 | John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 pàgines
...matter ; the house of commons having resolved, iu 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1887 - 460 pàgines
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 | Macmillan & Co, James Foster - 1891 - 738 pàgines
...By JOHN MALCOLM LUDLOW, Barrister-at-Law, author of ' British India, its races and its history '. " Forasmuch as to pursue schemes of conquest and extension...dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of nation. . ." — Charter of 1784, 24 Geo. iii., sess. 2, c. 25, s. 34 ; Charter... | |
 | Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall - 1893 - 320 pàgines
...dominion. Pitt's Act of 1784 was emphatic in this sense; and in 1793 another Act declared that — 'Forasmuch as to pursue schemes of conquest and extension...dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of this nation, it shall not be lawful for the Governor-General in Council to... | |
 | Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall - 1894 - 438 pàgines
...dominion. Pitt's Act of 1784 was emphatic in this sense; and in 1793 another Act declared that — ' Forasmuch as to pursue schemes of conquest and extension...dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of this nation, it shall not be lawful for the GovernorGeneral in Council to... | |
 | Robert Watson Frazer - 1896 - 440 pàgines
...territories acquired by Clive and consolidated by Hastings. The wording of the Act was peremptory : " Whereas 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 . . . it shall not be lawful for the Governor-General and Council... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1897 - 358 pàgines
...subject " — no wonder, indeed, for the very first words of the preamble are these : " And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation : Be it therefore enacted — " Further quotation is unnecessary;... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - 1898 - 790 pàgines
...would have secured her trade. An Act of Parliament in 1793, when Pitt was Prime Minister, declared that "to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion...are measures repugnant to the wish, the honor, and the policy of this nation." It would be heresy, perhaps, now to doubt whether the framers of that Act... | |
 | Henry Morris - 1898 - 78 pàgines
...conduct. Acting on this principle, he supported Sir Philip Francis's motion on April 5, 1805, "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." He endeavoured to uphold the Court of Directors in their action,... | |
 | 1899 - 916 pàgines
...Parliament had only lately, in 1793 (Section 42 of 33 George III. c 52), expressed the pious opinion 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," and the civil officers in daily conflict with famines, and... | |
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And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honor, and policy of this nation... 
