Selections from My Recent Notes on the Indian Empire

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Times of India Steam Press, 1886 - 451 strani
 

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Stran 126 - And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet 'By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.
Stran 130 - ... the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man ; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they shall reject with indignation the wild and guilty fantasy, that man can hold property in man ! In vain you appeal to treaties, to covenants between nations.
Stran 381 - Work of the National Association for Supplying Female Medical Aid to the Women of India.
Stran 274 - I should explain that we do not contemplate the constitution of any separate statutory fund, as such a course would be attended with many useless and inconvenient complications, without giving any real security. Unless, then, it should be proved hereafter by experience that the annual appropriation of a smaller sum from our revenues will give to the country the protection which it requires, we consider that the estimates of every year ought to make provision for religiously applying the sum I have...
Stran 328 - By command of the Queen-Empress it is hereby notified that the territories formerly governed by King Theebaw will no longer be under his rule, but have become part of Her Majesty's dominions and will, during Her Majesty's pleasure be administered by such officers as the Viceroy and Governor-General of India may from time to time appoint.
Stran 369 - ... Europeans in some branches of the public service, and various other acts, may have seemed to them to be in partial violation of this policy. It cannot be denied that, whatever may have been the intentions of successive Secretaries of State, very little progress has been made in giving effect to...
Stran 209 - ... of the country, that is to say, those persons who, by their education, character, habits, and intelligence, are best fitted to serve her, being tempted by an over-absorption in their private business to abstain from all contact with public affairs, and from a due participation in the onerous and honorable strife of municipal or parliamentary politics.
Stran 129 - By his instructions learn to win renown, To stand the first in worth as in command, To add new honours to my native land ; Before my eyes my mighty sires to place, And emulate the glories of our race." 260 He spoke ; and transport fill'd Tydides...
Stran 209 - ... tone of the nation as a nation would deteriorate throughout every stratum of society ; and what, I ask, is the worth of the largest fortune in the world, of the most luxurious mansion of all the refinements and amenities of civilization, if we cannot be proud of the country in which we enjoy them, if we cannot claim part in the progress and history of our country if our hearts do not throb in unison with the vital pulse of the national existence, if we merely cling to it as parasites cling to...
Stran 378 - Medical relief ; including (a) the establishment, under female superintendence, of dispensaries and cottage hospitals for the treatment of women and children...

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