The Asiatic Quarterly Review, 第 3-4 卷Swan Sonnenshein & Company, 1887 |
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第 196 頁 - Nizam. Wherever we spread ourselves, particularly if we aggrandize ourselves at the expense of the Mahrattas, we increase this evil. We throw out of employment and of means of subsistence, ;all who have hitherto managed the revenue, commanded or served in the armies, or have plundered the country.
第 103 頁 - Ganges-water, and a woman, murdered soon after the Pundit, lay within my sleeping tent. The sward had grown over the whole, and not the slightest sign of its ever having been broken was to be seen.
第 196 頁 - We throw out of employment and of means of subsistence, all who have hitherto managed the revenue, commanded or served in the armies, or have plundered the country. These people become additional enemies at the same time that by the extension of our territory our means of supporting our government and of defending ourselves are proportionably decreased.
第 293 頁 - Hastings accordingly sold Korah and Allahabad to the Nawab of Oudh for fifty lakhs, at the same time as he cancelled the outgoing of twenty-six lakhs tribute for Bengal. He told the Directors: ' I have been happily furnished with an accidental concourse of circumstances to relieve the Company in the distress of their affairs.' He proceeded to deal with the affairs of another 'idol' of English creation, this time less willingly (under orders from home). The Bengal Nawab's revenues were to be cut down...
第 284 頁 - Those who look on his character without favour or malevolence will pronounce that, in the two great elements of all social virtue, in respect for the rights of others, and in sympathy for the sufferings of others, he was deficient.
第 344 頁 - ... to say, a bequest to a person not in existence at the time of the testator's death of something which is less than the whole interest that remains to the testator in the thing bequeathed.
第 21 頁 - We trust that the present occasion may tend to unite in bonds of yet closer affection ourselves and our subjects ; that from the highest to the humblest all may feel that under our rule the great principles of liberty, equity, and justice are secured to them ; and that to promote their happiness, to add to their prosperity, and advance their welfare, are the ever present aims and objects of our Empire.
第 389 頁 - ... in obedience to that tendency to imitation which we may almost describe as an ultimate law of the caste system. But how did the higher castes come by a custom which is without a parallel, at any rate on so large a scale, elsewhere in the world, and which cannot be referred to any of those primitive instincts which have usually determined the relations of the sexes ? Neither sexual passion nor the desire for companionship and service can be called in to account for a man marrying a girl at an...
第 10 頁 - Any soreness -which China may have experienced on account of events in 1860 has been healed over and forgotten long ago, but it is otherwise with the treaties which were then imposed on her. She had then to agree to conditions and give up vestiges of sovereignty which no independent nation can continue to agree to, and lie out of, without an attempt to change the one and recover the other. The humiliating conditions imposed on Russia with regard to the Black Sea in 1856 had to be cancelled by the...
第 60 頁 - She heard every complaint in person, and although she continually referred causes to courts of equity and arbitration, and to her ministers, for settlement, she was always accessible ; and so strong was her sense of duty, on all points connected with the distribution of justice, that she is represented as not only patient, but unwearied in the investigation of the most insignificant causes, when appeals were made to her decision.