... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1852 - 592 pages
...Ameers responsible for the breach of faith which he he conceived the letters to establish ; for he ' would not be played off like a shuttlecock, and told,...find out who was responsible for the aggression.' He began with Meer Roostum, the Khyrpoor chief, an old man of eighty-five, of whose amiable disposition... | |
 | William Joseph Eastwick - 1862 - 168 pages
...second-hand. His own idea of the observance of treaties may be gathered from his announcement that " he would not be played off like a shuttlecock ;" and told this was done by that Ameer, and that by another, and have a week's inquiry to find out who was responsible for an act... | |
 | 1852 - 330 pages
...the Ameers responsible for the breach of faith which he conceived the letters to establish ; for he ' would not be played off like a shuttlecock, and told,...find out who was responsible for the aggression.' He began with Meer Roostum, the Khyrpoor chief, an old man of eighty -five, of whose amiable disposition... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1852 - 590 pages
...the Ameers responsible for the breach of faith which he conceived the letters to establish ; for he ' would not be played off like a shuttlecock, and told,...find out who was responsible for the aggression.' He began with Meer Roostum, the Khyrpoor chief, an old man of eighty-five, of whose amiable disposition... | |
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I was determined that when there was a breach of treaty, whether great or small, I would hold all the Ameers responsible... 
