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 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1854 - 412 pages
...East had been studiously repressed — it having been declared, that "to pursue schemes of conquest or extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of the nation." But this declaration, in appearance so just and practicable,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1857 - 572 pages
...act to your lordships. [Mr. Burke here read 24 Geo. III. cap. 24, sect. 34.] " And whereas to ursue 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 futher enacted by the authority aforesaid, That... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1858 - 610 pages
...The Act of Parliament referred to is the 33rd of George III., c. 52, AD 1793, which enacts that, " forasmuch as to pursue schemes of conquest and extension...dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of this nation, it shall not be lawful for the GovernorGeneral in Council of... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1858 - 614 pages
...The Act of Parliament referred to is the 33rd of George III., c. 52, An 1793, which enacts 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 be lawful... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Great Britain - 1859 - 398 pages
...century ago (1784) the English Parliament (with more right feeling indeed than grammar) proclaimed 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 went further still, and enacted that "whereas complaints have... | |
 | 1859 - 420 pages
...of real, national greatness, in the spirit in which Parliament declared in the last century, " that to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wishes, the honour, and policy of this * It will be permitted to the editor of this Journal to state,... | |
 | Saxe Bannister - China - 1859 - 420 pages
...of real, national greatness, in the spirit in which Parliament declared in the last century, " that to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wishes, the honour, and policy of this * It will be permitted to the editor of this Journal to state,... | |
 | Warren Hastings - Impeachments - 1861 - 936 pages
...abuse now he presumes to take merit to himself. I will read it to your Lordships : — [" And, 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 enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall... | |
 | Sir Edward Cust - 1862 - 384 pages
...14. WAR IN INDIA. In Mr. Pitt's celebrated India Bill (24th Gco. III. c. 25) it is recited, " 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." Lord Cornwallis was sent out in 178(i to suce«*! Wurren Hastings... | |
 | Henry Beveridge - India - 1862 - 910 pages
...all political parties, it had been Hon."" ' embodied in an act of parliament, which declared, 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." This declaration standing unrepealed, furnished a rule from... | |
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