The History of British India, Том 3Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row., 1817 |
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... frightfully enormous , amounted to 64,2021 . See Burke's Charges , No. 16 , sect . 89 . † See the letter to Major Palmer , quoted in the preceding page . 1785 . Shah Aulum . BOOK VI . died Nujeef HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA . 7.
... frightfully enormous , amounted to 64,2021 . See Burke's Charges , No. 16 , sect . 89 . † See the letter to Major Palmer , quoted in the preceding page . 1785 . Shah Aulum . BOOK VI . died Nujeef HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA . 7.
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... Burke , however , affirms , with a strength which the circumstances will not warrant , that the pretended desire of Mr. Hastings to free the Emperor from thraldom under the Delhi chiefs , was not his real design , because not consistent ...
... Burke , however , affirms , with a strength which the circumstances will not warrant , that the pretended desire of Mr. Hastings to free the Emperor from thraldom under the Delhi chiefs , was not his real design , because not consistent ...
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... Burke delivered that celebrated speech , which he after- wards published , under the title of " Mr. Burke's Speech , on the Motion made for Papers relative to the Directions for charging the Nabob of Arcot's Private Debts to Europeans ...
... Burke delivered that celebrated speech , which he after- wards published , under the title of " Mr. Burke's Speech , on the Motion made for Papers relative to the Directions for charging the Nabob of Arcot's Private Debts to Europeans ...
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... Burke took a very extensive view of the Indian policy of the ministers . The motive of The most curious and important part of his speech , and that is important indeed , corrupt parlia is the part where he undertakes to show what was ...
... Burke took a very extensive view of the Indian policy of the ministers . The motive of The most curious and important part of his speech , and that is important indeed , corrupt parlia is the part where he undertakes to show what was ...
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... Burke , " not possible for the minister to consult personally with this great man . What then was he to do ? Through a sagacity that never failed him in these pursuits , he found out in Mr. Benfield's representative his exact ...
... Burke , " not possible for the minister to consult personally with this great man . What then was he to do ? Through a sagacity that never failed him in these pursuits , he found out in Mr. Benfield's representative his exact ...
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Страница 16 - ... therefore no sooner elected than he set off for Madras, and defrauded the longing eyes of Parliament. We have never enjoyed in this House the luxury of beholding that minion of the human race, and contemplating that visage which has so long reflected the happiness of nations. It was therefore not possible for the minister to consult personally with this great man. What, then, was he to do ? Through a sagacity that never failed him in these pursuits, he found out, in Mr. Benfield's representative,...
Страница 27 - Bombay, having in sundry instances acted in a manner repugnant to the honour and policy of this nation...
Страница 421 - Mauritius, from whence forty persons, French, and of a dark colour, of whom ten or twelve were artificers, and the rest servants, paying the hire of the ship, came here in search of employment. Such as chose to take service were entertained, and the remainder departed beyond the confines of this...
Страница 126 - I maintained the wars which were of your formation, or that of others, not of mine. I won one member f of the great Indian Confederacy from it by an act of seasonable restitution ; with another \ I maintained a secret intercourse, and converted him into a friend ; a third \ I drew off by diversion and negotiation, and employed him as the instrument of peace.
Страница 126 - I dare to reply that they are, and their representatives annually persist in telling them so, the most flourishing of all the states of India — It was I who made them so. The valour of others acquired, I enlarged, and gave shape and consistency to the dominion which you hold there : I preserved it...
Страница 346 - ... are not very scrupulous adherents to truth ; yet I do not say that they deliberately speak studied falsehood, or have a settled purpose to deceive. They have inquired and considered little, and do not always feel their own ignorance. They are not much accustomed to be interrogated by others ; and seem never to have thought upon interrogating themselves ; so that if they do not know what they tell to be true, they likewise do not distinctly perceive it to be false.
Страница 27 - Forasmuch as to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of this nation...
Страница 435 - I will go (said he) and drag him to the breach, and make him see by what a set of wretches he is surrounded; I will compel him to exert himself at this last moment." He was going, and met a party of pioneers, whom he had long looked for in vain, to cut off the approach by the southern rampart, " I must first (said he) shew these people the work they have to do," and in the act of giving his instructions, was killed by a cannon shot.
Страница 275 - The generous resolution was adopted, of sacrificing to the improvement of the country, the proprietary rights of the sovereign. The motives to improvement which property gives, and of which the power was so justly appreciated, might have been bestowed upon those upon whom they would have operated with a force incomparably greater than that with which they could operate upon any other class of men : they might have been bestowed upon those from whom alone, in every country, the principal improvements...
Страница 16 - Paul Benfield is the grand parliamentary reformer, the reformer to whom the whole choir of reformers bow, and to whom even the right honourable gentleman himself must yield the palm : for what region in the empire, what city, what borough, what county, what tribunal, in this kingdom, is not full of his labours?