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 | Edward Thornton - India - 1842 - 632 pages
...passed not long before the departure of Lord Cornwallis for his government,* after reciting that " to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation," it was declared that it should not be lawful for the governor-general... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1827 - 612 pages
...At least, notwithstanding the famous resolution of pariiament embodied in Mr. Pitt's act, — " that to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India, are measures repugnant to the with, the honour, and the policy of Great Britain," — it has so occurred, that all the governors... | |
 | Encyclopaedias, William Waterston - Commerce - 1843 - 724 pages
...supposed to have arisen ; in particular, to renounce all schemes of war and conquest, declaring that " schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India, are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the interest of this nation." In order to fulfil the objects of the act, Lord Cornwallis... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1846 - 472 pages
...court of directors coincided fully with a clause in the new act of our legislature, declaring, ' that to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion...are measures repugnant to the wish, the honor, and the policy of Great Britain.' It was farther made unlawful for the supreme government to engage in... | |
 | Robert Rouiere Pearce - Great Britain - 1846 - 488 pages
...twenty-fourth year of the reign of his present Majesty, it was declared and enacted, that, ' Whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation. Be it therefore further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That... | |
 | Robert Rouiere Pearce - 1847 - 498 pages
...twenty-fourth year of the reign of his present Majesty, it was declared and enacted, that, ' Whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation. Be it therefore further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1848 - 516 pages
...and void, when tried by that law. By the 33rd Geo. HI., chap. 52. sect. 48, it is enacted — " That forasmuch as to pursue schemes of conquest and extension...dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and tbe policy of this nation, it shall not he lawful, either for the Governor General of India,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1848 - 568 pages
...and void, when tried by that law. By the 33rd Gco. HI., chap. 52. sect. 48, it is enacted — " That forasmuch as to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India arc measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of this nation, it shall not ho lawful,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1849 - 518 pages
...charter was granted by Parliament to the East India Company, it was expressly declared in it, that " 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." Not-withstanding of all this repugnance to an extension of... | |
 | 1851 - 636 pages
...the East India Company's charter was renewed, with this express declaration embodied in it — " That to pursue schemes of conquest, and extension of dominion...in India, are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of the nation." English aggressions upon the native powers, were, indeed, scarcely... | |
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