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Page 40
... protect them in making themselves rich ; and a government which attempts more than this is precisely the government which is likely to perform less . Governments do not and cannot support the people . We have no miraculous powers : we ...
... protect them in making themselves rich ; and a government which attempts more than this is precisely the government which is likely to perform less . Governments do not and cannot support the people . We have no miraculous powers : we ...
Page 119
... protection and good legislation . We come then to the great question . Is it desirable to retain the Company as an organ of government for India ? I think that it is desirable . The question is , I acknowledge , beset with difficulties ...
... protection and good legislation . We come then to the great question . Is it desirable to retain the Company as an organ of government for India ? I think that it is desirable . The question is , I acknowledge , beset with difficulties ...
Page 120
... If India is to be a de- pendency of England , to be at war with our enemies , to be at peace with our allies , to be protected by the English navy from maritime aggression , to have a portion of the 120 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA .
... If India is to be a de- pendency of England , to be at war with our enemies , to be at peace with our allies , to be protected by the English navy from maritime aggression , to have a portion of the 120 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA .
Page 126
... protect them . Society was a chaos . Its restless and shifting elements formed themselves every mo- ment into some new combination , which the next moment dissolved . In the course of a single generation a hundred dynasties grew up ...
... protect them . Society was a chaos . Its restless and shifting elements formed themselves every mo- ment into some new combination , which the next moment dissolved . In the course of a single generation a hundred dynasties grew up ...
Page 128
... protection of the government which they laboured to destroy . I see a large body of civil and military functionaries re- sembling in nothing but capacity and valour those adven- turers who , seventy years ago , came hither , laden with ...
... protection of the government which they laboured to destroy . I see a large body of civil and military functionaries re- sembling in nothing but capacity and valour those adven- turers who , seventy years ago , came hither , laden with ...
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