Author: Victor Alexander Bruce Earl of Elgin
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Speeches by the Earl of Elgin
Author: Victor Alexander Bruce Earl of Elgin
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Speeches by the Earl of Elgin, Viceroy and Governor General of India. 1894-1899
Author: Victor Alexander BRUCE (9th Earl of Elgin and 13th Earl of Kincardine.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Speeches by the Earl of Elgin; Viceroy and Governor General of India 1894-1899
Author: Victor Alexander Bruce Elgin
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230047959
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Languages : en
Pages : 168
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...a skirmish at the outposts, and our skirmish with famine this summer was sharp and decisive. The distress which Agricultural Prospects. prevailed in the North-West Provinces this summer assumed dimensions which in other times would infallibly have had disastrous consequences. But the Government of the North-West Provinces unaided, without any dislocation of business, provided for a population so large that the numbers on relief-works for a considerable time exceeded 300,000, in so complete a manner that I think their achievement has never obtained the applause it merited, simply because so few realised what had been done... This great work was rendered possible by the very circumstances which, as the Hon'ble Member has said, have so much strengthened the hands of Government since 1877, more especially by the increased means of communication. It is to be remembered that in our reliance on our improved means of communication we are enunciating no new opinion. It was the opinion deliberately formed, with the experience of the great famine of 1877 fresh upon them, by the Government of Lord Lytton, who laid it down in the most precise terms that in the increase of railways and canals, but especially of railways, lay the only means open to the Government of meeting attacks of famine on more favourable conditions. ldraw attention to it now, both because I am desirous not to let this, my first opportunity, pass of alluding publicly to what Sir Antony MacDonnell and his officers have done, but because it cannot be denied that what they have done can be done again and on a larger scale, if necessary. It is upon the Local Government that, whatever happens, we must rely to carry out the measures that may become necessary, and knowing, as we do, ...
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230047959
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Languages : en
Pages : 168
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...a skirmish at the outposts, and our skirmish with famine this summer was sharp and decisive. The distress which Agricultural Prospects. prevailed in the North-West Provinces this summer assumed dimensions which in other times would infallibly have had disastrous consequences. But the Government of the North-West Provinces unaided, without any dislocation of business, provided for a population so large that the numbers on relief-works for a considerable time exceeded 300,000, in so complete a manner that I think their achievement has never obtained the applause it merited, simply because so few realised what had been done... This great work was rendered possible by the very circumstances which, as the Hon'ble Member has said, have so much strengthened the hands of Government since 1877, more especially by the increased means of communication. It is to be remembered that in our reliance on our improved means of communication we are enunciating no new opinion. It was the opinion deliberately formed, with the experience of the great famine of 1877 fresh upon them, by the Government of Lord Lytton, who laid it down in the most precise terms that in the increase of railways and canals, but especially of railways, lay the only means open to the Government of meeting attacks of famine on more favourable conditions. ldraw attention to it now, both because I am desirous not to let this, my first opportunity, pass of alluding publicly to what Sir Antony MacDonnell and his officers have done, but because it cannot be denied that what they have done can be done again and on a larger scale, if necessary. It is upon the Local Government that, whatever happens, we must rely to carry out the measures that may become necessary, and knowing, as we do, ...
The Earl of Elgin
Author: George McKinnon Wrong
Publisher: London : Methuen
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Publisher: London : Methuen
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Speech Delivered Before the Members of the Mercantile Library Association, on the Opening of the Winter's Course of Lectures, 1848-49, by His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T. ...
Author: James Bruce Earl of Elgin
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Category : Knowledge and learning
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Knowledge and learning
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Political Speeches in Scotland in 1884
Author: William Ewart Gladstone
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Elgin Speeches
Author: Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The Speeches and Public Letters of Joseph Howe
Author: Joseph Howe
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Category : Nova Scotia
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Category : Nova Scotia
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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His Majesty's Speech. Roll of Lords. Alphabetical List of Lords. Standing Orders of the House of Lords. Minutes of Proceedings
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Speeches: W.E. Gladstone
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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