Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review [microform], Volume 3Longmans, Green, 1885 |
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... British Empire in India . Even we , who detest paternal governments in general , shall admit that the duties of the government of India are , to a considerable extent , paternal . There , the superiority of the governors to the governed ...
... British Empire in India . Even we , who detest paternal governments in general , shall admit that the duties of the government of India are , to a considerable extent , paternal . There , the superiority of the governors to the governed ...
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... British in India to bring home to the door of every subject at once the ministrations of a new and totally unknown religion . " The govern- ment ought indeed to desire to propagate Christianity . But the extent to which they must do so ...
... British in India to bring home to the door of every subject at once the ministrations of a new and totally unknown religion . " The govern- ment ought indeed to desire to propagate Christianity . But the extent to which they must do so ...
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... British Government in India for distributing a small sum among the Catholic priests who minister to the spiritual wants of our Irish soldiers . Now , let us put a case to him . A Protestant gentleman is attended by a Catholic servant ...
... British Government in India for distributing a small sum among the Catholic priests who minister to the spiritual wants of our Irish soldiers . Now , let us put a case to him . A Protestant gentleman is attended by a Catholic servant ...
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... British empire in India , was born at the old seat of his ancestors on the twenty - ninth of September , 1725 . Some lineaments of the character of the man were early discerned in the child . There remain letters written by his ...
... British empire in India , was born at the old seat of his ancestors on the twenty - ninth of September , 1725 . Some lineaments of the character of the man were early discerned in the child . There remain letters written by his ...
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... British can- tonment , and to whom a British resident gives , under t'he name of advice , commands which are not to be disputed . There is still a Mogul , who is permitted to play at holding courts and receiving petitions , but who has ...
... British can- tonment , and to whom a British resident gives , under t'he name of advice , commands which are not to be disputed . There is still a Mogul , who is permitted to play at holding courts and receiving petitions , but who has ...
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Page 255 - But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength. Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first ; Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength.
Page 406 - House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly, in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every...
Page 402 - The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.
Page 4 - ... remarkable analogy to his mode of thinking, and indeed exercises great influence on his mode of thinking. His rhetoric, though often good of its kind, darkens and perplexes the logic which it should illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator, — a vast command of a kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import, — of...
Page 86 - Guzerat, in Berar, and in Tanjore. Nor did they, though they had become great sovereigns, therefore cease to be freebooters. They still retained the predatory habits of their forefathers. Every region which was not subject to their rule was wasted by their incursions. Wherever their kettle-drums were heard...
Page 403 - But neither the culprit nor his advocates attracted so much notice as the accusers. In the midst of the blaze of red drapery, a space had been fitted up with green benches and tables for the Commons. The managers, with Burke at their head, appeared in full dress. The collectors of gossip did not fail to remark that even Fox, generally so regardless of his appearance, had paid to the illustrious tribunal the compliment of wearing a bag and sword.
Page 318 - Parliament had been engaged in long and grave discussions on Asiatic affairs. The ministry of Lord North, in the session of 1773, introduced a measure which made a considerable change in the constitution of the Indian government. This law, known by the name of the Regulating Act, provided that the presidency of Bengal should exercise a control over the other possessions of the Company ; that the chief of that presidency should be styled Governor-General ; that he should be assisted by four Councillors...
Page 125 - English valour and English intelligence have done less to extend and to preserve our Oriental empire than English veracity. All that we could have gained by imitating the doublings, the evasions, the fictions, the perjuries which have been employed against us, is as nothing when compared with what we have gained by being the one power in India on whose word reliance can be placed. No oath which superstition can devise, no hostage however precious, inspires a hundredth part of the confidence which...
Page 401 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 141 - The servants of the Company, obtained, not for their employers, but for themselves, & monopoly of almost the whole internal trade. They forced the natives to buy dear and to sell cheap. They insulted with impunity the tribunals, the police, and the fiscal authorities of the country. They covered with their protection a set of native dependents who ranged through the provinces, spreading desolation and terror wherever they appeared. Every servant of a British factor was armed with all the power of...