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... remarks on the numbers and pro- bable increase of the people . 2. I propose to show that , taking into account the increase of the people , the financial condition of India is such that it must , eventually , be unable to meet the cost ...
... remarks on the numbers and pro- bable increase of the people . 2. I propose to show that , taking into account the increase of the people , the financial condition of India is such that it must , eventually , be unable to meet the cost ...
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... remark of Lord Salisbury's can only appear to be an intensely bitter and cruel gibe . What have the masses to save from ? As regards the great mass of poor cultivators , I can testify that they have nothing to save from , for I have ...
... remark of Lord Salisbury's can only appear to be an intensely bitter and cruel gibe . What have the masses to save from ? As regards the great mass of poor cultivators , I can testify that they have nothing to save from , for I have ...
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... remarks on this head . We have now looked at the subject in the usual way - from the top downwards ; and those who are accustomed to the usual method of regarding Indian affairs will naturally conclude that there is nothing to be done ...
... remarks on this head . We have now looked at the subject in the usual way - from the top downwards ; and those who are accustomed to the usual method of regarding Indian affairs will naturally conclude that there is nothing to be done ...
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... remark , I need hardly say , applies to all the better class of farmers . In the first place , then , every tenure should declare a rate beyond which the Govern- ment demand is not to go in any future lease , and the rate of enhancement ...
... remark , I need hardly say , applies to all the better class of farmers . In the first place , then , every tenure should declare a rate beyond which the Govern- ment demand is not to go in any future lease , and the rate of enhancement ...
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... remark here , that every legal engine that can aid the ruin of the cultivator has been brought to bear upon him by our Government . His needs compel him to borrow , and , when he does so , his liberty is gone for ever , and his life ...
... remark here , that every legal engine that can aid the ruin of the cultivator has been brought to bear upon him by our Government . His needs compel him to borrow , and , when he does so , his liberty is gone for ever , and his life ...
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acres agricultural amongst amount Angora goat Athenæum Club Australian Colonies British possessions Canada Canadian Canadian Pacific Railway canal Cape Colony Cape Town capital Captain cent Ceylon Chinamen Chinese civilisation Club coast colonists considerable cultivation districts Duke of Manchester emigration Empire England English European exports famine favour foreign countries FREDERICK YOUNG gold-fields Government harbour hear HENRY hope immigration Imperial important increase India Institute interest island Jamaica James John Kafir labour lady Lake land large number Lord Lord Salisbury Macalister manufactures Melbourne Messrs miles millions Miss Molineux mother-country Natal natives Naval Pacific paper population Port present President produce province Queensland question railway Ramiseram raw material regard remarks revenue River road Royal Sir Julius Vogel South Africa South Australia South Wales Street Sydney territory textile tion Town trade Transvaal Victoria West Indies whole WILLIAM Zealand
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Seite 59 - That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Seite 360 - Empire shall not be destroyed, and in my opinion no minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing as much as possible our Colonial Empire, and of responding to those distant sympathies which may become the source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land.
Seite 360 - But self-government, in my opinion, when it was conceded, ought to have been conceded as part of a great policy of Imperial consolidation. It ought to have been accompanied by an Imperial tariff, by securities, for the people of England for the enjoyment of the unappropriated lands which belonged to the Sovereign as their trustee, and by a military code...
Seite 48 - But, on the other hand, there can be no doubt that the truth which is presented in its absolute form in these discourses is presented in a specific act and in a concrete form in the Holy Communion ; and yet further that the Holy Communion is the divinely appointed means whereby men may realise the truth.
Seite 365 - The most triumphant death is that of the martyr ; the most awful that of the martyred patriot ; the most splendid that of the hero in the hour of victory ; and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory. He has left us, not indeed his mantle of inspiration, but a name and an example which are at this hour inspiring thousands of the youth of England— a name which is our pride, and an example which...
Seite 246 - Winnipeg, an inland sea 300 miles long and upwards of sixty broad, during the navigation of which for many a weary hour he will find himself out of sight of land, and probably a good deal more indisposed than ever he was on the Lake of the Woods, or even the Atlantic. "At the north-west angle of Lake Winnipeg he hits upon the mouth of the Saskatchewan, the gateway...
Seite 354 - ... copper, silver, lead, marble, tin, slate, and opals ; wine — including all the varieties of the French and German vineyards — tobacco, and perhaps most important of all, wool. From Western Australia we find leather, timber, silk, coal, lead, and wines. Victoria, which boasts of 800 trees and flowering shrubs, exhibits also coal, wines, and cloth manufactures.
Seite 356 - England that from her loins have sprung a hundred millions — it may be two hundred millions — of men who dwell and prosper on that continent which the grand old Genoese gave to Europe. Sir, if the sentiments which I have uttered shall become the sentiments of the Parliament and people of the United...
Seite 384 - The band of the Grenadier Guards, under the direction of Mr. D. Godfrey, played a well-selected programme of music during the evening.
Seite 246 - Winnipeg, an inland sea three hundred miles long and upward of sixty broad, during the navigation of which for many a weary hour he will find himself out of sight of land, and probably a good deal more indisposed than ever he was on the Lake of the Woods, or even the Atlantic.