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...ia Company ‘It is the strangest of all governments but it is designed for the strangest of all empires.’ Macauley, 1833 On New Years Eve 160... ... Company would influence more than 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest Empire the world has ever known? Historians have m... ... his daughter’s education and by the time she was fifteen, Helen could speak French, Spanish and Portuguese fluently. Her interest in science and ma... ...Bombay. Helen recalled its strange history. This city in 1661 had formed part of the dowry of the Portuguese Princess, Catherine of Braganza, on her... ...herself aloud. Isabel was half Indian. She had told her last night that her birthplace was Goa, a Portuguese colony in Southern India, and that her ... ...ther sought the protection of the British against the warring factions of the fragmenting Moghul Empire. ‘Needless to say, part of my job here as R... ...ding at the entrance to the large ballroom to greet their guests. The Comtesse was dressed in the Empire style favoured by the Empress, Josephine, a... ... the pomp and ceremony of this colourful pageant was an echo from the glorious past of the Moghul Empire and deliberately designed to belie the decl... ...des Orientales. Their rivalry with the British was more fierce and bitter than with the Dutch and Portuguese, because their respective countries’ ho...

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...ry of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire....

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...ssage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire 33-44 CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward ... ...mmands another expedition. -- A fleet despatched to avenge the massacre of the Portuguese -- A motley crowd of sailors -- The bloodthirstiness of da G... ... in history -- Miserable end of the barbarous voyagers -- The red trail of the Portuguese butchers -- Da Gama sent again, as viceroy of India -- He di... ...s -- Da Gama sent again, as viceroy of India -- He dies of poison -- Demon and Portuguese synonymous terms in India -- Da Gama's ghost, pursued, by th... ...coriation of Davis -- 24 of his men are killed -- Cavendish is defeated by the Portuguese -- A mutiny among the crew -- He attempts the execution of o... ...he statement may appear, we have it upon the authority of Antonio Galvano, the Portuguese historian, that the Romans, having made themselves masters o... ... returned to their own country by the southern route. DESTRUCTION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. The Romans continued to rule the world and carried on an overla... ...Romans continued to wage war against the invaders, however, until 474 when the Empire passed into the hands of the fierce Norsemen. For several hundre... ...two Polos, sent two Dominicans to carry the Christian religion into the Tartan Empire. But before they had completed any considerable part of the jour...

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..., being absent from their own families. Where do you think the custom of All Empires neglecting their own colonies, and leaving them to fend for the... ...erally; all the war-like Zulus and Bantus, the Masai and Swahili’s that ruled empires in Africa before the White Man came were nomadic herders. Fo... ...e to be had. That is the fate of all long-term advantage and dominance which Empires suffer from. It weakens the culture you live in, it weakens yo... ...hese waves of migration continued up until around 1400 A.D.... when the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan exploded upon the scene. Only to be quickly ab... ...es of North America so exactly it is amazing. Every major migration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English i... ...ous, these tectonic plates arrived in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is ... ...de and colonization until these two small states were the envy of Europe. The Portuguese and the Dutch people were small enough as a population and l... ...ire Globe, the entire living Earth and all the wealth found on it: between the Portuguese and Spanish Royalty. They were secretly plotting an attemp... ...at destroyed the entire city, and burned it to the ground. Did this stop the Portuguese? No. An even more rapacious killer Monarch-dictator emerge...

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... in the Babylonian, Egyptian, and later Persian, and eventually Macedonian empires. The first influence was a religious system which traces itself bac... ...lgation as the official religious system of Persia and then of the Persian empire. 14 This system today is continued by a very small group principally... ...oroastrianism which had quickly gained the official support of the Persian empire. For reasons not quite clear, this prevented the establishment of Bu... ...ecame well known, particularly during the time of the Macedonian and Roman empires. By about 300 BC Buddhism had become a THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 24 ... ...th. In the first century AD this area was one of the outposts of the Roman Empire. Because this was the site of ma- jor trade routes with Africa and A... ...e at Lourdes. Another well-known ap- pearance was to three children in the Portuguese village of Fati- ma in 1917, which also led to the building of a...

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...rmed 29 from essay, prose, poem!), significantly named Introduction in the empire of error. It refers to the volume itself, including these “defe... .../ nonexistence, what means “the way of not to be, of the inhabitants from the Empire of Evil, to not exist, although they exist”. This is the highes... ...e, where nothing ( or almost) is put/let at random. After Introduction in the empire of error ( a manifesto of the paradoxism too, but covered with ... ...ent languages of the polyglot Smarandache (he knows French, English, Spanish, Portuguese).Affinities, volume of translations from the universal poet...

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...the “social” paradoxism - as “the way of not being the inhabitants of an Empire of Evil assume of not existing even though they exist”, then naming... ...ical function has a high consistency. The paradoxist poet behaves, in the empire of the words, signs and silences, with a supremely absolute availab... ...t, that is translations of poems of genre in Italian, Esperanto, Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Arabian. The linguistic diversity gives an id... ...ersale lyric, poems translated in Romanian from English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dorul, Aarborg, Denmark, 1998; 87 17. Teacher in A... ...ies / Bizarreries, Inter-noréal, Caen, France, 1989; partly translated in Portuguese by Teresinka Pereira and entitled: Fanatico, International Write... ...ages, author’s poems translated by others in Italian, Esperanto, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, Arabian, Aius, Craiova, 124p., 2000; 35. Inve...

