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ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY:-I agriculture Amendment Ordinance Anuradhapura appointed arrack ATTORNEY-GENERAL ATTORNEY-GENERAL:-I move Batticaloa Bill BURGHER MEMBER By-laws cattle cent Ceylon Legislative July Ceylon Legislative Nov CEYLONESE MEMBER Collector of Customs Colombo Colombo Municipal Council CONTROLLER OF REVENUE Council Debates COUNCIL OF CEYLON Court estimated EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER Excise expenditure foreign liquor taverns honourable friend Honourable Member increase India Island Jaffna July 17 Kataragama land Legislative Council LOW-COUNTRY SINHALESE MEMBER matter Matugama MEMBER:-I ment million rupees motion was agreed move the second Municipal Council object OFFICER ADMINISTERING Ordinance to amend person police present Principal Civil Medical Principal Collector proposed Province provision question Railway read a third regard REGINALD EDWARD STUBBS rice road rubber rules rupees SECOND LOW-COUNTRY SINHALESE second reading SECOND TAMIL MEMBER Section Select Committee statement Supplementary Votes tank districts TREASURER seconded villagers vote
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Página 385 - The policy of His Majesty's Government, with -which the Government of India are in complete accord, is that of the increasing association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realization of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire.
Página 367 - But if any man were to say so to any six hundred and fifty-eight respectable farmers or shopkeepers, chosen by lot in any part of England, he would be hooted down, and laughed to scorn. Are these the feelings with which any part of the government ought to be regarded ? Above all, are these the feelings with which the popular branch of the legislature ought to be regarded ? It is almost as essential to the utility of a House of Commons, that it should possess the confidence of the people, as that...
Página 359 - When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East, above all, those of India which are beginning to spread in Europe, we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which the European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.
Página 367 - ... country. Monarchy and aristocracy, valuable and useful as I think them, are still valuable and useful as means and not as ends. The end of government is the happiness of the people, and I do not conceive that, in a country like this, the happiness of the people can be promoted by a form of government in which the middle classes place no confidence, and which exists only because the middle classes have no organ by which to make their sentiments known.
Página 367 - ... symptoms exist in the present case. The taint has been gradually becoming more extensive and more malignant, through the whole lifetime of two generations. We have tried anodynes. We have tried cruel operations. What are we to try now? Who flatters himself that he can turn this feeling back? Does there remain any argument which escaped the comprehensive intellect of Mr Burke, or the subtlety of Mr Windham?
Página 122 - Commissioner the whole of such examination, including every question put to him and every answer given by him, shall be recorded in full, in the language in which he is examined, or, if that is not practicable, in the language of the Court or...
Página 359 - The divine origin of man, as taught by the Vedanta, is continually inculcated, to stimulate his efforts to return, to animate him in the struggle, and incite him to consider a reunion and reincorporation with Divinity as the one primary object of every action and reaction.
Página 359 - In the whole world there is no study, except that of the originals, so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
Página 359 - If these words of Schopenhauer's required any endorsement, I should willingly give it as the result of my own experience during a long life devoted to the study of many philosophies and many religions.
Página 123 - No confession or admission of guilt made by any person whilst he is in the custody of a Police Officer, unless it be made in the immediate presence of a Magistrate, shall be used as evidence against such person.