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... possession calm in every tempest ... government of the country , brought in a bill which created a Board of ... military govern- ment or revenues of the territories and possessions of the United Company in the East Indies . The Presidency of.
... possession calm in every tempest ... government of the country , brought in a bill which created a Board of ... military govern- ment or revenues of the territories and possessions of the United Company in the East Indies . The Presidency of.
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Page 72 - is the key of heaven and of hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer; whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk; and the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim.
Page 17 - Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers: And such she was; — her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers.
Page 113 - European troops it is of course superfluous to speak ; but all the native battalions appear, from every account of the action, to have been entitled to equal praise on this memorable occasion ; and it is difficult to say whether they were most distinguished when suffering with a patient courage under a heavy cannonade, when receiving and repulsing the shock of the flower of Hyder's cavalry, or when attacking in their turn the troops of that monarch, who, baffled in all his efforts, retreated from...
Page 84 - When provisions were very low, the Hindoo sepoys entreated their commander to allow them to boil the rice (the only food left) for the whole garrison. ' Your English soldiers,' they said, 'can eat from our hands, though we cannot from theirs — we will allot as their share every grain of the rice, and subsist ourselves by drinking the water in which it has been boiled.
Page 153 - Europe, has been thus wrested from the short usurpation of the French Government, added to the dominion of the British Crown ; and converted from a seat of hostile machination and commercial competition, into an augmentation of British power and prosperity.
Page 117 - ... in all suits regarding inheritance, marriage, caste, and other religious usages or institutions, the laws of the Koran with respect to Mohammedans, and those of the Shaster with respect to Gentoos, shall be invariably adhered to.
Page 61 - English factories seized the preceding year, or since, should be restored, with the money, goods, and effects appertaining : that all damages sustained by the English should be repaired, and their losses repaid : that the English should have liberty to fortify Calcutta in whatever manner they thought proper without interruption : that they should have...
Page 123 - From time to time to check, superintend, and control all acts, operations, and concerns, which, in any wise, relate to the civil or military government or revenues of the territories and possessions of the United Company in the East Indies.
Page 133 - Disorder of every kind ran riot over the whole length and breadth of the land. Never were the evils of misrule more horribly apparent ; never were the vices of an indolent and rapacious Government productive of a greater sum of misery. The extravagance and profligacy of the court were written in hideous characters on the desolated face of the country.
Page 61 - English in any of those privileges or possessions specified in the firm, and granted by the mogul : that all merchandise belonging to the company should pass and repass, in every part of the province of Bengal, free of duty : that all the English factories seized the preceding year, or since, should be restored, with the money, goods, and effects appertaining: that all damages sustained by the English should be repaired, and their losses repaid : that the English should have liberty to fortify Calcutta,...