England in EgyptArnold, 1894 - 448 من الصفحات |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
administration amount Arabic authority Barrage Britain British Government British influence British officers Cairo Caisse Canals character civilized cloth condition Convention Convention of London Corvée Crown 8vo cultivation Daira Debt Demy 8vo difficulty doubt duty Edition effect Egyptian army Egyptian Finance Egyptian Government England English Englishmen European existing expenditure fact flood foreign France French hand Henry Drummond Wolff Illustrations important improvement increase interest internal irrigation Ismail Ismail Pasha judges justice Khartum Khedive land Law of Liquidation less Lloyd Lord Dufferin matter ment million Minister Ministry Mixed Tribunals Moreover Mudirs nations Native Courts necessary never Nile Valley Nubar Pasha object once political position possible Powers present principle progress question reduced reform result revenue Riaz Pasha river Sir Evelyn Baring Suakin success Sudan taxation things thousand tion Turkey Turkish Upper Egypt Wadi Halfa whole
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 33 - that in important questions, where the administration and safety of Egypt are at stake, it is indispensable that her Majesty's Government should, so long as the provisional occupation of the country by English troops continues, be assured that the advice which, after full consideration of the views of the Egyptian Government, they may feel it their duty to tender to the Khedive, should be followed.
الصفحة 216 - When Ismail came to the throne in 1863, the debt of Egypt was only a little over three millions. The annual revenue of the country was amply sufficient to meet all needful expenditure, yet by the end of 1876 the debt had risen to eighty-nine millions. It had been increased nearly thirtyfold in thirteen years.
الصفحة 407 - is not exercised to impose an uncongenial foreign system upon a reluctant people. It is a force making for the triumph of the simplest ideas of honesty, humanity, and justice, to the value of which Egyptians are just as much alive as any one else.
الصفحة 33 - It should be made clear to the Egyptian Ministers and Governors of provinces, that the responsibility which for the time rests on England obliges Her Majesty's Government to insist on the adoption of the policy which they recommend, and that it will be necessary that those Ministers and Governors who do not follow this course should cease to hold their offices.
الصفحة 148 - ... evacuation had taken place, apply to English as much as to any other troops ; but it will be necessary to restrict this provision , as far as England is concerned, to periods of tranquillity. England, if she spontaneously and willingly evacuates the country, must retain a treaty-right of intervention if at any time either internal peace or external security should be seriously threatened.
الصفحة 253 - The poorest peasant in the country is now annually furnished with a tax-paper, wird, as it is called, which shows him exactly what he has to pay to the Government, and at what seasons the instalments are due. The dates of these instalments, moreover, which vary in different provinces, have been arranged so as to correspond as nearly as possible with the seasons when the cultivator realizes his produce, and is therefore in the best position to discharge his debt to the state. The necessity no longer...
الصفحة 32 - The object has happily been accomplished ; and although for the present a British force remains in Egypt for the preservation of public tranquillity, Her Majesty's Government are desirous of withdrawing it as soon as the state of the country, and the organization of proper means for the maintenance of the Khedive's authority, will admit of it.
الصفحة 435 - Alike by the nature of our interests, by the nature of our power, and by certain special qualities in our national character, we seem marked out for the discharge of this particular duty.