 | 1840 - 824 страници
...since the declaration ' of the legislature, in 1784, that to pursue schemes of conquest ' and extension of dominion are measures repugnant to the wish, * the honour, and the policy of the nation. Lord Cornwallis ' arrived in India in 1786, with this declaration ringing in his ' ears,... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 894 страници
...having a"*0*'" Io" been declared that " to pursue schemes of conquest or extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of the nation." But this declaration, in appearance so just and practicable, differed widely from the... | |
 | Andrew Sterling - 1846 - 480 страници
...declaration made by the Legislature in 1782, that schemes of conquest and extent of dominion in India, are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of the British nation ; they have ever since been so eagerly and successfully pursued, that our dominions... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1848 - 568 страници
...enacted — " That forasmuch as to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India arc measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of this nation, it shall not ho lawful, either for the Governor General of India, or for the governor of any presidency,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1849 - 518 страници
...expressly declared in it, that " 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." Notwithstanding of all this repugnance to an extension of our power in the East, our movement has been... | |
 | William Clarkson - 1851 - 370 страници
...in 1793, expressly declared, "That 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 ;" and yet schemes were pursued, battles were fought, and victories were won. Thus the conquest of... | |
 | 1851 - 636 страници
...declaration embodied in it — " That to pursue schemes of conquest, and extension of dominion in India, are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of the nation." English aggressions upon the native powers, were, indeed, scarcely to be expected. The... | |
 | Charles James Fox - 1853 - 900 страници
...the native princes, that to commence hostilities without just provocation against them, and to punrae schemes of conquest and extent of dominion, are measures...Parliament of Great Britain should give some signal marks of its displeasure against those, in whatever degree entrusted with the charge of the East India... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - 1853 - 80 страници
...embodied in this emphatic language, " to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of the nation." What terms could more clearly exhibit the national determination to resist the expansion... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 534 страници
...motion of Sir Philip Francis, " that to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of Britain." In 1808 he zealously opposed the measure for deposing the nabobs of the Carnatic, declaring... | |
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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... 
