 ... generation pay the whole cost of public works for the benefit of the future, instead of making the political like all other machinery, and distributing the weight so as to make a small power lift a large weight by the aid of time. The results of trying...  Journal of the Society of Arts - Page 3021871Full view - About this book
 | 1871 - 596 pages
...India's shoulders, and all home charges also, though the British exchequer contributes nearly 3,000,000Z. to the expenses of the colonies. The crushing and...time, from India to England, of above 500,000,000Z., at the lowest computation, in principal alone, which with interest would be some thousands of millions.... | |
 | Ainslie Thomas Embree, Stephen N. Hay, William Theodore De Bary - 1988 - 476 pages
...the want of intelligent adaptation of financial machinery, and of much reckless expenditure; ending in financial embarrassments, and deep discontent of the people. Materially. The political drain,3 up to this time, from India to England, of above £500,000,000, at the lowest computation,... | |
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