Lord Lawrence and the Reconstruction of India Under the Crown

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Clarendon Press, 1892 - 219 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 111 - Mill, were undertaken by him some four years after his retirement from official life, in consequence of the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown...
الصفحة 25 - If there be a paradise on earth, It is this, it is this, it is this.
الصفحة 46 - The rule of the British is in favour of the agriculturist. If your lands are heavily assessed tell me so, and I will relieve you : if you have any grievance let me know it and I will try to remove it ; if you have any plans let me know them and I will give you my advice : if you will excite rebellion, as I live I will severely punish you.
الصفحة 81 - As we rode down to the disarming," said Herbert Edwardes, " a very few chiefs and yeomen of the country attended us, and I remember, judging from their faces, that they came to see which way the tide would turn. As we rode back friends were as thick as summer flies, and levies began from that m.oment to come in.
الصفحة 120 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
الصفحة 86 - Pray only reflect on the whole history of India. Where have we failed when we acted vigorously ? Where have we succeeded when guided by timid counsels ? Clive, 1 with twelve hundred men, fought at Plassey, in opposition to the advice of his leading officers, beat forty thousand men, and conquered Bengal.
الصفحة 112 - He had, he said, lived long enough and seen sufficient to teach him that 'the best reward any man can have is the feeling that he has done his duty to the best of his ability.
الصفحة 150 - The Home Government may do this. Parliament may say what it thinks proper. But, of my own free will, I will not move, knowing, as I do, that I am right in the course which has been adopted. Did ever anyone hear...
الصفحة 104 - There is a Judge over both them and us. Inasmuch as we have been preserved from impending destruction by His mercy alone, we should be merciful to others ; reflecting that if He were to be extreme to mark what we have done, and still do amiss, we should forfeit that protection from on High which alone maintains us in India.
الصفحة 118 - Christian things done in a Christian way will never, the Chief Commissioner is convinced, alienate the heathen. About such things there are qualities which do not provoke nor excite distrust, nor harden to resistance. It is when unchristian things are done in the name of Christianity, or when Christian things are done in an unchristian way, that mischief and danger are occasioned.

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