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 Charter |
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... Company's participation in idolatry replied 179 to 200 to CHAPTER VII . The colonization of India by Englishmen ... Company by a Hindoo ; -refutation of Mr. Crawfurd and Mr. Rickards re- specting the miseries of the Molunghees , & c ...
... Company's participation in idolatry replied 179 to 200 to CHAPTER VII . The colonization of India by Englishmen ... Company by a Hindoo ; -refutation of Mr. Crawfurd and Mr. Rickards re- specting the miseries of the Molunghees , & c ...
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... Company's Charter Robert Montgomery Martin. contend that all the East - India Company have to do is to give perfect political liberty to the people of India , and as they are " capable of every virtue and every acquire- ment that can ...
... Company's Charter Robert Montgomery Martin. contend that all the East - India Company have to do is to give perfect political liberty to the people of India , and as they are " capable of every virtue and every acquire- ment that can ...
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... Company's Charter Robert Montgomery Martin. abject submission being fixed and rooted in Indian society for ages ! " From among men , who , according to the same author ( page 41 ) , exhibited ( Mr. Rickards makes it present ) " one ...
... Company's Charter Robert Montgomery Martin. abject submission being fixed and rooted in Indian society for ages ! " From among men , who , according to the same author ( page 41 ) , exhibited ( Mr. Rickards makes it present ) " one ...
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... Company's sale of goods during the past year , the duties and allowances arising from private trade , the net profits of the Company in Great Britain , and the application and disposition thereof ; a general statement per computation of ...
... Company's sale of goods during the past year , the duties and allowances arising from private trade , the net profits of the Company in Great Britain , and the application and disposition thereof ; a general statement per computation of ...
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... Company's affairs to the 30th April in each year ; such accounts and papers as may from time to time be laid before ... Company generally , before the same shall have passed into a law . The following powers are vested in the Court . The ...
... Company's affairs to the 30th April in each year ; such accounts and papers as may from time to time be laid before ... Company generally , before the same shall have passed into a law . The following powers are vested in the Court . The ...
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Page 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.
Page 246 - ... facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...