Lord Clive: The Foundation of British Rule in IndiaT. Fisher Unwin, 1899 - 318 pàgines |
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Lord Clive: The Foundation of British Rule in India Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot Visualització completa - 1899 |
Lord Clive: The Foundation of British Rule in India Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot Visualització completa - 1899 |
Lord Clive: The Foundation of British Rule in India Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot Visualització completa - 1899 |
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Pàgina 133 - The servants of the Company obtained — not for their employers, but for themselves — a monopoly of almost the whole internal trade. They forced the natives to buy dear and sell cheap.
Pàgina 314 - That Robert Lord Clive did at the same time render " great and meritorious services to his country.
Pàgina 205 - I can call my own except my paternal fortune of £,500 per annum, and which has been in the family for ages past. But upon this I am content to live, and perhaps I shall find more real content of mind and happiness therein than in the trembling affluence of an unsettled fortune.
Pàgina 109 - I observe, in some measure engaged the public attention ; but much more may yet in time be done, if the Company will exert themselves in the manner the importance of their present possessions and future prospects deserves. I have represented to them in the strongest terms the expediency of sending out and keeping up constantly such a force as will enable them to embrace the first opportunity of further aggrandizing themselves ; and I dare pronounce, from a thorough knowledge of this country government...
Pàgina 205 - My defence will be heard at that bar ; but before I sit down, I have one request to make to the House, — that, when they come to decide upon my honour, they will not forget their own.
Pàgina ii - Volumes. 1. SIR WALTER RALEGH ; the British Dominion of the West. By MARTIN AS HUME. 2. SIR THOMAS MAITLAND; the Mastery of the Mediterranean. By WALTER FREWEN LORD. 3. JOHN CABOT AND HIS SONS ; the Discovery of North America. By C. RAYMOND BEAZLEY, MA 4. EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD ; the Colonisation of South Australia and New Zealand. By R. GARNETT, CB, LL.D.
Pàgina 192 - Commons for leave to bring in a bill " for the better regulation of the affairs of the East India Company and of their servants in India, and for the due administration of justice in Bengal.
Pàgina 289 - But to be called, after sixteen years have elapsed, to account for my conduct in this manner, and after an uninterrupted enjoyment of my property, to be questioned and considered as obtaining it unwarrantably, is hard indeed ! and a treatment I should not think the British Senate capable of.
Pàgina 274 - 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 ; anarchy and corruption will again prevail, and, elate with a new victory, be too headstrong for any future efforts of government.
Pàgina 109 - Sir, Suffer an admirer of yours at this distance to congratulate himself on the glory and advantage which are likely to accrue to the nation by your being at its head, and at the same time to return his most grateful thanks for the distinguished manner you have been pleased to speak of his successes in these parts, far indeed beyond his deservings. The close attention you bestow on the affairs of the British nation in general has induced me to trouble you with a few particulars relative to India,...