 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1875 - 1082 pages
...Emperor's real pacific tendencies, in spite even of our remonstrances, and possibly our threats, Kussia will continue to push on towards India until arrested by a barrier which she cannot remove or overstep. If this programme be correct, it means, of course, contact and collision,... | |
 | Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Sir Henry Rawlinson - 1875 - 492 pages
...but who have watched the progress of events, and have been more or less admitted behind the scenes, that the continued advance of Russia in Central Asia...is as certain as the succession of day and night. Whether it be from a natural law of increase, or from the preponderating weight of the military classes,... | |
 | sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (1st bart.) - 1875 - 524 pages
...but who have watehed the progress of events, and have been more or less admitted behind the scenes, that the continued advance of Russia in Central Asia...is as certain as the succession of day and night. Whether it be from a natural law of increase, or from the preponderating weight of the military classes,... | |
 | Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson - 1875 - 442 pages
...but who have watched the progress of events, and have been more or less admitted behind the scenes, that the continued advance of Russia in Central Asia is as certain as the movement of the sun in the heavens. Whether it be from a natural law of increase, or from the preponderating... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1879 - 626 pages
...provocation—then the position would be entirely altered, Afghanistan would be directly threatened. " That the continued advance of Russia in Central Asia...the succession of day and night Russia will continue " The (Afghan) nation consists of a mere collection of tribes of unequal power and divergent habits.... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 558 pages
...who have watched the progress of events, and who have been more or less admitted behind the scenes, that the continued advance of Russia in Central Asia...is as certain as the succession of day and night, whether it be from a natural law of increase, or from the preponderating weight of the military classes,... | |
 | Jimmie E. Cain, Jr. - 2006 - 216 pages
...prejudice, but who have, watched the progress of events, and have been more or less behind the scenes, that the continued advance of Russia in Central Asia is as certain as the movement of the sun in the heavens [339]. One of these "sagacious foreign observers" was none other... | |
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... experience, which, as we are interested parties, might be supposed to incline rather to the side of suspicion, we have further been assured by sagacious foreign observers, free from all national prejudice, but who have watched the progress of events,... 