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Page 29 - That it is the peculiar and bounden duty of the British Legislature to promote by all just and prudent means the interest and happiness of the inhabitants of the British Dominions in India; and that for these ends such measures ought to be adopted as may gradually tend to their advancement in useful knowledge and to their religious and moral improvement.
Page 185 - But if a good system of agriculture, unrivalled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, the general practice of hospitality and charity amongst each other, and above all, a treatment of the female sex, full of confidence, respect, and delicacy, are among the signs which denote...
Page 185 - ... each other; and above all, a treatment of the female sex full of . confidence, respect and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a...
Page 10 - I do not think that their religion is calculated to correct it. Are there any particular crimes that are directly inculcated by their religion ?—Certainly : what would be called crimes in this country ; for instance, such as the burning of widows on the funeral pile of their husbands. Is...
Page 24 - A certain ameer al omrah,-}- at the head of many of the nobles and learned of the land, has declared, " that there are more than fifty millions of inhabitants subject to the British empire in India, under the influence of inhuman and degrading superstitions, which form an effectual bar to their progress in civilization...
Page 4 - To this, of course, Lord Teignmouth replied, that there might be danger in such indiscretion ; but that no one contemplated the conversion of the natives of India by such means; and when, soon afterwards, the question was put, " Is your lordship aware that an opinion prevails in India, that it is the intention of the British Government to take means to convert the natives of the country to the Christian religion?" he answered. without a moment's hesitation, " / never heard it, or suspected it.
Page 126 - I would say, that they are mild in their dispositions, polished in their general manners: in their domestic relations kind and affectionate — submissive to authority, and peculiarly attached to their religious tenets, and to the observance of the rites and ceremonies prescribed by those tenets.
Page 69 - The Hindoo inhabitants are a race of men, generally speaking, not more distinguished by their lofty stature . . . than they are for some of the finest qualities of the mind ; they are brave, generous, and humane, and their truth is as remarkable as their courage.
Page 214 - ... of every kind ; religion and trade are in India sister arts, the one is seldom found in any large assembly without the society • of the other : It is this trading disposition of the natives, which induces me to think it impossible that any European traders can long remain in the interior of India and that they must sooner or later all be driven to the coast ; what the European trader eats and drinks in one month, would make a very decent mercantile profit for the Hindoo for twelve ; they do...