The History of British India, Volume 5James Madden; Piper, Stephenson and Spence, 1858 - Hindus |
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Page 36 - Forasmuch as to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of this nation...
Page 36 - Bombay, having in sundry. instances acted in a manner repugnant to the honour and policy of this nation...
Page 24 - ... the chalice of the fornications of rapine. usury, and oppression, which was held out by the gorgeous Eastern harlot ; which so many of the people, so many of the nobles, of this land had drained to the very dregs. Do you think that no reckoning was to follow this lewd debauch ? that no payment was to be demanded for this riot of public drunkenness and national prostitution ? Here ! you have it here before you.
Page 22 - Paul Benfield is the grand parliamentary reformer, the reformer to whom the whole choir of reformers bow, and to whom even the right honourable gentleman himself must yield the palm : for what region in the empire, what city, what borough, what county, what tribunal, in this kingdom^ is not full of his labours'?
Page 23 - ... parliament. We have never enjoyed in this house the luxury of beholding that minion of the human race, and contemplating that visage, which has so long reflected the happiness of nations. It was therefore not possible for the minister to consult personally with this great man. What then was he to do ? Through a sagacity that never failed him in these pursuits, he found out in Mr.
Page 162 - I maintained the wars which were of your formation or that of others, not of mine. I won one member of the great Indian confederacy from it by an act of seasonable restitution ; with another I maintained a secret intercourse, and converted him into a friend ; a third I drew off by diversion and negotiation, and employed him as the instrument of peace.
Page 23 - ... his charitable toils for the relief of India, did not forget the poor, rotten Constitution of his native country. For her, he did not disdain to stoop to the trade of a wholesale upholsterer for this House, — to furnish it, not with the faded tapestry figures of antiquated merit, such as decorate, and may reproach, some other houses, but with real, solid, living patterns of true modern virtue.
Page 335 - In this description, namely the foregone description, I must even include almost every zemindar in the company's territories, which, though it may have been partly occasioned by their own indolence and extravagance, I am afraid must also be in a great measure attributed to the defects of our former system of management, paragraph 20.
Page 220 - Troward, or yourself, the general merits of this transaction, you will erect a cenotaph most grateful to my shade, and will clear my memory from that load which the East India Company, King, Lords, and Commons, and in a manner the whole British nation (God forgive them), have been pleased to lay as a monument upon my ashes.
Page 24 - London contest ; and you all remember, that in the same virtuous cause he submitted to keep a sort of public office or counting-house, where the whole business of the last general election was managed.