An Essay on the Best Means of Civilising the Subjects of the British Empire in India, and of Diffusing the Light of the Christian Religion Throughout the Eastern World |
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... labour , and with still less art , the ground brings forth plentifully . Government , ancient and modern . Soil , and its productions . In a country which has been so often conquered , and is Agriculture . still in a state so unsettled ...
... labour , and with still less art , the ground brings forth plentifully . Government , ancient and modern . Soil , and its productions . In a country which has been so often conquered , and is Agriculture . still in a state so unsettled ...
Page 64
... labours , or scatters the seed of his future harvest . And , without that degree of tranquillity which peace creates , or that confidence which adequate means of defence ( under Its necessity Providence ) inspire , projects of internal ...
... labours , or scatters the seed of his future harvest . And , without that degree of tranquillity which peace creates , or that confidence which adequate means of defence ( under Its necessity Providence ) inspire , projects of internal ...
Page 80
... labour to support and adorn the native character of Britons ; and study , by a wise and moderate , by a beneficent and energetic system of administration , to cause himself to be at once loved and feared . Let him consider well the ...
... labour to support and adorn the native character of Britons ; and study , by a wise and moderate , by a beneficent and energetic system of administration , to cause himself to be at once loved and feared . Let him consider well the ...
Page 117
... thing but earth . The merchants are the factors of the world , to exchange one part of the earth for another . The king himself is fed by the labour of the ox , and the clothing of Husbandry . the army , and the tackling of the navy , 117.
... thing but earth . The merchants are the factors of the world , to exchange one part of the earth for another . The king himself is fed by the labour of the ox , and the clothing of Husbandry . the army , and the tackling of the navy , 117.
Page 118
... labours of the field are calculated to breed a hardy , an athletic , and a temperate class of men . Without adopting the fanciful theory , that the heathen le- gends were altogether allegorical , we may be permitted to suppose , that ...
... labours of the field are calculated to breed a hardy , an athletic , and a temperate class of men . Without adopting the fanciful theory , that the heathen le- gends were altogether allegorical , we may be permitted to suppose , that ...
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