The servants of the Company obtained, not for their employers, hut for themselves, a monopoly of almost the whole internal trade. They forced the natives to buy dear and to sell cheap. They insulted with impunity the tribunals, the police, and the fiscal... Historical Essays - Page 240by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 501 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1840 - 662 pages
...sovereign, and who could unmake him. The servants of the Company obtained — not for their employers, but for themselves — a monopoly of almost the whole...internal trade. They forced the natives to buy dear and sell cheap. They insulted with perfect impunity the tribunals, the police, and the fiscal authorities... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1840 - 514 pages
...unmake him. The servants of the company obtained—not for their employers, but for themselves—a monopoly of almost the whole internal trade. They forced the natives to buy dear and sell cheap. They insulted with perfect impunity the tribunals, the police, and the fiscal authorities... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 424 pages
...unmake him. The servants of the Company obtained—not for their employers, but for themselves—a monopoly of almost the whole internal trade. They forced the natives to buy dear and sell cheap. Thoy insulted with perfect impunity the tribunals, the police, and the fiscal authorities... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1844 - 1184 pages
...sovereign, and who could unmake him. The servants of the company obtained — not for their employers, but for themselves — a monopoly of almost the whole...internal trade. They forced the natives to buy dear and sell cheap. They insulted with perfect impunity the tribunals, the police, and the fiscal authorities... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...prince divided among his foreign masters whatever could be scraped together from the treasury of but fur hought. He came back determined to put every thing to the sell cheap. They insulted with perfect impunity the tribunals, tne police, and the fiscal authorities... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...sovereign, and who could unmake him. The servants of the Company obtained — not for their employers, but for themselves — a monopoly of almost the whole...internal trade. They forced the natives to buy dear and sell cheap. They insulted with perfect impunity the tribunals, tne police, and the fiscal authorities... | |
| John C. Cobden - Labor - 1853 - 528 pages
...whole interim! trade; they forced the natives to buy dear and sell cheap ; they insulted with perfect impunity the tribunals, the police, and the fiscal...they covered with their protection a set of native dependants, who ranged through the provinces spreading desolation and terror wherever they appeared.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...sovereign, and who could unmake him. The servants of the Company obtained — not for their employers, but for themselves — a monopoly of almost the whole...internal trade. They forced the natives to buy dear and sell cheap. They insulted with perfect impunity the tribunals, tne police, and the fiscal authorities... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1856 - 752 pages
...unmake him. The servants c;f the Company obtained—not for their empoyers, but for themselves—a monopoly of almost the whole internal trade. They forced the natives to buy dear and sell cheap. They insulted with perfect impunity the tribunals, the police, and the fiscal authorities... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...and I who could unmake him. The servants ;f the I Company obtained — not for their eraf /Dyers, but th, Sou they, and a crowd of other distinguished writers, beneath his feet. There is scarcely an instance sell cheap. They insulted with perfect impunity the tribunals, tne police, and the fiscal authorities... | |
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