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 CharterParbury, Allen, and Company, 1832 - 403 páginas |
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... cultivation ; plundering as they went along , * and seizing , by violence or by treachery , all that was valuable or con- ducive to their present security or ulterior views ; con- trolled by no fixed laws , and by no better sense of ...
... cultivation ; plundering as they went along , * and seizing , by violence or by treachery , all that was valuable or con- ducive to their present security or ulterior views ; con- trolled by no fixed laws , and by no better sense of ...
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... cultivation . An extract from Mr. Orme's works will shew the general inse- curity of private rights under the government of the petty princes : — " The mechanic or artificer will only work to the measure of his neces- sities : he dreads ...
... cultivation . An extract from Mr. Orme's works will shew the general inse- curity of private rights under the government of the petty princes : — " The mechanic or artificer will only work to the measure of his neces- sities : he dreads ...
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... cultivated to an astonishing degree , covered with wide and level roads , never - ending avenues , and thickly - populated towns and villages , with a highly luxuriant but dull and sleepy landscape ; the south is crowned with purple ...
... cultivated to an astonishing degree , covered with wide and level roads , never - ending avenues , and thickly - populated towns and villages , with a highly luxuriant but dull and sleepy landscape ; the south is crowned with purple ...
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... cultivation and richness . But the country is bur- thened with a crowd of lazy , profligate , self - called “ su- wars , " who , though many of them are not worth a rupee , conceive it derogatory to their gentility and Patan blood to ...
... cultivation and richness . But the country is bur- thened with a crowd of lazy , profligate , self - called “ su- wars , " who , though many of them are not worth a rupee , conceive it derogatory to their gentility and Patan blood to ...
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... cultivate to the utmost extent , instead of , as has been foolishly asserted , to throw obstacles in its way : * _ Mr. Bourne , chairman of the Hull Committee , on the Mono- poly of the East - India Company , says , " the Company check ...
... cultivate to the utmost extent , instead of , as has been foolishly asserted , to throw obstacles in its way : * _ Mr. Bourne , chairman of the Hull Committee , on the Mono- poly of the East - India Company , says , " the Company check ...
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amount assertion authority beegah Benares Bengal Bishop Board of Control Bombay British Calcutta cent civil colonization commercial Committee Company's government cotton Court of Directors Crawfurd crime cultivation Cuttack cwts Dacca Decrease despotism districts Ditto of last duty East-India Company empire England English establishment European expense exported foregoing free-trader government of India Hindoos Hindostan Honourable House hundred important improvement increased Indian army indigo inhabitants instance James Cobbett judge King's labour lacs land last ditto Lord William Bentinck Lords Madras Mahomedan Mahrattas manufacture maunds ment merchants military million Molunghees native officers natives of India observed opinion Patna period persons Petitioners political population possession Poynder present presidencies principles produce proprietors provinces racter Rajah respect revenue Rickards road rupees ryots salt monopoly says servants shew square miles sugar talent territories tion Total trade troops village Westminster Review zemindars
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Página 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.
Página 246 - ... facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...