Reflections on the present state of British India

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الصفحة 205 - set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature, and the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories in India,
الصفحة 135 - prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to " take away the matter of them, for if there be " fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the " spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
الصفحة ix - This I know, that errors in a good government and in a bad are equally almost incident; for what magistrate may not be misinformed, and much the sooner, if liberty of printing be reduced into the power of a few ? But to redress willingly and speedily what hath been erred, and in highest authority to esteem a plain
الصفحة 200 - were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of. our dominion, by any thing better than the ouranoutang or the tiger,
الصفحة 135 - and troubles; and if this poverty and " broken estate in the better sort be joined with " a want and necessity in the mean people, the " danger is imminent and great; for the re" bellions of the belly are the
الصفحة 14 - Britain to the pinnacle of glory. Long may " they enjoy it! but in India, that haughty " spirit, independence, and deep thought, which " the possession of great wealth sometimes gives, " ought to be suppressed. They are directly " adverse to our power and interest. The nature " of things, the past experience of all
الصفحة 51 - line, a body of Cossacks about to charge, disperse at the word of command, very much in the manner of a fan suddenly flung open, and joining in a loud yell, or hourra, rush, each acting individually, upon the object of attack, whether infantry, cavalry, or artillery, to all of which they have been, in
الصفحة 13 - certain families in affluence, " to produce senators, sages, and heroes, for the " service and defence of the state; or in other " words, that great part of the rent should go to " an opulent nobility and gentry, who are to " serve their country in Parliament, in the army " and navy, in the departments of science, and
الصفحة 85 - few years, reduced most of the great zemindars in Bengal to distress and beggary, and produced a greater change in the landed property of Bengal than has perhaps ever happened in the same space of time in any age or country, by the mere effect of internal regulations.
الصفحة ix - more than Others have done a sumptuous bribe, is a virtue (honoured Lords and Commons) answerable to your highest actions, and whereof none can participate but greatest and wisest men."*

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