The Political History of India, from 1784 to 1823, Volumen2J. Murray., 1826 |
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Página 16 - We have at last arrived at that critical period which I have long foreseen ; I mean that period which renders it necessary for us to determine whether we can or shall take the whole to ourselves.
Página 50 - 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...
Página lxv - Directors, in any case (except where hostilities have actually been commenced, or preparations actually made for the commencement of hostilities against the British nation in India...
Página lxxxiii - Cabul, or even if he had entered into any negociation with France, of which the object was at all obscure ; it might be our duty to resort in the first instance to his construction of proceedings, which being of a doubtful character, might admit of a satisfactory explanation. But where there is no doubt, there can be no matter for explanation. The act of...
Página 33 - No regulation can be carried into execution, no order obeyed, if you do not make rigorous examples of the disobedient. Upon this point I rest the welfare of the Company in Bengal. The servants are now brought to a proper sense of their duty ; if you slacken the reins of government, affairs will soon revert to their former channel...
Página 153 - Great and beneficial alterations in society, to be complete, must be produced within the society itself ; they cannot be the mere fabrication of its superiors, or of a few who deem themselves enlightened.
Página cclxvi - ... than by expressing my full conviction, that, independent of the prescribed duties which every qualified officer performs, there is no. person in a situation of any consequence who does not, both in the substance and manner of his conduct, do something every day in his life, which, as it operates upon the general interests of the empire through the feelings of the circle he controls or rules, has an unseen effect in strengthening or weakening the government by which he is employed.
Página lxxviii - Sultan not only with the most exact attention to the principles of moderation, justice and good faith, but have endeavoured by every practicable means to conciliate his confidence, and to mitigate his vindictive spirit. Some differences have occasionally arisen with respect to the boundaries of his territory bordering upon the confines of our possessions on the coast of Malabar, but the records of all the British Governments in India will...
Página 302 - The seeing no direct necessity for those invidious shackles, might have sufficed to make me break them. I know myself, however, to have been guided in the step by a positive and well-weighed policy. If our motives of action...
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