Lord LawrenceClarendon Press, 1892 - 216 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 119 - Finally, the Chief Commissioner would recommend that such measures and policy, having been deliberately determined on by the supreme Government, be openly avowed and acted upon throughout the empire ; so that there may be no diversities of practice, no isolated, tentative, or conflicting efforts, which are indeed the surest means of exciting distrust ; so that the people may see that we have no sudden or sinister designs ; and so that we may exhibit that harmony and uniformity of conduct which befits...
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 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 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 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 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 164 - Companies were started for every imaginable purpose — banks and financial associations, land reclamation, trading, cotton cleaning, pressing and spinning companies, coffee companies, shipping and steamer companies, hotel companies, livery stables and veterinary companies, and companies for making bricks and tiles.
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.
الصفحة 135 - Courts, and others who would chafe at our stricter and more formal rule, live there contentedly ; and should the day come when India shall be threatened by an external enemy, or when the interests of England elsewhere may require that her Eastern Empire shall incur more than ordinary risk, one of our best mainstays will be found in these Native States.