 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Great Britain - 1859 - 398 pages
...century ago (1784) the English Parliament (with more right feeling indeed than grammar) proclaimed that " to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour and policy of this nation."* It went further still, and enacted that "whereas complaints have... | |
 | 1859 - 420 pages
...of real, national greatness, in the spirit in which Parliament declared in the last century, " that to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wishes, the honour, and policy of this * It will be permitted to the editor of this Journal to state,... | |
 | Saxe Bannister - China - 1859 - 420 pages
...of real, national greatness, in the spirit in which Parliament declared in the last century, " that to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wishes, the honour, and policy of this * It will be permitted to the editor of this Journal to state,... | |
 | Warren Hastings - Impeachments - 1861 - 936 pages
...for which abuse now he presumes to take merit to himself. I will read it to your Lordships : — [" And, whereas, to pursue schemes of conquest and extension...dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour and policy, of this nation ; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall... | |
 | Sir Edward Cust - 1862 - 384 pages
...14. WAR IN INDIA. In Mr. Pitt's celebrated India Bill (24th Gco. III. c. 25) it is recited, " that to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation." Lord Cornwallis was sent out in 178(i to suce«*! Wurren Hastings... | |
 | William Anderson - Heraldry - 1862 - 806 pages
...and, on April 5, 1805, gave his support to the resolution brought forward by Sir Philip Francis, "That to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are alike repngnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of mis nation." His opinions on all questions... | |
 | Englishmen - Great Britain - 1863 - 912 pages
...to reprobate Lord Wellesley's Indian policy, and supported the motion of Sir Philip Francis, " that to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of Britain." In 1808 he zealously opposed the measure for deposing the nabobs... | |
 | William Waterston - Commerce - 1863 - 1028 pages
...supposed to have arisen ; in particular, to renounce all schemes of war and conquest, declaring that " schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India, are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the interest of this nation." In order to fulfil the objects of the act, Lord Cornwallis... | |
 | Sir Edwin Arnold - India - 1865 - 414 pages
...seriously impressed with the wisdom and necessity of that solemn declaration of the Legislature, that to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion...in India, are measures repugnant to ' the wish, the honour, and policy' of the nation." Yet statesmen were just as inconsistent as stockholders ! Among... | |
 | Hastings Fraser - Afghan Wars - 1865 - 544 pages
...course of my present reflections, a question has originated from it which I think proper here to state. To pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India, are declared in the preamble to the clause to be measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy... | |
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And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation... 
