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... India Bill - His regard for Lord Glenelg -Letters to Lady Trevelyan - The West Indian question - Macaulay resigns office - He gains his point , and resumes his place - Emancipation of the Slaves - Death of Wilberforce - Letters to Lady ...
... India Bill - His regard for Lord Glenelg -Letters to Lady Trevelyan - The West Indian question - Macaulay resigns office - He gains his point , and resumes his place - Emancipation of the Slaves - Death of Wilberforce - Letters to Lady ...
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... India - His Minutes for Council- Freedom of the Press - Literary gratitude - Second Minute on the Freedom of the Press - The Black Act - A Calcutta public meeting - Macaulay's defence of the policy of the Indian Government - His Minute ...
... India - His Minutes for Council- Freedom of the Press - Literary gratitude - Second Minute on the Freedom of the Press - The Black Act - A Calcutta public meeting - Macaulay's defence of the policy of the Indian Government - His Minute ...
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... India in 1810. The boy greeted him with a copy of verses , beginning Now safe returned from Asia's parching strand , Welcome , thrice welcome to thy native land . To tell the unvarnished truth , the General's return was not altogether ...
... India in 1810. The boy greeted him with a copy of verses , beginning Now safe returned from Asia's parching strand , Welcome , thrice welcome to thy native land . To tell the unvarnished truth , the General's return was not altogether ...
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... India Company's Charter was just then under the consideration of Parliament , and the whole energies of the Evangelical party were exerted in order to signalise the occasion by securing our Eastern dominions as a field for the spread of ...
... India Company's Charter was just then under the consideration of Parliament , and the whole energies of the Evangelical party were exerted in order to signalise the occasion by securing our Eastern dominions as a field for the spread of ...
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... India . My Scotch blood begins to boil at the mention of the 1750 names that went up from a single country parish . Ask Mama and Selina if they do not now admit my argument with regard to the superior advantages of the Scotch over the ...
... India . My Scotch blood begins to boil at the mention of the 1750 names that went up from a single country parish . Ask Mama and Selina if they do not now admit my argument with regard to the superior advantages of the Scotch over the ...
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Page 40 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 403 - Council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India; and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone.
Page 162 - For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
Page 376 - I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ, and -him crucified.
Page 57 - MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assigned ; Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
Page 45 - May'st thou live to know and fear Him, Trust and love Him all thy days ; Then go dwell for ever near Him, See His face, and sing His praise...
Page 402 - ... medical doctrines which would disgrace an English farrier — astronomy which would move laughter in the girls at an English boarding-school — history, abounding with kings thirty feet high and reigns thirty thousand years long — and geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter.
Page 455 - It is my firm belief that, if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence.
Page 117 - wellnigh worn out with that long disease, his life,' and, in the last precious days of it, ' discovered lying on the floor, employed in learning, by aid of grammar and dictionary, enough Italian to enable him to verify...
Page 377 - Clarissa with me : and, as soon as they began to read, the whole station was in a passion of excitement about Miss Harlowe and her misfortunes, and her scoundrelly Lovelace ! The governor's wife seized the book, and the secretary waited for it, and the chief justice could not read it for tears...