The History of British India, Том 1J. Madden, 1840 |
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... servants of the East India Company , which are unpropitious to the developement and cultivation of the talent and knowledge requisite to constitute a historian of India ; but , although these circumstances may coun- terbalance , in the ...
... servants of the East India Company , which are unpropitious to the developement and cultivation of the talent and knowledge requisite to constitute a historian of India ; but , although these circumstances may coun- terbalance , in the ...
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... servants , either in their commercial or political con- nexion with India , it has been occasionally attempted to demonstrate their unsoundness , their inapplicabi- lity , or their injustice . Of the proofs which may be discovered in Mr ...
... servants , either in their commercial or political con- nexion with India , it has been occasionally attempted to demonstrate their unsoundness , their inapplicabi- lity , or their injustice . Of the proofs which may be discovered in Mr ...
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... servants , and with the constituted au- thorities in England ; a portion of materials , inesti- mable in its value ; but so appalling by its magni- tude , that many years appeared to be inadequate to render the mind familiar with it ...
... servants , and with the constituted au- thorities in England ; a portion of materials , inesti- mable in its value ; but so appalling by its magni- tude , that many years appeared to be inadequate to render the mind familiar with it ...
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... servants , may justly be enumerated the candour with which they them- selves confess the necessity under which they are laid , of remaining to a great degree ignorant of India . That they go out to their appointments at a time of life ...
... servants , may justly be enumerated the candour with which they them- selves confess the necessity under which they are laid , of remaining to a great degree ignorant of India . That they go out to their appointments at a time of life ...
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... servant of the Company , Sir Henry House of Commons , on the Affairs of the East India Company , in 1810 . This passage the Committee have thought of sufficient importance to be incorporated in their Report . 1 Observations of Lord ...
... servant of the Company , Sir Henry House of Commons , on the Affairs of the East India Company , in 1810 . This passage the Committee have thought of sufficient importance to be incorporated in their Report . 1 Observations of Lord ...
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Страница 214 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury...
Страница 447 - ... then the sole self-existing power, himself undiscerned, but making this world discernible, with five elements and other principles of nature, appeared with undiminished glory, expanding his idea, or dispelling the gloom. He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person.
Страница 317 - In seven days from the present time, O thou tamer of enemies, the three worlds will be plunged in an ocean of death, but in the midst of the destroying waves, a large vessel, sent by me for thy use shall stand before thee.
Страница 286 - Under this simple form of municipal government, the inhabitants of the country have lived from time immemorial. The boundaries of the villages have been but seldom altered ; and though the villages themselves have been sometimes injured and even desolated by war, famine and disease, the same name, the same limits, the same interests and even the same families, have continued for ages. The inhabitants...
Страница 286 - The inhabitants give themselves no trouble about the breaking up and division of kingdoms. While the village remains entire, they care not to what power it is transferred, or to what sovereign it devolves. Its internal economy remains unchanged.
Страница 276 - Neque quisquam agri modum certum aut fines habet proprios ; sed magistratus ac principes in annos singulos gentibus cognationibusque hominum , qui una coierunt , quantum et quo loco visum est agri adtribuunt atque anno post alio transire cogunt.
Страница 346 - We must not be surprised," he says, " at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern Varanes [Benares] mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways and by a multitude of fanciful names.
Страница 127 - England, which were a heap of nonsense, compiled by a few ignorant country gentlemen, who hardly knew how to make laws for the good government of their own private families, much less for the regulating of Companies and foreign commerce.
Страница 402 - BY a girl, or by a young woman, or by a woman advanced in years, nothing must be done, even in her own dwelling place, according to her mere pleasure : 148.
Страница 480 - But if a good system of agriculture, unrivalled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing and arithmetic, the general practice of hospitality and charity amongst each other, and, above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a civilized people — then the Hindus are not inferior to the nations of Europe;...