The History of British India, Part 36Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820 - Hindus |
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... engaged by the presence , of their object , that they easily concentrate their views , and point their energies with perfect con- stancy in the selfish direction . The apathy and in- attention of the people , on the one hand , and the ...
... engaged by the presence , of their object , that they easily concentrate their views , and point their energies with perfect con- stancy in the selfish direction . The apathy and in- attention of the people , on the one hand , and the ...
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... engaged with the work . The cloth , when made , is collected in a ware- house , adapted for the purpose , and called a kattah . Each piece is marked with the weaver's name ; and when the whole is finished , or when it is convenient for ...
... engaged with the work . The cloth , when made , is collected in a ware- house , adapted for the purpose , and called a kattah . Each piece is marked with the weaver's name ; and when the whole is finished , or when it is convenient for ...
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... engaged in the Indian trade , the Ostend Company experienced the greatest success . At a meeting of Proprietors , in 1726 , the remaining in- stalment on the subscriptions , equal to a dividend of thirty - three and one third per cent ...
... engaged in the Indian trade , the Ostend Company experienced the greatest success . At a meeting of Proprietors , in 1726 , the remaining in- stalment on the subscriptions , equal to a dividend of thirty - three and one third per cent ...
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... engaged to per- form on the Company's account , they had been al- lowed to carry on an independent traffic of their own , for their own profit . Every man had in this manner a double occupation and pursuit ; one for the benefit 1 Orme ...
... engaged to per- form on the Company's account , they had been al- lowed to carry on an independent traffic of their own , for their own profit . Every man had in this manner a double occupation and pursuit ; one for the benefit 1 Orme ...
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... engaged as auxiliaries ; and in the end had become nearly , or rather altogether , principals . From 1739 , England had been at war with Spain , a war intended to an- nul the right , claimed and exercised by the Spaniards , of searching ...
... engaged as auxiliaries ; and in the end had become nearly , or rather altogether , principals . From 1739 , England had been at war with Spain , a war intended to an- nul the right , claimed and exercised by the Spaniards , of searching ...
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Page 53 - I do not trust to Mr. Francis's promises of candour, convinced that he is incapable of it. I judge of his public conduct by his private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour.
Page 422 - I hope I shall not depart from the simplicity of official language in saying, the majesty of justice ought to be approached with solicitation, not descend to provoke or invite it, much less to debase itself by the suggestion of wrongs, and the promise of redress, with the denunciation of punishments before trial, and even before accusation.
Page 148 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Page 292 - I have been surprised to meet with several English flags flying in places which I have passed; and on the river I do not believe that I passed a boat without one.
Page 300 - The conduct of the Company's servants upon this occasion," says James Mill in his History of British India, " furnishes one of the most remarkable instances upon record of the power of interest to extinguish all sense of justice, and even of shame.
Page 514 - AGRA. the emperor flings himself into the hands of the Mahrattas, or any other power, we are disengaged from him, and it may open a fair opportunity of withholding the twenty-six lacs of rupees we now pay him.
Page 386 - Under the Sanction of a Soubah every encroachment that may be attempted by Foreign Powers can effectually be crushed without any apparent Interposition of our own Authority ; and all real Grievances complained of by them, can, through the same channel, be examined into and redressed. Be it therefore always remembered that there is a...
Page 461 - The Nazims exacted what they could from the Zemindars, and great Farmers of the Revenue, whom they left at Liberty to plunder all below them reserving to themselves the Prerogative of Plundering them in their Turn, when they were supposed to have enriched themselves with the Spoils of the country.
Page 462 - to stand forth as Diwan and by the agency of the Company's servants to take upon themselves the entire care and management of the revenues."!
Page 359 - To go farther, is in my opinion, a scheme so extravagantly ambitious and absurd, that no Governor and Council in their senses can ever adopt it, unless the whole system of the Company's interest be first entirely new modelled.