 Every servant of a British factor was armed with all the power of his master ; and his master was armed with all the power of the Company. Enormous fortunes were thus rapidly accumulated at Calcutta, while thirty millions of human beings were reduced...  The Glory and Shame of England - Page 443by Charles Edwards Lester - 1866Full view - About this book
 | 1840 - 662 pages
...thus rapidly accumulated at Calcutta, while thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the last extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed...little finger of the Company thicker than the loins of Surajah Dowlah. Under their old masters they had at least one resource : — when the evil became insupportable,... | |
 | 1840 - 612 pages
...armed with all the power of his master, and his master was armed with all the power of the Company. Enormous fortunes were thus rapidly accumulated at...thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the last extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never under tyranny... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 pages
...armed with all the power of his master, and his master was armed with all the power of the company. Enormous fortunes were thus rapidly accumulated at...thirty millions "of human beings were reduced to the last extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never under tyranny... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 pages
...armed with all the power of his master, and his master was armed with all the power of the Company. Enormous fortunes were thus rapidly accumulated at...thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the last extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never under tyranny... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1844 - 1184 pages
...armed with all the power of his master, and his master was armed with all the power of the company. Enormous fortunes were thus rapidly accumulated at...thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the last extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never under tyranny... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...power of his master, and his master was armed with all Ihe power of the Company. Enormous fortunes wert thus rapidly accumulated at Calcutta, while thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the last extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never under tyranny... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...armed with all the power of his master, and his master was armed with all the power of the Company. Enormous fortunes were thus rapidly accumulated at...thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the last extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never under tyranny... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...armed with all the power of his master, and his master was armed with all the power of the Company. ost mysterious. It is just at this crisis ma ihe last extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never under... | |
 | John C. Cobden - 1853 - 528 pages
...armed with all the power of his master, and his master was armed with all the power of the Company. Enormous fortunes were thus rapidly accumulated at...thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the last extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never under tyranny... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 pages
...endured by native Indians at the hands of their British masters, he says of the thirty millions who had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never...little finger of the Company thicker than the loins of Surajah Do»li." Of die parties in civil strife, not yet fatigued by long conflict, or instructed by... | |
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