 | Henry Morse Stephens - Goa (India : State) - 1892 - 228 pages
...Albuquerque to the heart. ' He lifted up his hands and gave thanks unto Our Lord and cried : — " In bad repute with men because of the King, and in...King because of the men, it were well that I were gone V ' This harsh measure of supersession had undoubtedly been suggested to King Emmanuel by the... | |
 | Frederick Charles Danvers - India - 1894 - 654 pages
...stead, he saw how his enemies were in favour with the King, and, lifting up his hands, he exclaimed, " In bad repute with men because of the King, and in bad repute with the King because of men. It were well that I were gone." Amongst the letters taken from the Moorish boat was one to Ormuz,... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - India - 1899 - 500 pages
...repute with men because of the King,' he had exclaimed when he heard of the arrival of his successor, ' and in bad repute with the King because of the men, it were 1 For the last pathetic scene, read the Commentaries, vol. iv. pp. 195 196. well that I were gone.'... | |
 | Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - India - 1906 - 396 pages
...repute with men because of the king," he had exclaimed when he heard of the arrival of his successor, " and in bad repute with the king because of the men, it were well that I were gone." No public statue of him exists in Lisbon, so far as I could find. Half a century elapsed after... | |
 | Albert Galloway Keller - Colonization - 1908 - 670 pages
...de ravitaillement, d^fendus par des fortresses, qui constitua les c^lebres possessions portugaises." the King because of the men, it were well that I were gone." He had lived a life of toil and self-denial, had never been viceroy, was superseded as governor,... | |
 | Kingsley Garland Jayne - Discoveries in geography - 1910 - 438 pages
...Captain of Cochin. At this tidings, " He lifted up his hands, and gave thanks to Our Lord, and cried : ' In bad repute with men because of the King, and in...King because of the men. It were well that I were gone.' " l Soon afterwards he dictated a last letter to King Manoel : — " Sire, I do not write to... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - Great Britain - 1911 - 326 pages
...lingers dimly to this day. Some indication of the change can be seen in Albuquerque's dying words. ' In bad repute with men because of the king, and in...king because of the men, it were well that I were gone,' he cried in 1515 ; ' I have finished all my troubles without seeing any satisfaction of them.'... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - United States - 1912 - 298 pages
...lingers dimly to this day. Some indication of the change can be seen in Albuquerque's dying words. ' In bad repute with men because of the king, and in...king because of the men, it were well that I were gone,' he cried in 1515 ; ' I have finished all my troubles without seeing any satisfaction of them.'... | |
 | Abdullah Yusuf Ali - Great Britain - 1925 - 386 pages
...Portugal's jealousy of his power. He just received the orders about his supersession before he died. Among his last words were: " In bad repute with men because...King because of the men, it were well that I were gone." Causes of Portuguese Decline. — Albuquerque was a strong man; but his policy, though immediately... | |
 | Herbert Henry Gowen - Asia - 1926 - 504 pages
...the Indian Ocean a Christian rather than a Moslem highway. But he was superseded at last, and said: "In bad repute with men because of the king, and in bad repute with the king because of men, it were well that I were gone." Nevertheless, "giving many thanks unto the Lord," he died not... | |
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In bad repute with men because of the king, and in bad repute with the king because of the men. It were well that I were gone. 
