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Eust India Company . himself in his capital of Delhi . This monarch and his family
were also placed upon the pension - list of the Company . We shall only mention
a few more facts connected with the Company's history till the opening of the ...
Eust India Company . himself in his capital of Delhi . This monarch and his family
were also placed upon the pension - list of the Company . We shall only mention
a few more facts connected with the Company's history till the opening of the ...
Page 357
East India Company : 81. The Court of Directors shall not appoint any person to
any employo ment or office in the civil and military establishments in India without
the approbation of the Board of Controul , other than and except as aforesaid .
East India Company : 81. The Court of Directors shall not appoint any person to
any employo ment or office in the civil and military establishments in India without
the approbation of the Board of Controul , other than and except as aforesaid .
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East India Company . promissory notes in circulation , amounts to about 25
millions . The debt of the East India Company is still more enormous , amounting ,
to more than 40 millions . The amount of the debts of the Company in India and
this ...
East India Company . promissory notes in circulation , amounts to about 25
millions . The debt of the East India Company is still more enormous , amounting ,
to more than 40 millions . The amount of the debts of the Company in India and
this ...
Page 362
East India Company . a unfortunately , Government has long since departed from
those principles of justice on which it was originally founded , and depended for
support on the maintenance of an interest in opposition to the interests of the ...
East India Company . a unfortunately , Government has long since departed from
those principles of justice on which it was originally founded , and depended for
support on the maintenance of an interest in opposition to the interests of the ...
Page 365
East India Company . not therefore from the remittance of any portion of the
territorial revenue that the capital of the country can have been increased , and
thereby the commerce , manufactures , and agriculture of the country extended .
East India Company . not therefore from the remittance of any portion of the
territorial revenue that the capital of the country can have been increased , and
thereby the commerce , manufactures , and agriculture of the country extended .
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Page 446 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons.
Page 384 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Page 276 - Because they .promise them both by their Sureties ; which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform.
Page 286 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 279 - At the first establishment of parochial clergy the tithes of the parish were distributed in a fourfold division, — one for the use of the bishop, another for maintaining the fabric of the church, a third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent.
Page 330 - They are not in trouble as other men ; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain ; violence covereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Page 113 - But when the reason of old establishments is gone, it is absurd to preserve nothing but the burthen of them. This is superstitiously to embalm a carcass not worth an ounce of the gums that are used to preserve it.
Page 394 - Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Great Steward of Scotland, High Steward of Plymouth, Colonel of the 10th Regiment of Dragoons, and Capt.-General of the Hon.
Page 114 - ... all courts, in all ages, JOBS, were still alive ; for whose sake alone it is that any trace of ancient grandeur is suffered to remain. These palaces are a true emblem of some governments ; the inhabitants are decayed, but the governors and magistrates still flourish. They put me in mind of Old...
Page 286 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands; In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.