Lord CliveLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 149 páginas |
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... seems to have been shown at the time . The promoters of the scheme proved that spices , indigo , and silk could be bought in Malabâr for one - third of the price that we were giving in Aleppo or Alexan- dria ; but money came in slowly ...
... seems to have been shown at the time . The promoters of the scheme proved that spices , indigo , and silk could be bought in Malabâr for one - third of the price that we were giving in Aleppo or Alexan- dria ; but money came in slowly ...
Página xxvi
... seems to forget , in no small measure due to the piratical methods by which the cargoes were often obtained . Indeed , the commerce of India was now fast be- coming an object of national importance . So much Sir Thomas so that in 1615 ...
... seems to forget , in no small measure due to the piratical methods by which the cargoes were often obtained . Indeed , the commerce of India was now fast be- coming an object of national importance . So much Sir Thomas so that in 1615 ...
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... seems to have been chiefly prompted by the selfish fear that " in some manner or other they would have to pay for it . " Mr. Mill gives it as his opinion that , as early as 1689 , dominion and the increase of revenue were aimed at as ...
... seems to have been chiefly prompted by the selfish fear that " in some manner or other they would have to pay for it . " Mr. Mill gives it as his opinion that , as early as 1689 , dominion and the increase of revenue were aimed at as ...
Página lvi
... seems to have started with the expectation of being treated as an omrah , or noble of the first class , and was in consequence deeply mortified when he found himself received by the Emperor with studied contempt , and consigned to quite ...
... seems to have started with the expectation of being treated as an omrah , or noble of the first class , and was in consequence deeply mortified when he found himself received by the Emperor with studied contempt , and consigned to quite ...
Página lxii
... seems to have been to restore peace to his people , even at the cost of surrendering some of the haughtiest pretensions of his ancestors . The Mahratta prince Sâhu had been released by one of the claimants of the empire , and a party ...
... seems to have been to restore peace to his people , even at the cost of surrendering some of the haughtiest pretensions of his ancestors . The Mahratta prince Sâhu had been released by one of the claimants of the empire , and a party ...
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Página 109 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Página 143 - Since every Jack became a gentleman, There's many a gentle person made a Jack. Q. Eliz. Come, come, we know your meaning, brother Gloster ; You envy my advancement, and my friends' ; God grant we never may have need of you ! Glo.
Página 116 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Página 37 - ... their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and the door was instantly shut and locked upon them. Nothing in history or fiction...
Página 54 - The treasury of Bengal was thrown open to him. There were piled up, after the usage of Indian princes, immense masses of coin, among which might not seldom be detected the florins and byzants with which, before any European ship had turned the Cape of Good Hope, the Venetians purchased the stuffs and spices of the East. Clive walked between heaps of gold and silver, crowned with rubies and diamonds, and was at liberty to help himself.
Página 69 - Every servant of a British factor was armed with all the power of his master ; and his master was armed with all the power of the Company. Enormous fortunes were thus rapidly accumulated at Calcutta, while thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never under tyranny like this.
Página 47 - ... during a few hours shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council of war. The majority pronounced against fighting, and Clive declared his concurrence with the majority. Long afterwards, he said that he had never called but one council of war, and that if he had taken the advice of that council, the British would never have been masters of Bengal.
Página 38 - The day broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors, by piling up on each side the heaps of corpses on which the burning climate had already begun to do its loathsome work. When at length a passage was made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, staggered one by one out of the charnel-house. A pit was instantly dug. The dead bodies, a hundred and...
Página 47 - ... that if he had taken the advice of that council, the British would never have been masters of Bengal. But scarcely had the meeting broken up when he was himself again. He retired alone under the shade of some trees, and passed near an hour there in thought. He came back determined to put every thing to the hazard, and gave orders that all should be in readiness for passing the river on the morrow.
Página 37 - Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole.