 | Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - 1812 - 612 pages
...minds ill brooked an usurpation which they deemed subversive of the constitution of their commonwealth. His army is now more numerous than it was, but it is composed of materials that have no natural cohesion, and the first serious check which it meets will probably cause its dissolution.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1823 - 854 pages
...minds ill-brooked an usurpation which they deemed subversive of the constitution of their commonwealth. His army is now more numerous 'than it was, but it...which have no natural cohesion, and the first serious check which it meets, will probably cause its dissolution. There is no branch of this sketch which... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 pages
...minds ill-brooked a usurpation which they deemed subversive of the constitution of their commonwealth. His army is now more numerous than it was, but it' is composed of materials that have no natural cohesion, and the lu si serious check which it meets will probably cause its dissolution.... | |
 | 1846 - 238 pages
...minds ill brooked an usurpation which they deemed subversive of the constitution of their commonwealth. His army is now more numerous than it was. but it...which have no natural cohesion; and the first serious check which it meets, will probably cause its dissolution. There is no branch of this sketch which... | |
 | George De Lacy Evans - 2004 - 228 pages
...prince of this latter country, has also wrested their finest province from the Afghauns — Cashmere, with its commercial capital of nearly two hundred...states intervening between the Indus and lower Oxus) combined — it could probably make but a sorry fight of it, against so few even as half a dozen Muscovite... | |
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Singh did not, in 1805, amount to eight thousand; and part of that was under chiefs who had been subdued from a state of independence, and whose turbulent minds ill brooked an usurpation which they deemed subversive of the constitution of their commonwealth.... 