India and Her Neighbours, Díl 6

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W.H. Allen & Company, 1878 - Počet stran: 413
 

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Strana 142 - No mob attacked by regular soldiers was ever more completely routed. The little band of Frenchmen who alone ventured to confront the English, were swept down the stream of fugitives. In an hour the forces of Surajah Dowlah were dispersed, never to reassemble.
Strana 352 - Providence, internal tranquillity shall be restored, it is our earnest desire to stimulate the peaceful industry of India, to promote works of public utility and improvement, and to administer its government for the benefit of all our subjects resident therein. In their prosperity will be our strength ; in their contentment our security ; and in their gratitude our best reward.
Strana 378 - ... soon ; THAT THE POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGES OF ESTABLISHING A SECOND ROUTE WOULD AT ANY TIME BE CONSIDERABLE, AND MIGHT, UNDER POSSIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES, BE EXCEEDINGLY GREAT; AND THAT IT WOULD BE WORTH THE WHILE OF THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT TO MAKE AN EFFORT TO SECURE THEM, CONSIDERING THE MODERATE PECUNIARY RISK WHICH THEY WOULD INCUR.
Strana 366 - The wretched mother did not long survive her child ; nature was exhausted in the ravings of despair ; she refused food ; and her remains in a few days followed those of her daughter to the funeral pyre. Even the ferocious Khan, when the instrument of his infamy, Ajit, reported the issue, received him with contempt, and spurned him from his presence, tauntingly asking " if this were the boasted Rajpoot valour ?" But the wily traitor had to encounter language far more bitter from his political adversary,...
Strana 207 - ... heroic or generous mind. It is wonderful that the ministers of your government should have neglected to instruct your majesty in the rules of rectitude and honour.
Strana 140 - Hole. The day broke — the day which was to decide the fate of India. At sunrise the army of the Nabob, pouring through many openings of the camp, began to move towards the grove where the English lay. Forty thousand infantry, armed with firelocks, pikes, swords, bows and arrows, covered the plain. They were accompanied by fifty pieces of ordnance of the largest size, each tugged by a long team of white oxen, and each pushed on from...
Strana 206 - Distinctions of colour are of his ordination. It is he who gives existence. In your temples, to his name the voice is raised in prayer : in a house of images, where the bell is shaken, still he is the object of adoration. To vilify the religion or customs of other men, is to set at naught the pleasure of the Almighty. When we deface a picture, we naturally incur the resentment of the painter; and justly has the poet said, Presume not to arraign or scrutinize the various works of Power Divine.
Strana 122 - Jodhpur, and Uddipur without subduing them. Aurangzeb's total revenue amounted to eighty million pounds. 1661. Bombay ceded to England as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza, but it was not delivered until 1665.
Strana 352 - In their prosperity will be our strength, in their contentment our security, and in their gratitude our best reward. And may the God of all power grant to us, and to those in authority under us, strength to carry out these our wishes for the good of our people.
Strana 32 - It might be argued, in opposition to many unfavourable testimonies, that those who have known the Indians longest have always the best opinion of them ; but this is rather a compliment to human nature than to them, since it is true of every other people. It is more in point, that all persons who have retired from India think better of the people they have left, after comparing them with others, even of the most justly admired nations...

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