The History of British India, Volym 3Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row., 1817 |
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... answer ; that it was not written in his hand , nor signed by him ; and that it referred to transactions before he was in the Company's service . " Lord Pigot regarded this answer as not only evasive , but a satisfactory proof that Mr ...
... answer ; that it was not written in his hand , nor signed by him ; and that it referred to transactions before he was in the Company's service . " Lord Pigot regarded this answer as not only evasive , but a satisfactory proof that Mr ...
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... answer to the charge on this subject , Mr. Hastings condescends to yield . When urging upon the Directors his wishes for sending troops to the assistance of the Mogul , he had indeed held a language , contradictory both to his former ...
... answer to the charge on this subject , Mr. Hastings condescends to yield . When urging upon the Directors his wishes for sending troops to the assistance of the Mogul , he had indeed held a language , contradictory both to his former ...
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... answer to an attack by Mr. Fox , upon the inconsistency of appointing that nobleman to the chief station in the Indian government , almost at the very moment when his principal measure had been reversed , Mr. Pitt had been called forth ...
... answer to an attack by Mr. Fox , upon the inconsistency of appointing that nobleman to the chief station in the Indian government , almost at the very moment when his principal measure had been reversed , Mr. Pitt had been called forth ...
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... answer was just and victorious . It is a mere vulgar error , that despotism ceases to be despotism , by merely being ... answered the purposes neither of ministers in England , nor of Company's servants in India . § * Cobbett's Parl ...
... answer was just and victorious . It is a mere vulgar error , that despotism ceases to be despotism , by merely being ... answered the purposes neither of ministers in England , nor of Company's servants in India . § * Cobbett's Parl ...
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... answer by asserting broadly , and confidently , that it was the grand intention of the act of 1784 to transfer the government of India from the Court of Directors to the Board of Control ; and that he had never held a language which ...
... answer by asserting broadly , and confidently , that it was the grand intention of the act of 1784 to transfer the government of India from the Court of Directors to the Board of Control ; and that he had never held a language which ...
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Sida 781 - The Physiognomical System of Drs Gall and Spurzheim, founded on an Anatomical and Physiological Examination of the Nervous System in general, and of the Brain in particular ; and indicating the Dispositions and Manifestations of the Mind.
Sida 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,...
Sida 27 - Bombay, having in sundry instances acted in a manner repugnant to the honour and policy of this nation...
Sida 423 - 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...
Sida 126 - I maintained the wars which were of your formation, or that of others, not of mine. I won one member of the great Indian Confederacy from it by an act of seasonable restitution...
Sida 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'?
Sida 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...
Sida 348 - ... in their language and antiquities, perhaps 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...
Sida 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...
Sida 437 - 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.