 | John Malcolm - India - 1826 - 620 pages
...contests in which they were involved by the jealousy, avarice, or ambition, of their neighbours, or by the rapacity and ambition of their own servants, they...improving their strength, which soon appeared to be the only mode by which they could avert the recurrence of similar danger. Such, in a few words, is... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1844 - 1184 pages
...factories, the increase of their territories and their armies became a principle of self-preservation ; and at the end of every one of those numerous contests...avarice, or ambition of their neighbours, or the rapacity or ambition of their own servants, they were forced to adopt neasores for improving their strength;... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1846 - 472 pages
...factories, the increase of their territories and their armies became' a principle of self-preservation ; and at the end of every one of those numerous contests...avarice, or ambition of their neighbours, or the rapacity or ambition of their own servants, they were forced to adopt measures for improving their strength;... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1851 - 468 pages
...factories, the increase of their territories and their armies became a principle of self-preservation ; and at the end of. every one of those numerous contests...avarice, or ambition of their neighbours, or the rapacity or ambition of their own servants, they were forced to adopt measures for improving their strength... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 466 pages
...factories, the increase of their territories and their armies became a principle of self-preservation ; and at the end of every one of those numerous contests...avarice, or ambition of their neighbours, or the rapacity or ambition of their own servants, they were forced to adopt measures for improving their strength;... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1853 - 672 pages
...territories and their armies became a principle of self-preservation ; and at the end of every one of these numerous contests in which they were involved by the...avarice, or ambition of their neighbours, or the rapacity or ambition of their own servants, they were forced to adopt measures for improving their strength,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - India - 1853 - 718 pages
...territories and their armies became a principle of self-preservation ; and at the end of every one of these numerous contests in which they were involved by the...avarice, or ambition of their neighbours, or the rapacity or ambition of their own servants, they were forced to adopt measures for improving their strength,... | |
 | William Douglas Hamilton - 1855 - 164 pages
...factories, the increase of their territories and their armies became a principle of self-preservation ; and at the end of every one of those numerous contests...avarice, or ambition of their neighbours, or the rapacity or ambition of their own servants, they were forced to adopt measures for improving their strength... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - India - 1873 - 698 pages
...territories and their armies became a principle of self-preservation; and at the end of every one of these numerous contests in which they were involved by the...avarice, or ambition of their neighbours, or the rapacity or ambition of their own servants, they were forced to adopt measures for improving their strength,... | |
 | James Grant - India - 1876 - 602 pages
...factories, the increase of their territories and their armies became a principle of self-preeervation ; and at the end of every one of those numerous contests...avarice, or ambition of their neighbours, or the rapacity or ambition of their servants, they were forced to adopt measures for improving their strength, which... | |
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The truth is," says one of the greatest authorities in Indian affairs, " that, from the day on which the company's troops marched one mile from their factories, the increase of their territories and their armies became a principle of self-preservation... 
