 Calcutta, while thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never under tyranny like this. They found the little finger of the Company thicker than the loins of Surajah...  Principles of Social Science - Page 339by Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 511 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1840 - 662 pages
...Under their old masters they had at least one resource : — when the evil became insupportable, they rose and pulled down the government. But the English...barbarian despotism, was strong with all the strength of civilisation. It resembled the government of evil genii, rather than the government of human tyrants.... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 612 pages
...tyranny like this. They found the little finger of the Company thicker than the loins of Surajah Dowlah. Under their old masters they had at least one resource : — when the evil became insupportable, they rose and pulled down the government. But the English government was not to be so shaken off. That... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 612 pages
...they had at least one resource : — when the evil became insupportable, they rose and pulled clown the government. But the English government was not...barbarian despotism, was strong with all the strength of civilisation. It resembled the government of evil genii, rather than the government of human tyrants.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 424 pages
...tyranny like this. They found the little finger of the Company thicker than the loins of Surajah Dowlah. Under their old masters they had at least one resource: when the evil became insupportable, they rose and pulled down the government. But the English government was not to be so shaken off. That... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1844 - 1184 pages
...tyranny like this. They found the little finger of the company thicker than the loins of Suraj-u-Dowlah. Under their old masters they had at least one resource : when the evil became insupportable they rose and pulled down the government. But the English government was not to be so shaken off. That... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...tyranny like this. They found the little finger of the Company thicker than the loins of Surajah Dowlah. Under their old masters they had at least one resource : when the evil became insupportable, they rose and pulled down the government. But the English government was not to be so shaken off. That... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...tyranny like this. They found the little finger of the Company thicker than the loins of Surajah Dowlah. tages of reality and deception, the cl they rose and pulled down the government. But the English government was not to be so shaken off. That... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1853 - 596 pages
...tyranny like this. They found the little finger of the Company thicker than the loins of Surajah Dowlah. Under their old masters they had at least one resource...barbarian despotism, was strong with all the strength of civilisation. It resembled the government of evil Genii, rather than the government of human tyrants.... | |
 | John C. Cobden - Labor - 1853 - 528 pages
...tyranny like this; they found the little finger of the Company thicker t'uan the loins of Surajah Dowlah. Under their old masters they had at least one resource; when the evil became insupportable, they rose and pulled down the government. But the English government was cot to be so shaken off. That... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...like this. They found the little finger of the Company thic'üer than the loins of Surajnh Dowlah. Under their old masters they had at least one resource: when the evil became insupportable, they rose and pulled down the government. But the English government was not to be so shaken off. That... | |
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