The Political, Commercial, & Financial Condition of the Anglo-eastern Empire in 1832: An Analysis of Its Home and Foreign Governments, and a Practical Examination of the Doctrines of Free Trade and Colonization, with Reference to the Renewal Or Modification of the Hon. East-India Company's CharterParbury, Allen, and Company, 1832 - 403 σελίδες |
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... province was more destructive than myriads of locusts , or years of drought and pestilence ; while of their rulers it has been truly observed , that their musnuds were their horse - cloths , their sceptres their swords , and their ...
... province was more destructive than myriads of locusts , or years of drought and pestilence ; while of their rulers it has been truly observed , that their musnuds were their horse - cloths , their sceptres their swords , and their ...
Σελίδα 7
... . + Throughout the western provinces of India the long continued fears of the peasantry have not yet subsided sufficiently to allow of their appearing abroad unarmed . Mr. Rickards ' description of the Mahomedan dynasties in India.
... . + Throughout the western provinces of India the long continued fears of the peasantry have not yet subsided sufficiently to allow of their appearing abroad unarmed . Mr. Rickards ' description of the Mahomedan dynasties in India.
Σελίδα 8
... provinces . * " To review the occurrences of this period , would only be to give further examples of the same unprovoked and devastating warfare , the same struggles for power , the same unbridled thirst of conquest , the same perfidy ...
... provinces . * " To review the occurrences of this period , would only be to give further examples of the same unprovoked and devastating warfare , the same struggles for power , the same unbridled thirst of conquest , the same perfidy ...
Σελίδα 10
... provinces like wild beasts ; with other like modes of royal amusement , may be feasted to satiety in the history of ... province . " + Rickards ' India , vol . i . P. 220 . desire to uphold his tyranny with ; when the true 10.
... provinces like wild beasts ; with other like modes of royal amusement , may be feasted to satiety in the history of ... province . " + Rickards ' India , vol . i . P. 220 . desire to uphold his tyranny with ; when the true 10.
Σελίδα 11
... provinces were also incessant , so that the work of war and blood was perpetual ; massacres were common to every reign , when the butchery extended , not only to the parties immediately concerned , but to their vassals , dependents ...
... provinces were also incessant , so that the work of war and blood was perpetual ; massacres were common to every reign , when the butchery extended , not only to the parties immediately concerned , but to their vassals , dependents ...
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The Political, Commercial, and Financial Condition of the Anglo-Eastern ... Robert Montgomery Martin Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2017 |
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Σελίδα 246 - One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Σελίδα 246 - ... facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
Σελίδα 50 - Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains ? The despotism of vice — The weakness and the wickedness of luxury — The negligence — the apathy — the evils Of sensual sloth — produce ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.
Σελίδα 272 - The inhabitants give themselves no trouble about the breaking up and division of kingdoms ; while the village remains entire, they care not to what power it is transferred, or to what sovereign it devolves ; its internal economy remains unchanged...
Σελίδα 246 - ... in changes, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion; and remember, especially, that, for the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a Government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of Liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a Government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest Guardian.
Σελίδα 246 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
Σελίδα 36 - ... a system which tends, more than any thing else the Devil has yet invented, to destroy the feelings of general benevolence, and to make nine-tenths of mankind the hopeless slaves of the remainder...
Σελίδα 250 - ... .The principal attention of the sovereign ought to be to encourage, by every means in his power, the attention both of the landlord and of the farmer ; by allowing both to pursue their own interest in their own way, and according to their own judgment...
Σελίδα 246 - In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments, as of other human institutions...
Σελίδα 250 - The principal attention of the sovereign ought to be to encourage, by every means in his power, the attention both of the landlord and of the farmer; by allowing both to pursue their own interest in their own way, and according to their own judgment; by giving to both the most perfect security that they shall enjoy the full recompence of their own industry...