 | James Mill - Hindus - 1817 - 744 pages
...money is plenty, where fear is the principle of government, and where your arms are ever victorious, it is no wonder that the lust of riches should readily...rapacity. Examples of this sort, set by superiors, could not fail of being followed in a proportionable degree by inferiors. The evil was contagious,... | |
 | John Malcolm - India - 1836 - 402 pages
...money is plenty, where fear is the principle of government, and where your arms are ever victorious, it is no wonder that the lust of riches •should...rapacity. Examples of this sort, set by superiors, could not fail of being followed, in a proportionable degree, by inferiors. The evil was contagious,... | |
 | William Howitt - Atrocities - 1838 - 548 pages
...money is plenty, where fear is the principle of government, and where your arms are ever victorious, it is no wonder that the lust of riches should readily...rapacity. Examples of this sort, set by superiors, could not fail being1 followed, in a proportionate degree, by inferiors. The evil was contagious, and... | |
 | James Mill - Hindus - 1840 - 674 pages
...money is plenty, where fear is the principle of government, and where your arms are ever victorious, it is no wonder that the lust of riches should readily...themselves of their authority, and proceed even to extor1765. tion in those cases where simple corruption could not keep pace with their rapacity. Examples... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 pages
...money is plentiful, where fear is the principle of government, and where your arms are ever victorious, it is no wonder that the lust of riches should readily...of their authority, and proceed even to extortion where simple corruption could not keep pace with their rapacity. Examples of this sort set by superiors,... | |
 | James Mill - Hindus - 1848 - 674 pages
...money is plenty, where fear is the principle of government, and where your arms are ever victorious, it is no wonder that the lust of riches should readily...the proffered means of its gratification, or that BOOK iv tjig instruments of your power should avail themCHAP. 7. * r selves of their authority, and... | |
 | James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson - Hindus - 1848 - 670 pages
...that lhat in either case a breach of the covenants could be attempted with impunity.— W. BOOK iv tne instruments of your power should avail themselves of their authority, and proceed even to extor1765. tion m those cases where simple corruption could not keep pace with their rapacity. Examples... | |
 | James Mill - Hindus - 1858 - 474 pages
...money is plenty, where fear is the principle of government, and where your arms are ever victorious, it is no wonder that the lust of riches should readily...power should avail themselves of their authority, 1 This conclusion is scarcely justified by the premises. Clive, in the first instance, intimates that... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1861 - 644 pages
...money is plenty, where fear is the principle of government, and where your arms are ever victorious, it is no wonder that the lust of riches should readily...rapacity. Examples of this sort, set by superiors [and who had set such more than Clive?], could not fail of being followed, in a proportionate degree,... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1861 - 650 pages
...money is plenty, where fear is the principle of government, and where your arms are ever victorious, it is no wonder that the lust of riches should readily...embrace the proffered means of its gratification, or taat the instruments of your power should avail themselves of their authority, and proceed even to... | |
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It is no wonder that the Lust of riches should readily embrace the proffered means of its gratification, or that the Instruments of your Power should avail themselves of their Authority, and proceed even to Extortion in those Cases where simple Corruption... 
