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" I would sacrifice Gwalior, or every frontier of India, ten times over, in order to preserve our credit for scrupulous good faith, and the advantages and honour we gained by the late war and the peace ; and we must not fritter them away in arguments, drawn... "
Selections from the Dispatches and General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke ... - Page 157
by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1851 - 939 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 58

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 - 1837 - 602 pages
...ambition of other governments." — vol. iii. p. 440. * I would sacrifice Gwalior, or every frontier in India ten times over, in order to preserve our credit...for scrupulous good faith, and the advantages and honour we gained by the late war and the peace ; and we must not fritter them away in arguments, drawn...
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The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal ..., Volume 10

1840 - 974 pages
...question, it is fully canvassed in the inclosed letter. I would sacrifice Gwalior, or every frontier in India, ten times over, in order to preserve our credit...for scrupulous good faith, and the advantages and honour we gained by the late war and the peace ; and we must not fritter them away in arguments drawn...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 58

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 - 1837 - 628 pages
...governments.' — vol. iii. p. 440. • I would sacrifice Gwalior, or every frontier in India ten times -r, in order to preserve our credit for scrupulous good faith, and the Aio Aa rages stud honour we gained by the late war and the peace; and He must uiit fritter them away...
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The Military Life of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K.G. &c ...

Basil Jackson, Charles Rochfort Scott - Great Britain - 1840 - 546 pages
...over, in order to preserve our credit for scrupuar' ' lous good faith, and the advantages and honour we gained by the late war and the peace ; and we must...arguments, drawn from overstrained principles of the law of nations, which are not understood in this country. What brought me through many difficulties...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany

Asia - 1844 - 688 pages
...objeuts, are not to be compared to the importance of preserving the national faith > (Hear, hear!} I would sacrifice Gwalior, or every frontier of India,...preserve our credit for scrupulous good faith, and the ndvantages and honour we gained by the late war and the peace ; and we must not fritter them in arguments,...
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Campaign in Scinde and treatment of the Ameers

James Outram - Sind - 1846 - 256 pages
...the 15th of March 1804,—" I would sacrifice Gwalior, or every position in India, ten times over, to preserve our credit for scrupulous good faith, and the advantages and honour we gained by the late war and peace ; and we must not fritter them away in arguments drawn from...
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The British Friend of India Magazine, and Indian Review, Volume 6

Great Britain - 342 pages
...conceived to he an undue extension of an article in a treaty which he had concluded with Scindia, he said " I would sacrifice Gwalior, or every frontier of India,...in order to preserve our credit for scrupulous good Jailh." Shortly afterwards, he asks, " What brought me through many difficulties in the war, and the...
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Essays, political, historical and miscellaneous, Volume 3

sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...India, ten times over, to preserve our credit for scrupulous good faith, and the advantages and honour we gained by the late war and the peace; and we must...arguments drawn from overstrained principles of the law of nations, which are not understood in this country. What brought me through the many difficulties...
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Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Volume 3

Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 746 pages
...India, ten times over, to preserve oar credit for scrupulous good faith, and the advantages and honour we gained by the late war and the peace ; and we must...arguments drawn from overstrained principles of the law of nations, which are not understood in this country. What brought me through the many difficulties...
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Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Volume 3

Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 744 pages
...Europe in war and devastation.* " I would sacrifice Gwalior, or every portion of India, ten times over, to preserve our credit for scrupulous good faith, and the advantages and honour we gained by the late war and the peace ; and we must not fritter them away in arguments drawn...
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