The Founders of the Indian Empire: Clive, Warren Hastings, and Wellesley. Lord Clive, Том 1W. H. Allen, 1882 - 516 страници |
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Страница 493 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Страница 471 - English money, of 234,000/. ; and that, in so doing, the said Robert Lord Clive abused the power with which he was intrusted, to the evil example of the servants of the public, and to the dishonour and detriment of the State.
Страница 383 - He received the proposal of having a sum of money for "himself and his household at his will with infinite " pleasure, and the only reflection he made upon leaving " me was : ' Thank God ! I shall now have as many " ' dancing girls as I please ! ' "f The sagacious views of Clive, on the contrary, went far beyond his treaty or his time.
Страница 387 - The perpetual struggles for superiority between the Nabobs and your Agents, together with the recent proofs before us of notorious and avowed corruption, have rendered us unanimously of opinion, after the most mature deliberation, that no other method can be suggested of laying the axe to the root of all those evils, than that of obtaining the Dewanny of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa, for the Company.
Страница 470 - I can call my own, except my paternal fortune of 500/. a year ; and which has been in the family for ages past. But upon this I am content to live ; and perhaps I shall find more real content of mind and happiness, than in the trembling affluence of an unsettled fortune.
Страница 470 - But to be called upon, after sixteen years have elapsed, to account for my conduct in this manner, and, after an uninterrupted enjoyment of my property, to be questioned, and considered as obtaining it unwarrantably, is hard indeed ! and a treatment I should not think the British Senate capable of.
Страница 456 - Commons for leave to bring in a bill " for the better regulation of the affairs of the East India Company and of their servants in India, and for the due administration of justice in Bengal.
Страница 375 - His being a Mussulman, acute, and clever, are reasons of themselves, if there were no others, against trusting that man with too much power...
Страница 468 - Robert Lord Clive, Baron of Plassey in the kingdom of Ireland, about the time of the deposition of...
Страница 466 - That to appropriate acquisitions so made to the private emolument of persons intrusted with any civil or military power of the State is illegal. 3. That very great sums of money, and other valuable property have been acquired in Bengal from Princes and others of that country, by persons entrusted with the military and civil powers of the State by means of such powers ; which sums of money and valuable property have been appropriated to the private use of such persons.