 | 1855 - 620 pages
...subjects ; but how unworthy it would be of a liberal government to give weight to such objections. The world is governed by an irresistible Power, —...which giveth and taketh away dominion, and vain would bo the impotent prudence of men against the operations of its Almighty influence. All that rulers cau... | |
 | Charles Theophilus Metcalfe Baron Metcalfe, Sir John William Kaye - 1854 - 542 pages
...native subjects; but how unworthy it would be of a liberal Government to give weight to such objections. The world is governed by an irresistible Power, which...gratitude of India and the admiration of the world will accompany our name throughout all ages, whatever may be the revolutions of Futurity; but if we... | |
 | India - 1855 - 462 pages
...subjects ; but how unworthy it would be of a liberal Government to give weight to such objections. The world is governed by an irresistible Power, which...gratitude of India and the admiration of the world will accompany our name through all ages, whatever may be the revolutions of futurity ; but if we withhold... | |
 | Henry Taylor - Canada - 1858 - 132 pages
...subjects ; but how unworthy it would be of a liberal government to give weight to such objections. The world is governed by an irresistible Power, —...rulers can do is to merit dominion by promoting the happ,ness of those under them. If we perform our duty in this respect, the gratitude of India and the... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - Europe - 1871 - 312 pages
...dangerous to ourselves? I cannot answer that objection better than in the words of Lord Metcalfe : " The world is governed by an irresistible Power which...gratitude of India and the admiration of the world will accompany our name through all ages, whatever may be the revolutions of futurity ; but, if we... | |
 | John Murdoch - Education - 1873 - 122 pages
...irresistible power which giveth and fuketh away dominion, and vain would be the impotent prudence of man against the operations of its Almighty influence. All that rulers can do ia to merit dominion by promoting the happiness of those under them. If we perform our duty in this... | |
 | Great Britain - 1875 - 1036 pages
...Lord Metcalfe, which I once quoted before iii speaking of India, but which is worth repeating : — " The world is governed by an irresistible Power, which...the operations of its almighty influence. All that miens can do is to merit dominion by promoting the happiness of those under them. If we jjerform our... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - India - 1876 - 314 pages
...Lord Metcalfe, which I once quoted before in speaking of India, but which is worth repeating : — "The world is governed by an irresistible Power, which...gratitude of India and the admiration of the world will accompany our name through all ages, whatever may be the revolutions of futurity ; but if we withhold... | |
 | Henry Morris - Anglo-Indians - 1890 - 172 pages
...he walked humbly with his God." LORD METCALFE. LORD METCALFE: THE LIBERATOR OF THE INDIAN PRESS. " All that rulers can do is to merit dominion by promoting the happiness of those under them." CHARLES THEOPHILUS METCALFE was born at Calcutta on January 30, 1785. He was the second son of an officer... | |
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All that rulers can do is to merit dominion, by promoting the happiness of those under them. If we perform our duty in this respect, the gratitude of India and the admiration of the world will accompany our name through all ages, whatever may be the revolutions... 
