“The” Life of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, Bart. and K.C.B., Late Governor of Madras: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Private Papers, Volume 2Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830 |
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Pagina 53
... supplies , or any other matter , we find it difficult to inter- fere in a satisfactory manner ; and from the absence of a complete and direct control in either government much confusion and abuse arises , and the national character ...
... supplies , or any other matter , we find it difficult to inter- fere in a satisfactory manner ; and from the absence of a complete and direct control in either government much confusion and abuse arises , and the national character ...
Pagina 63
... supply of men calculated to carry on investigations into the revenue , and into all the details of the local civil administration ; and as it is only in the rayetwar districts that the requisite knowledge can be ac- quired SIR THOMAS ...
... supply of men calculated to carry on investigations into the revenue , and into all the details of the local civil administration ; and as it is only in the rayetwar districts that the requisite knowledge can be ac- quired SIR THOMAS ...
Pagina 92
... supply him with them . We could not equip his force like an Indian army ; but there would be no impossibility in sending him three or four thousand bullocks . The expense would be great - five or six lacs of rupees ; but this is little ...
... supply him with them . We could not equip his force like an Indian army ; but there would be no impossibility in sending him three or four thousand bullocks . The expense would be great - five or six lacs of rupees ; but this is little ...
Pagina 95
... supply of water - casks and carpenters ' nails ; whilst his advice , whether solicited or not , was on every occasion given with the freedom which his high character entitled him to use . It is but justice to the nobleman who then held ...
... supply of water - casks and carpenters ' nails ; whilst his advice , whether solicited or not , was on every occasion given with the freedom which his high character entitled him to use . It is but justice to the nobleman who then held ...
Pagina 96
... supply of flat - boats , which were built for the purpose . The preparation of such a number as would be necessary for four or five thousand troops , would require some months . The distance between Calcutta and Madras making it nearly ...
... supply of flat - boats , which were built for the purpose . The preparation of such a number as would be necessary for four or five thousand troops , would require some months . The distance between Calcutta and Madras making it nearly ...
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“The” Life of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, Bart. and K.C.B ..., Volume 2 George Robert Gleig Volledige weergave - 1830 |
“The” Life of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, Bart. and K.C.B ..., Volume 2 George Robert Gleig Volledige weergave - 1830 |
The Life of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, Bart. and K.C.B., Late ..., Volume 2 George Robert Gleig Volledige weergave - 1831 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 284 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Pagina 287 - The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Pagina 288 - The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot be a better security against a superabundant population.
Pagina 27 - A free press and the dominion of strangers are things which are quite incompatible, and which cannot long exist together. For what is the first duty of a free press ? It is to deliver the country from a foreign yoke...
Pagina 287 - The market price of labour is the price which is really paid for it, from the natural operation of the proportion of the supply to the demand; labour is dear when it is scarce and cheap when it is plentiful. However much the market price of labour may deviate from its natural price, it has, like commodities, a tendency to conform to it.
Pagina 227 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Pagina 412 - Munro, in words used many years since, that any expense which may be incurred for this object, 'will be amply repaid by the improvement of the country ; for the general diffusion of knowledge is inseparably followed by more orderly habits, by increasing industry, by a taste for the comforts of life, by exertion to acquire them, and by the growing prosperity of the people.
Pagina 409 - The state of education here exhibited, low as it is, compared with that of our own country, is higher than it was in most European countries at no very distant period.
Pagina 292 - As the value of all foreign goods is measured by the quantity of the produce of our land and labour, which is given in exchange for them, we should have no greater value, if by the discovery of new markets, we obtained double the quantity of foreign goods in exchange for a given quantity of ours.
Pagina 292 - No EXTENSION of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities, and therefore the sum of enjoyments.