Since the capture of Kandy in 1815 there have been three rebellious uprisings of the natives, the last of which occurred in 1847, which the English officials stamped out with such rigor, not to say cruelty, that it has so far proved the last attempt of the sort.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
How marvellous, the Friends are protected; and the Baptists, under the same government, are persecuted with increasing rigor!
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley
If at last he broke down under a burden of conscience, it was a burden imposed by the reality of human nature which makes it impossible for any man to live up to intentions of such rigor as Tolstoy's.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller