The Company and the CrownWilliam Blackwood, 1866 - 309 من الصفحات |
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... advantages of commercial government ; and into so great security had the rich men of Leaden- hall Street suffered themselves to be lulled by Lord Dalhousie's eloquent success , that prudential measures of all kinds had been alike ...
... advantages of commercial government ; and into so great security had the rich men of Leaden- hall Street suffered themselves to be lulled by Lord Dalhousie's eloquent success , that prudential measures of all kinds had been alike ...
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... between the Queen's and Company's armies a feeling that each was not unworthy of the other : neither was this feeling purely sentimental ; each saw , or thought he saw , a positive advantage in such union . 24 THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA .
... between the Queen's and Company's armies a feeling that each was not unworthy of the other : neither was this feeling purely sentimental ; each saw , or thought he saw , a positive advantage in such union . 24 THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA .
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... advantage in such union . To Eng- lish officers who had devoted time and opportunities to the study of native ... advantages implied in changes and exchanges from India's dusty camps to Aldershot or Chobham . Thus , in a way and for a ...
... advantage in such union . To Eng- lish officers who had devoted time and opportunities to the study of native ... advantages implied in changes and exchanges from India's dusty camps to Aldershot or Chobham . Thus , in a way and for a ...
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... advantage ; for while Sir William in civil matters learnt to count for firm support upon his military adviser , Sir Hope , in those measures of professional reform which are his soul's delight , found his surest advocate in the Gover ...
... advantage ; for while Sir William in civil matters learnt to count for firm support upon his military adviser , Sir Hope , in those measures of professional reform which are his soul's delight , found his surest advocate in the Gover ...
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... advantage the beauties of a manly head ; and though not altogether free from the odious effects of betel - nut so common to his race , his lips and their expression had , strange to say , not suffered ; and while his eye was cold and ...
... advantage the beauties of a manly head ; and though not altogether free from the odious effects of betel - nut so common to his race , his lips and their expression had , strange to say , not suffered ; and while his eye was cold and ...
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الصفحة 245 - The school-boy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; — and the dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent.
الصفحة 245 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man — taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug...
الصفحة 245 - ... paid a license of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to hia fathers, — to be taxed no more.
الصفحة 245 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
الصفحة 174 - The Court of Ava having refused to make amends for the injuries and insults which British subjects had suffered at the hands of its servants, the GovernorGeneral of India in Council resolved to exact reparation by force of arms. The forts and cities upon the coast were forthwith attacked and captured ; the...
الصفحة 175 - Burmah, and is willing to consent that hostilities should cease. But if the King of Ava shall fail to renew his former relations of friendship with the British Government, and if he shall recklessly seek to dispute its quiet possession of the Province it has now declared to be its own, the Governor-General in Council will again put forth the power he holds, and will visit with full retribution aggressions which, if they be persisted in, must of necessity lead to the total subversion of the Burman...
الصفحة 245 - ... raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man ; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the Judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; 25 on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice ; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride ; — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
الصفحة 100 - Results like these reflect the highest honour on the administration of your Lordship in Council, and on the system of Indian government generally. It is a source of just pride to us that our services, civil and military, should have afforded men capable, in so short a time, of carrying into full effect such a series of enlightened and beneficent measures.
الصفحة 224 - By the latter end of July all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Burrampooter, are overflowed, and form an inundation of more than a hundred miles in width ; nothing appearing but villages and trees, excepting very rarely the top of an elevated (pot (the artificial mound of fome deferted village) appearing like an if.and.
الصفحة 59 - In many respects the Mahommedan surpassed our rule ; they settled in the countries which they conquered ; they intermixed and intermarried with the natives ; they admitted them to all privileges ; the interests and sympathies of the conquerors and conquered became identified. " Our policy, on the contrary, has been the reverse of this ; cold, selfish, and unfeeling ; the iron hand of power on the one side, monopoly and exclusion on the other.