 | Sir Edwin Arnold - 1865 - 414 pągines
...seriously impressed with the wisdom and necessity of that solemn declaration of the Legislature, that to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion...in India, are measures repugnant to ' the wish, the honour, and policy' of the nation." Yet statesmen were just as inconsistent as stockholders ! Among... | |
 | Hastings Fraser - 1865 - 544 pągines
...course of my present reflections, a question has originated from it which I think proper here to state. To pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India, are declared in the preamble to the clause to be measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1867 - 450 pągines
...part of the act to your Lordships. [Mr. Burke here read 2M Geo. HI. cap. 25, sect. 34.] " And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion...wish, the honor, and policy of this nation, be it therefore further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall not be lawful for the Governor-General... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - 1867 - 516 pągines
...defensive, not interfering, pacific, according to the full spirit of that enactment declaring that ' to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion...in India, are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of the nation. The impossibility of adhering to this beautiful theory was soon... | |
 | Joseph Parkes - 1867 - 602 pągines
...1782, and recognised and adopted by the legislature in subsequent Acts of Parliament, namely, ' that to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy, of this nation.' His speech produced complimentary expressions on the part... | |
 | Henry Beveridge - 1867 - 984 pągines
...all political parties, it had been tkm. " * embodied in an act of parliament, which declared, that " to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant t<>rlwish, the honour, and the policy of this nation." This declaration standing unrepealed, furnished... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1869 - 440 pągines
...of the act to your Lordships. [Mr. Burke here read 24th Creo. III. cap. 25, sect. 34.] " And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion...wish, the honor, and policy of this nation, be it therefore further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall not be lawful for the Governor-General... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1880 - 646 pągines
...inexpediency of any further extension of its territories, and both the Acts of 1784 and 1792 declared ' that to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the policy, and the honour of this nation,' and enacted that it should not be lawful for the Governor-General... | |
 | 1881 - 814 pągines
...Charter act,* but the instructions • The wording of it, too, was sufficiently precise — The 42nd clause ran as follows :— " And forasmuch as to pursue...this Nation : Be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the Govemor-Ceneral in Council of Fort William aforesaid, without the express Command... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 pągines
...mutter ; the house of commons having resolved, in 1782, "that to pursue schemes of conquest and extent of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honor and the policy of this nation." But others have argued, and apparently on pretty good grounds, that, having... | |
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