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Page 324 - Servants, labourers and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Page i - An analysis of the political history of India ; in which is considered the present situation of the east , and the connection of its several powers with the empire of Great Britain , (by Rich.-Joseph Sulivan.) Landau , 1779.
Page 319 - Prejudice, indeed, may operate powerfully on fbme who have been educated in all the principles of Afiatic defpotifm, who have ruled over provinces with an arbitrary fway, and whofe words have been law ; but a difpaffionate enquirer, who judges with moderation, and who fees the...
Page 320 - ... and enfuring' to the honeft labourer the fcanty reward of his induftry and trouble. This, it is faid, has never been denied him. But what is more liable to mifreprefentation than an unfettled ftate where all dominion, after the confufion of...
Page 321 - Englifh agents, was let loofe upon a harmlefs. and inoffenfive race of men, what incitement could there be to the manufacturer and labourer? To reclaim men from diffipation, to check impatient hopes, where youths afpire to the abfolute government of countries at an age fcarcely adequate to the management of private affairs, to revive a general fpirit of induftry, to lead the minds of all from infatuated...
Page 320 - Englifh nation gave effect to the ufurpations of the private trader, who decided his own claims, oppreffing the natives, and threatening the officers of government if they prefumed to interfere, the neceffity was foon perceived of confining the free merchants to the refpe&ive prefidencies.
Page 36 - Archangel, newly difcovered; and they prefently became competitors with the Hanfe towns in Germany, and in the north. They began to trade with Turkey. Several of their navigators attempted, though in vain, to difcover a paflage to India by the northern feas. At length Drake, Stephens, Cavendifh, and fome others, reached that place, fome by the South Sea, and others by doubling the Cape of Good Hope.
Page 74 - BOOK clofe and contiguous ftate, a prodigious quantity of merchandife, provifions for their fortified towns, and revenues capable of maintaining a body of troops, which would have put them in a condition to defy the jealoufy of their neighbours, and the hatred of their enemies. Unfortunately for them, the court of Verfailles ordered that the Carnatic fhould be refufed, and affairs remained as they were before that propofal. THE fituation was critical.