Journal of the East India Association, Part 39, Volumes 5-6

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The Association, 1871
"Summary of the operations of the East India Association from its foundation": v. 8, p. [179]-187.
 

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Page 61 - In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers : Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. " It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Page 59 - The most distinguished member of the aristocracy who ever governed India was Lord Wellesley. What was his Eton reputation ? What was his Oxford reputation ? But I must mention- — I cannot refrain from mentioning—another noble and distinguished Governor-General.
Page 6 - In the Vyavahara-Madhaviya. Mr. Burnell renders the same verse :— "A member of a family though he be ignorant, who supports his brother while learning science, shall get a share of the wealth acquired by that brother by learning."!
Page 68 - Every such appointment shall be made subject to such rules as may be prescribed by the GovernorGeneral in Council and sanctioned by the Secretary of State in Council with the concurrence of a majority of votes at a meeting of the Council of India.
Page 12 - Crown and the peers have rights in taxation as well as yourselves; rights which they will claim, which they will exercise, whenever the principle can be supported by power.
Page 183 - You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain ; and you have often given me pain, not from the power of what you said, but from seeing your intention.
Page 40 - Those of our descendants shall follow a righteous path, who shall reverently present us with cakes at Gaya. May he be born in our race who shall give us, on the thirteenth of Bhadrapada and Magda, milk, honey,, and clarified butter.
Page 15 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal: this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Page 59 - It seems to me that there never was a fact proved by a larger mass of evidence, or a more unvaried experience than this : that men who distinguish themselves in their youth above their contemporaries almost always keep, to the end of their lives, the start which they have gained.
Page 59 - Look at the list of wranglers and of junior optimes, and I will venture to say, that for one man who has in after, life distinguished himself among the junior optimes, you will find twenty among the wranglers.

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