The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 117A. Constable, 1863 |
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Page 3
... remained unbroken . Thirty - five great feuda- tories of the Punjaub , and 15,000 men , laid down their arms . Finally , the Affghans , who had been called into alliance by the Sikhs , were chased with ignominy ' beyond Peshawur . The ...
... remained unbroken . Thirty - five great feuda- tories of the Punjaub , and 15,000 men , laid down their arms . Finally , the Affghans , who had been called into alliance by the Sikhs , were chased with ignominy ' beyond Peshawur . The ...
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... remained but that complete incorporation with the rest of our dominions , which could alone make our power effectual , by rendering our authority complete , We pass from this case of annexation with only one remark . The history of the ...
... remained but that complete incorporation with the rest of our dominions , which could alone make our power effectual , by rendering our authority complete , We pass from this case of annexation with only one remark . The history of the ...
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... remained to it but lodgings in a prison , and the shadow of an illustrious name . When the British army under Sir John Malcolm in the Mahratta war of 1818 defeated the Peishwah , captured his person , and annexed his country to the ...
... remained to it but lodgings in a prison , and the shadow of an illustrious name . When the British army under Sir John Malcolm in the Mahratta war of 1818 defeated the Peishwah , captured his person , and annexed his country to the ...
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... remained one of the two great reasons on account of which such value had been placed on the political position of the Company as an intermediate body between the Crown and the Government of India . Their commerce was gone ; their fleets ...
... remained one of the two great reasons on account of which such value had been placed on the political position of the Company as an intermediate body between the Crown and the Government of India . Their commerce was gone ; their fleets ...
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... remained as difficult a problem as in the days of Pitt . Other difficulties , which were purely imaginary , in the way of transferring to the Crown the nominal as well as the real government of India , had grown up out of confusion of ...
... remained as difficult a problem as in the days of Pitt . Other difficulties , which were purely imaginary , in the way of transferring to the Crown the nominal as well as the real government of India , had grown up out of confusion of ...
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Page 472 - We declare it to be our royal will and pleasure that none be in any wise favoured, none molested or disquieted by reason of their religious faith or observances, but that all shall alike enjoy the equal and impartial protection of the law; and we do strictly charge and enjoin all those who may be in authority under us, that they abstain from all interference with the religious belief or worship of any of our subjects, on pain of our highest displeasure.
Page 481 - The Crown of England stands forth the unquestioned ruler and paramount power in all India, and is for the first time brought face to face with its feudatories. There is a reality in the suzerainty of the Sovereign of England which has never existed before, and which is not only felt but eagerly acknowledged by the Chiefs.
Page 39 - Council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India; and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone.
Page 502 - the Bible is none other than the voice of Him that sitteth upon the throne ! Every book of it, every chapter of it, every verse of it, every word of it, every syllable of it (where are we to Stop?), every letter of it, is the direct utterance of the Most High...
Page 475 - Other conquerors, when they have succeeded in overcoming resistance, have excepted a few persons as still deserving of punishment, but have, with a generous policy, extended their clemency to the great body of the people. ' You have acted upon a different principle ; you have reserved a few as deserving of special favour, and you have struck, with what they will feel as the severest of punishment, the mass of the inhabitants of the country.
Page 81 - They call me nothing but Jonathan ; and I said, I believed they would leave me Jonathan as they found me, and that I never knew a ministry do anything for those whom they make companions of their pleasures ; and I believe you will find it so ; but I care not.
Page 558 - Their posterior developement is so marked that anatomists have assigned to that part the character of a third lobe ; it is peculiar to the genus Homo, and equally peculiar is the "posterior horn of the " lateral ventricle " and the hippocampus minor which characterise the hind lobe of each hemisphere.
Page 566 - ... if any process of physical causation can be discovered by which the genera and families of ordinary animals have been produced, that process of causation is amply sufficient to account for the origin of Man.
Page 481 - Be assured that nothing shall disturb the engagement thus made to you, so long as your House is loyal to the Crown and faithful to the conditions of the Treaties, grants or engagements which record its obligations to the British Government.
Page 482 - The proposed measure will not debar the Government of India from stepping in to set right such serious abuses in a Native Government as may threaten any part of the country with anarchy or disturbance, nor from assuming temporary charge of a Native State when there shall be sufficient reason to do so.