Miscellanea Critica: Comment Upon Contemporaneous Literature and Current Topics Relating to India, 1808-1858, Volume 4Wm. H. Allen, 1840 |
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... character of a statesman , will find ignorance regarding them to be any longer safe or creditable . We shall ... characters which all who run may read much injustice has already been done to the subject by discussing it in a cypher which ...
... character of a statesman , will find ignorance regarding them to be any longer safe or creditable . We shall ... characters which all who run may read much injustice has already been done to the subject by discussing it in a cypher which ...
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... character of a states- man qualified to lay his hand upon the helm of our Indian empire . It appears to us that there is sufficient moral evidence to show , first , that Shah Shooja , as the head of the powerful and sacred family of ...
... character of a states- man qualified to lay his hand upon the helm of our Indian empire . It appears to us that there is sufficient moral evidence to show , first , that Shah Shooja , as the head of the powerful and sacred family of ...
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... character of Shah Shooja . It has been the habit of those who have blamed Lord Auckland for taking up his cause , to describe him as in the great- est degree weak and timid . This appears to be entirely gratuitous . His history affords ...
... character of Shah Shooja . It has been the habit of those who have blamed Lord Auckland for taking up his cause , to describe him as in the great- est degree weak and timid . This appears to be entirely gratuitous . His history affords ...
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... character - letting loose their troops [ which were all of the Ghilgie race , though they are themselves Dooraunees , and Can- dahar is the chief city of that tribe ] to plunder the country . They have ruined trade by their exactions ...
... character - letting loose their troops [ which were all of the Ghilgie race , though they are themselves Dooraunees , and Can- dahar is the chief city of that tribe ] to plunder the country . They have ruined trade by their exactions ...
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... character , which a long series of revolutions and perpe- tual civil dissensions -- patched up by hasty reconciliations and in- congruous alliances , to be again dissolved with increased violence at the end of a few months , or even ...
... character , which a long series of revolutions and perpe- tual civil dissensions -- patched up by hasty reconciliations and in- congruous alliances , to be again dissolved with increased violence at the end of a few months , or even ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
administration affairs Affghanistan Affghans Akber Alexander Burnes Ameers appears authority Barukzye Beloochies Bengal army better Bhawulpore Bombay Brahminical British Government British India Cabul Calcutta Candahar character charge chiefs Christian civil command connexion conquest Court of Directors Delhi dominion Dost Mahomed Dost Mahomed Khan doubt duty East Elphinstone empire England English existing fact favour feel force foreign Governor-General hands Herat Hindoo Hindostan honour hostile Hyderabad Indus interests Khyrpore land less Lord Auckland Lord Ellenborough Mahomed Khan Mahomedan Mahratta Major Outram Meer Nusseer Meer Roostum Meerut ment military Morad Mussulman mutiny nation native never Nusseer Mahomed opinion Oude Parliament Persia persons Peshawur political position possess present princes provinces regard regiment religion religious rendered revenue Revised Treaty revolt rulers Runjeet Singh says Seikhs sepoys Shah Shooja Sir Charles Napier soldiers sovereign subjects Sukkur territory tion troops turban Upper Scinde Warren whole
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Página 520 - Let me most seriously caution all travellers, who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer.
Página 457 - And be it enacted, that the superintendence, direction, and control of the whole civil and military Government of all the said territories and revenues in India shall be and is hereby invested in a Governor-General and Counsellors, to be styled "The Governor General of India in Council.
Página 361 - Forasmuch as to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of this nation...
Página 388 - Aurora suis rubra colorat equis! namque ubi mortifero iacta est fax ultima lecto, uxorum fusis stat pia turba comis, et certamen habent leti, quae viva sequatur 20 coniugium: pudor est non licuisse mori. ardent victrices et flammae pectora praebent, imponuntque suis ora perusta viris.
Página 359 - Third Class: — Treaties offensive and defensive; states mostly tributary, acknowledging the supremacy of, and promising subordinate co-operation to, the British Government : but their princes are supreme rulers in their own territories.
Página 363 - The usual remedy of a bad government in India is a quiet revolution in the palace, or a violent one by rebellion, or foreign conquests. But the presence of a British force cuts off every chance of remedy, by supporting the prince on the throne against every foreign and domestic enemy.
Página 333 - ... created a British peer, by the title of baron of Rippon, marquis of Beverley, and duke of Dover; and the office of secretary at war, vacant by the resignation of Henry St. John, was bestowed upon Robert Walpole, a gentleman who had rendered himself considerable in the house of commons, and whose conduct we shall have occasion to mention more at large in the sequel. About the same time, a proclamation was issued for distributing prizes, in certain proportions, to the different officers and seamen...
Página 520 - The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely opinions, but facts ; for I actually passed three carts, broken down, in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.
Página 409 - Fight against them who believe not in God, nor in the last day, and forbid not that which God and his apostle have forbidden, and profess not the true religion, of those unto whom the scriptures have been delivered, until they pay tribute by right of subjection, and they be reduced low.
Página 453 - The lower class are to the full as good and as intelligent as with us ; indeed, they ave much more versed in the affairs of life, plead their causes better, make more intelligent witnesses, and have many virtues : but these good qualities are not in the same proportion in the higher classes ; they cannot bear prosperity ; it causes them to degenerate, especially if born to greatness.