The Life of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, Bart. and K.C.B., Late Governor of Madras, Volume 2H. Colbrn and R. Bentley, 1831 - India |
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Page 68 - SIR, -I have had the honour to receive your letter of the 22nd instant, in which you intimate to me your intention of violating the law.
Page 176 - Britain itself at least as hopeless as it is here. When we reflect how much the character of nations has always been influenced by that of governments, and that some, once the most cultivated, have sunk into barbarism, while others, formerly the rudest, have attained the highest point of...
Page 332 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Page 107 - A free press and the dominion of strangers are things which are quite incompatible, and which cannot long exist together. For what is the first duty of a free press ? It is to deliver the country from a foreign yoke...
Page 175 - We should look upon India not as a temporary possession, but as one which is to be maintained permanently, until the natives shall in some future age have abandoned most of their superstitions and prejudices, and become sufficiently enlightened to frame a regular Government for themselves, and to conduct and preserve it.
Page 416 - Munro, in words used many years since, that any expense which may be incurred for this object, 'will be amply repaid by the improvement of the country ; for the general diffusion of knowledge is inseparably followed by more orderly habits, by increasing industry, by a taste for the comforts of life, by exertion to acquire them, and by the growing prosperity of the people.
Page 110 - India will be placed unde.ra foreign government with a free press and a native army, the spirit of independence will spring up in this army long before it is ever thought of among the people.
Page 171 - It is time that we should learn, that neither the face of a country, its property, nor its society, are things that can be suddenly improved by any contrivance of ours, though they may be greatly injured by what we mean for their good...
Page 174 - There is one great question to which we should look in all our arrangements ; What is to be their final result on the character of the people ? Is it to be raised, or is it to be lowered ? Are we to be satisfied with merely securing our power and protecting the inhabitants, leaving them to sink gradually in character lower than at present; or are we to. endeavour to raise their character, and to render them worthy of filling higher...
Page 113 - We are trying an experiment never yet tried in the world ; maintaining a foreign dominion by means of a native army, and teaching that army, through a free press, that they ought to expel us, and deliver their country.