 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1870 - 1084 pages
...were carrying on the trade, said, in a despatch to the Governor General, dated October 24th, 1817— " Were it possible to prevent the use of the drug altogether, except for the purposes of medicine, we would gladly do it in compassion to mankind ; " arid Mr. Marjoribanks,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1831 - 682 pages
...in our own dominions, and of competition in foreign places from Opium produced in other countries. Were it possible to prevent the use of the drug altogether,...medicine, we would gladly do it in compassion to mankind ; but this being absolutely impracticable, we can only endeavour to regulate and palliate an evil which... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Agriculture - 1833 - 448 pages
...the revenue ; that it would in fact rather restrict the retail trade of opium dfe much as possible. " Were it possible to prevent the use of the drug altogether,...for the purpose of medicine, we would gladly do it," say the Directors of the East India Company, " in compassion to mankind ; but this being absolutely... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1833 - 514 pages
...the revenue ; that it would in fact rather restrict the retail trade of opium as much as possible. " Were it possible to prevent the use of the drug altogether,...for the purpose of medicine, we would gladly do it," say the Directors of the East India Company, " in compassion to mankind ; but this being absolutely... | |
 | Wiliam adn Sons - 1838 - 624 pages
...so demoralizing to the people. " Were it possible," say the Directors of the East India Company, " to prevent the use of the drug altogether, except...medicine, we would gladly do it, in compassion to mankind ; but this being absolutely impracticable, we can only endeavour to regulate and palliate an evil which... | |
 | 1840 - 906 pages
...in our own dominions and of competition in foreign places, from opium produced in other countries. Were it possible to prevent the use of the drug altogether,...medicine, WE WOULD GLADLY DO IT IN cOMPASSION TO MANKIND ; hut this being absolutely impracticable, we can only endeavor to regulate and palliate an evil which... | |
 | Asia - 1840 - 704 pages
...the solemn language of the Court, in its directions to the Bengal Government, in 1817, as follows : " Were it possible to prevent the use of the drug altogether,...medicine, we would gladly do it, in compassion to mankind ; but this being absolutely impracticable, we can only endeavour tc regulate and palliate an evil which... | |
 | 1840 - 752 pages
...in our own dominions and of competition in foreign places, from opium produced in other countries. Were it possible to prevent the use of the drug altogether,...strictly for the purpose of medicine, WE WOULD GLADLY uo IT IN COMPASSION TO MAXKIND ; but this being absolutely impracticable, we can only endeavor to regulate... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...hesitatingly button up the millions pocketed, insert on their minutes the following declaration : — " Were it possible to prevent the use of the drug altogether,...medicine, we would gladly do it in compassion to mankind." But up to this time it has been asked — and the reply was not always at hand — " What can be done... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1847 - 558 pages
...Company, in a letter to the Governor-general, October 24th, 1817, acknowledge the evil thus : — " Were it possible to prevent the use of the drug altogether, except for the purpose of medicine, we mould gladly do it in compassion to mankind." W. Hamilton Lindsay,... | |
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Were it possible to prevent the use of the drug altogether, except strictly for the purpose of medicine, we would gladly do it in compassion to mankind ; but this being absolutely impracticable, we can only endeavour to regulate and palliate an evil which... 
