Orations: Orators of Great Britain and IrelandP.F. Collier and son, 1900 |
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Página 117
... Tamerlane - the India Company came to be what it is a great empire , carrying on subordinately a great commerce : it became that thing which was sup- posed by the Roman law irreconcilable to reason and pro- priety eundem negotiatorem et ...
... Tamerlane - the India Company came to be what it is a great empire , carrying on subordinately a great commerce : it became that thing which was sup- posed by the Roman law irreconcilable to reason and pro- priety eundem negotiatorem et ...
Página 117
... Tamerlane - the India Company came to be what it is — a great empire , carrying on subordinately a great commerce : it became that thing which was sup- posed by the Roman law irreconcilable to reason and pro- priety — eundem ...
... Tamerlane - the India Company came to be what it is — a great empire , carrying on subordinately a great commerce : it became that thing which was sup- posed by the Roman law irreconcilable to reason and pro- priety — eundem ...
Página 154
... Tamer- lane . These Tartars did not establish themselves on the ruins of the Hindus . Their conquests were over the other Mohammedans ; for Tamerlane invaded Hindustan , as he invaded other countries , in the character of the great re ...
... Tamer- lane . These Tartars did not establish themselves on the ruins of the Hindus . Their conquests were over the other Mohammedans ; for Tamerlane invaded Hindustan , as he invaded other countries , in the character of the great re ...
Página 155
... Tamerlane , it was on these capital stipula- tions that the emperor should marry a daughter of Rajah Cheit Sing's house ; that the head of this house should be in perpetuity governors of the citadel of Agra , and anoint the king at his ...
... Tamerlane , it was on these capital stipula- tions that the emperor should marry a daughter of Rajah Cheit Sing's house ; that the head of this house should be in perpetuity governors of the citadel of Agra , and anoint the king at his ...
Página 156
... Tamerlane , however he may be indicated by the odious names of Tartar and conqueror , was no barbarian -that the people , who submitted to him , did not submit with the abject submission of slaves to the sword of a conqueror , but ...
... Tamerlane , however he may be indicated by the odious names of Tartar and conqueror , was no barbarian -that the people , who submitted to him , did not submit with the abject submission of slaves to the sword of a conqueror , but ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
abuse accused act of Parliament affairs America appointed arbitrary power Asia authority banyan Bengal body bribery bribes British Calcutta called character charge charter circumstances colonies committee Commons Company's conduct constitution corruption Cossim Ally Khan council court of directors covenant crimes criminal Debi Sing declared defence dewan Dinagepore duty East India Company emolument empire England English evil exercise Genghiz Khan gentlemen Gentoo give governor Gunga Govin Sing hands Hastings Holwell honor House Ireland judge justice kingdom land liberty Lord Clive lords lordships Mahomed Reza Major Calliaud manner master means ment Mogul Mogul empire Mohammedan Munny Begum Nabob nation native nature never Nundcomar obliged opinion oppression peculation persons prince principles province punishment Rajah received religion revenue revolution Reza Khan servants situation sovereign spirit Tamerlane things tion trade transaction trust tyranny Warren Hastings whole zemindars
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Página 96 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Página 56 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do.
Página 36 - Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole : and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Página 40 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Página 6 - To overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never...
Página 42 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources, of descent, of form of government, of religion in the northern provinces, of manners in the southern, of education, of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up. It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies, and increased with the increase of their wealth: a spirit that, unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not...
Página 34 - ... nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something...
Página 42 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Curdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Página 14 - That God and nature put into our hands !" 1 know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife — to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering, roasting, and eating ; literally, my lords, eating the mangled victims of his barbarous battles ! Such horrible notions shock every precept of religion,...
Página 353 - Warren Hastings has not left substance enough in India to nourish such another delinquent. " My lords, is it a prosecutor you want ? You have before you the Commons of Great Britain as prosecutors ; and I believe, my lords, that the sun in his beneficent progress round the world does not behold a more glorious sight than that of men, separated from a remote people by the material bounds and barriers of nature, united by the bond of a social and moral community — all the Commons of England resenting...