The History of British India, Том 2Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817 - 777 страници |
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... person . He well knew that if he demanded him with firmness , they would have all consented to his confinement in an English fort . And , if he did not know , it is not the less true , that in the hands of the English he might have ...
... person . He well knew that if he demanded him with firmness , they would have all consented to his confinement in an English fort . And , if he did not know , it is not the less true , that in the hands of the English he might have ...
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... person conversant with the affairs and interests of the two nations in India , while it was conducted , on the part ... persons highly competent to contradict it , and for which an appeal is made to the Journal of Duvelaer ) is not ...
... person conversant with the affairs and interests of the two nations in India , while it was conducted , on the part ... persons highly competent to contradict it , and for which an appeal is made to the Journal of Duvelaer ) is not ...
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... person , and was hardy enough to venture a battle ; but the Afghaun troops in his service were discontented with some recent treatment , and were inclined to make their advantage of his necessities . They acted coldly and feebly during ...
... person , and was hardy enough to venture a battle ; but the Afghaun troops in his service were discontented with some recent treatment , and were inclined to make their advantage of his necessities . They acted coldly and feebly during ...
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... persons employed in the work of defence should escape in the same manner the following night . There was hardly a chance of ... person imagined he was to shift for himself , and hurried on board by the readiest conveyance : During this ...
... persons employed in the work of defence should escape in the same manner the following night . There was hardly a chance of ... person imagined he was to shift for himself , and hurried on board by the readiest conveyance : During this ...
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... person could long survive such a situation . It was the most horrible place he ever saw , take it altogether . " The other witness said , " It is divided into small apartments , and those very bad ; the stench dreadful , and more ...
... person could long survive such a situation . It was the most horrible place he ever saw , take it altogether . " The other witness said , " It is divided into small apartments , and those very bad ; the stench dreadful , and more ...
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Страница 311 - It was an innovation by which the whole property of the country, and along with it the administration of justice, were placed upon a new foundation...
Страница 238 - ... the vast fortunes acquired in the inland trade have been obtained by a scene of the most tyrannic and oppressive conduct that ever was known in any age or country.
Страница 237 - Upon my arrival, I am sorry to say, I found your affairs in a condition so nearly desperate as would have alarmed any set of men whose sense of honour and duty to their employers had not been estranged by the too eager pursuit of their own immediate advantages.
Страница 310 - to stand forth as Diwan and by the agency of the Company's servants to take upon themselves the entire care and management of the revenues."!
Страница 258 - Under the Sanction of a Soubah every encroachment that may be attempted by Foreign Powers can effectually be crushed without any apparent Interposition of our own Authority ; and all real Grievances complained of by them, can, through the same channel, be examined into and redressed. Be it therefore always remembered that there is a...
Страница 304 - That all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign princes, did of right belong to the state. " 2. That to appropriate acquisitions so made to the private emolument of persons intrusted with any civil or military power of the state is illegal.
Страница 99 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Страница 4 - Company has been an oligarchy, in fact. So far from meddling too much, the Court of Proprietors have not attended to the common affairs even sufficiently for the business of inspection: And the known principles of human nature abundantly secured that unfortunate result. To watch, to scrutinize, to inquire, is labour, and labour is pain. To confide, to take for granted that all is well, is easy, is exempt from labour, and, to the great mass of mankind, comparatively delightful. On all ordinary occasions,...
Страница 240 - To go farther, is in my opinion, a scheme so extravagantly ambitious and absurd, that no Governor and Council in their senses can ever adopt it, unless the whole system of the Company's interest be first entirely new modelled.
Страница 216 - Your deliberations on the inland trade have laid open to us a scene of most cruel oppression; the poor of the country, who used always to deal in salt, beetlenut, and tobacco, are now deprived of their daily bread by the trade of the Europeans.