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... India College , with an Appeal to Facts , in refutation of the Charges lately brought against it in the Court of Proprietors . By the Rev. T. R. Malthus , Professor of History and Political Economy in the East India College ...
... India College , with an Appeal to Facts , in refutation of the Charges lately brought against it in the Court of Proprietors . By the Rev. T. R. Malthus , Professor of History and Political Economy in the East India College ...
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... Indian warrior , and he was one of the most active men I have ever seen . The western part of Tongataboo , with Anamooka , the Hapai islands , and all the islands to the northward , were under his juris- diction . But what gave him more ...
... Indian warrior , and he was one of the most active men I have ever seen . The western part of Tongataboo , with Anamooka , the Hapai islands , and all the islands to the northward , were under his juris- diction . But what gave him more ...
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... India , the still increasing and exorbitant rates of the expenses , the incessant want of cash , the mass of paper ... Indian government , the excessive expenses in the military department and for the public de- fence ; in a word , when ...
... India , the still increasing and exorbitant rates of the expenses , the incessant want of cash , the mass of paper ... Indian government , the excessive expenses in the military department and for the public de- fence ; in a word , when ...
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... India had been reduced , that we were dis- posed to call in question the splendid prospect of an augmentation of British power and prosperity , ' held forth by Lord Minto on its capture in 1810 ; and induced to think that , having ...
... India had been reduced , that we were dis- posed to call in question the splendid prospect of an augmentation of British power and prosperity , ' held forth by Lord Minto on its capture in 1810 ; and induced to think that , having ...
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... India , or of any tropical country in the world . But Batavia was the storehouse of disease and mortality . Mr ... Indian corn , is an important article in the agriculture of the island , as is the kachang ( dolichos ) . The sugar cane ...
... India , or of any tropical country in the world . But Batavia was the storehouse of disease and mortality . Mr ... Indian corn , is an important article in the agriculture of the island , as is the kachang ( dolichos ) . The sugar cane ...
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Page 341 - John. It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
Page 357 - Population invariably increases where the means of subsistence increase, unless prevented by some very powerful and obvious checks. 3. These checks, and the checks which repress the superior power of population, and keep its effects on a level with the means of subsistence, are all resolvable into moral restraint, vice, and misery.
Page 155 - That he has sufficient reasons therefore for directing his talents to the amelioration of manners, there can be no doubt : — the next point of importance is to ascertain the particular class of society upon which his habits of life have enabled him to make the most accurate observations, and to the improvement of which his labours are most likely to contribute. We are happy to have it in our power to state, that the objects of his most sedulous care are of the softer sex. It is not indeed the sex...
Page 290 - I never addressed myself, in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden and frozen Lapland, rude and...
Page 351 - Taking the whole earth, instead of this island, emigration would of course be excluded; and, supposing the present population equal to a thousand millions, the human species would increase as the numbers, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256; and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Page 125 - TWO FEMALE PRENTICES TO DEATH, AND HID THEM IN THE COAL-HOLE. For her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes ! Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine Of the Orthyan goddess he bade flog The little Spartans ; such as erst chastised Our Milton, when at college.
Page 12 - ... uncomfortable, and did not feel his own personal identity, as it were, but seemed to have a mind different from his own natural mind, his thoughts wandering upon strange and unusual subjects, although perfectly sensible of surrounding objects. He next asked him how he knew it was the spirit of Toogoo Ahoo ? His answer was, " There's a fool ! How can I tell you how I knew it ? I felt and knew it was so by a kind of consciousness ; my mind told me that it was Toogoo Ahoo
Page 118 - To dispense justice to millions of people of various languages, manners, usages, and religions ; to administer a vast and complicated system of revenue, through districts equal in extent to some of the most considerable kingdoms in Europe ; to maintain civil order in one of the most populous and litigious regions in the world ; these are now the duties of the larger portion of the civil servants of the Company.
Page 351 - ... the human species would increase as the numbers, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Page 290 - Men, to perform a generous action : in so free and kind a manner did they contribute to my relief, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught ; and if hungry, I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.