| 1840 - 612 pages
...year and a half? Accordingly, during the five years which followed the departure of Clive from Bengal, the misgovernment of the English was carried to a point such as seems hardly compatible with the very existence of society. The Roman proconsul, who, in a year or... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 pages
...year and a half? Accordingly, during the five years which followed the departure of Clive from Bengal, the misgovernment of the English was carried to a point such as seems hardly compatible with the very existence of society. The Roman proconsul, who, in a year or... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 pages
...year and a half? Accordingly, during the five years which followed the departure of Clive from Bengal, the misgovernment of the English was carried to a point, such as seems hardly compatible with the very existence of society. The Roman proconsul, who, in a year or... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1844 - 1184 pages
...— not for their employers, but for themselves — a monopoly of almost the whole internal trade. They forced the natives to buy dear and sell cheap. They insulted with perfect impunity the tribunals, the police, and the fiscal authorities of the country. They covered... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...year and a half! Accordingly, during the five years which followed the departure of Clive from Bengal, sonal cowardice. Nature and education, had done their best lo seems hardly compatible with the very existence of society. The Roman proconsul, who, in a year or... | |
| 1852 - 780 pages
...year and a half! Accordingly, during the five years which followed the departure of Clive from Bengal, the misgovernment of the English was carried to a point, such as seems hardly compatible with the very existence of society. TheUoman proconsul, who, in a year or two,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...year and a half! Accordingly, during the five years which followed the departure of Clive from Bengal, the misgovernment of the English was carried to a point, such as seems hardly compatible with the very existence of society. The Roman proconsul, who, in a year or... | |
| John C. Cobden - 1853 - 528 pages
...obtained — not for their employers, but for themselves— a monopoly of almost the whole interim! trade; they forced the natives to buy dear and sell cheap ; they insulted with perfect impunity the tribunals, the police, and the fiscal authorities of the country ; they covered... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 510 pages
...governments, the taxes had uniformly been so equitably * "The misgovernment of the English was carried to ft point such as seemed hardly compatible with the existence of society. They forced the natives to bay dear and sell cheap. They insulted with impunity the tribunals, the police, and the fiscal authorities... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...year and a half! Accordingly, during the five years which followed the departure of Clive from Bengal, s haste, blustering and insulting as he retreated. seems hardly compatible with the very existence of society. The Roman proconsul, who, in a year or... | |
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