The Building of the British Empire: 1689-1895G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1898 |
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The Building of the British Empire: 1689-1895 Alfred Thomas Story Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1898 |
The Building of the British Empire: 1689-1895 Alfred Thomas Story Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1898 |
The Building of the British Empire: 1689-1895 Alfred Thomas Story Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1898 |
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Admiral affairs Africa American appointed army arrived Assembly attack Australia battle Bengal Boston Britain British brought Calcutta Cape Cape Colony Captain carried charter chief civilisation Clive coast Colonel colonies colonists command commenced Company Company's Council Crown defeat dominions Duplaix Dutch East India effect Empire enemy England English enormous established expedition favour fleet followed force Fort St France French George gold Government Governor hundred Hyder Ali important India islands Jaffier King land Lord Lord North Madras Mahratta matter ment miles month nation natives Niger North officers Omichund Parliament peace Peshwa Pondicherry population Port possession province reign resolutions river sail sent settlement settlers ships Sindhia soon South Australia South Wales squadron square miles Subahdar Surajah taken Tasmania territory thousand tion Tippoo Tippoo Sultan town trade treaty Trichinopoly troops vessels victory Warren Hastings Wellesley Zealand
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Sida 372 - But at any rate, our first duty is to secure the well-being of our colonial countrymen ; and if in the hidden decrees of that wisdom by which this world is ruled, it is written that these countries are not for ever to remain portions of the Empire, we owe it to our honour to take good care that, when they separate from us, they should not be the only countries on the American continent in which the Anglo-Saxon race shall be found unfit to...
Sida 163 - Indies, till the act be repealed, the same will prove the salvation of North America and her liberties ; and that the impolicy, injustice, inhumanity, and cruelty of the act exceed all our powers of expression ; we, therefore, leave it to the just censure of others, and appeal to God and the world.
Sida 345 - Land, what opportunities of settling themselves in New Zealand are afforded them by the extensive intercourse which has recently been established, adverting also to the conduct which has been pursued in those islands by the masters and crews of British vessels, and finding from the letter of the Rev.
Sida 344 - I fear, be shortly added to the number of those barbarous tribes who, in different parts of the globe, have fallen a sacrifice to their intercourse with civilized men, who bear and disgrace the name of Christians. When, for mercenary purposes, the natives of Europe minister to the passions by which these savages are inflamed against each other, and introduce them to the knowledge of depraved acts and licentious gratifications of the most debased inhabitants of our great cities, the inevitable consequence...
Sida 168 - ... as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances cannot properly be represented in the British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity...
Sida 100 - ... warfare that an admiring world admitted the claim of Great Britain to the glory of conquering a people less from views of ambition, and the security of her other colonies, than from the hope of improving their situation, and endowing them with the privileges of...
Sida 344 - It is impossible to read, without shame and indignation, the details which these documents disclose. The unfortunate natives of New Zealand, unless some decisive measures of prevention be adopted, will, I fear, be shortly added to the number of those barbarous tribes who, in different parts of the globe, have fallen a sacrifice to their intercourse with civilized men, who bear and disgrace the name of Christians.
Sida 348 - ... deliberate, in concert. But the admission of their rights, though inevitably qualified by this consideration, is binding on the faith of the British crown. The Queen, in common with her Majesty's immediate predecessor, disclaims, for herself and for her subjects, every pretension to seize on the islands of New Zealand, or to govern them as a part of the dominion of Great Britain, unless the free and intelligent consent of the natives, expressed according to their established usages, shall be...
Sida 387 - Governor, and of an elective House of Representatives. The first session of the General Assembly was opened on the 27th May, 1854, but the members of the Executive were not responsible to Parliament. The first Ministers under a system of Responsible Government were appointed on the 18th April, 1856.
Sida 174 - an act to restrain the trade and commerce of the provinces of Massachusetts Bay, and New Hampshire, and colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Providence plantation, in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British islands in the West Indies ; and to prohibit such provinces and colonies from carrying on any fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland, and other places therein mentioned, under certain conditions and limitations.