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...nch, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/Flemish, Greek, Hebrew. We have te... ...poses other than pilfering intellectual property digitally. The Italians, Portuguese and Dutch haven't even considered the option. Hardware manufa... ...-Semitic sites will be blocked to Jews and communists will be spared Evil Empire speeches. Filtering will be usually done using extensive and adaptab... ...and take off into the land of the Technicians, these new mandarins of the Empire(R). But, before starting our "graphic adventure" in the techno-jung...

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... have merely viewed the beauty of Rome, but Father Antonio saw the Holy Roman Empire, headed by the most powerful religious leader in the world, Pop... ...reat shame for us. But the Jesuits you speak of were 213 J.Cross/Artemis Portuguese," Antonio responded," trying to put the past in context. ”It... ...fia and Yakuza forming an alliance to stop a lucrative part of their criminal empire; the Cartels hiring a terrorist group to bomb the Washington Mo...

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...ks in Germany, Indonesians in Holland, and people from throughout the old empire into the UK. Most refugees are going to put a strain on their new ho... ... countrymen. This is normal, but it impedes integration. Whether it is the Portuguese or Italian areas of Toronto, the Cuban areas of Miami, the Moro...

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...rity, prac- tically taking over the sovereignty of the existing states and empires of the world. Most people’s ideas of the League fall between these ... ...tates and see to what this leads us. We find our list includes the British Empire, with a population of four hundred millions, of which probably half ... ...f equal representation between such “powers” is enough to make the British Empire burst into a thousand (voting) frag- ments. A certain concession to ... ...re that three or four minute and backward states could outvote the British Empire or the United States. Therein lies the clue to the insignificance of... ...Germany makes sudden proposals af- fecting native labour that win over the Portuguese and the Boers? There are a score of such points upon which we sh... ...0 In the Fourth Year number it is) men to whom we are going to entrust our Empire’s share in this great task of the peace negotiations, it will be mor... ...y possess it. And, more- over, this idea queries the adjective of Belgian, Portuguese, French, and British Central Africa alike, just as emphatically ... ...ood stamping out infectious disease in Nyasaland while it is being bred in Portuguese East Africa. And if there is a Disarmament Commission already co... ...ton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese—might all be represented in proportion to their interest. Whethe...

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... the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord in the whole empire. I have seen him do the summerset several times together, upon a t... ...between the author and a principal secretary, concerning the affairs of that empire. The author’s offers to serve the em peror in his wars. T he firs... ... is now almost ready for the press; containing a general description of this empire, from its first erection, through along series of princes; with a ... ...d to the public or to myself during a residence of about nine months in that empire. One morning, about a fortnight after I had obtained my liberty, R... ... for about seventy moons past there have been two struggling parties in this empire, under the names of Tramecksan and Slamecksan, from the high and... ...d with an arrow by one of the natives. Is seized and carried by force into a Portuguese ship. The great civilities of the cap tain. The author arrive... ... or a cow should speak in England, or a Yahoo in Houyhnhnmland. The honest Portuguese were equally amazed at my strange dress, and the odd manner of...

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...who make large profits by hiring out their ships of war to the Spaniards and Portuguese, are obliged to import most of their materials they use. We ou... ...eatest pride, and in which she will in time excel the whole world. The great empires of the east are mostly inland, and consequently excluded from the... ...ith held the other; to America only hath she been liberal of both. The vast empire of Russia is almost shut out from the sea: wherefore, her boundles...

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... nearly every person living within the confines of what was then the Roman Empire who left living offspring must have been ancestral to every person l... ...dburys the cocoa and chocolate makers, and the practical slavery under the Portuguese of the East African negroes who grow the raw material for Messrs... ... going, and exert themselves in every way to let light into the secrets of Portuguese East Africa and to organize a better control of these labour cru... ...s main body is concerned still is, the pontifex maximus of the Roman world empire, an official who was performing sacrifices centuries before Christ w... ...sacrifices centuries before Christ was born. It is easy to assert that the Empire was con- verted to Christianity and submitted to its terrestrial lea... ...t is quite equally plausible to say that the religious organization of the Empire adopted Christian- ity and so made Rome, which had hitherto had no p... ...e. These, it seems to me, are the boundary and the living capi- tal of the empire of life we rule. All empires need a comprehending boundary, but many...

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...political charac- ter and the laws of the country, and that it has no less empire over civil society than over the Government; it creates opin- ions, ... ... all classes are equally cultivated; the State becomes democratic, and the empire of democracy is slowly and peaceably introduced into the institution... ...atever crossed its path, and has shaken all that it has not destroyed. Its empire on society has not been gradually in- troduced or peaceably establis... ...on went on. The religious and political passions which ravaged the British Empire during the whole reign of *The emigrants who founded the State of Rh... ...The new settlers did not derive their incor- poration from the seat of the empire, although they did not deny its supremacy; they constituted a societ... ...reat colonies which were founded in South America by the Spaniards and the Portuguese have since become em- pires. Civil war and oppression now lay wa... ...constitute flourishing and enlightened nations. But when the Spaniards and Portuguese of South America begin to feel the wants common to all civilized... ...ers, the English, occupy with regard to the Ital- ians, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, and all those nations of Europe which receive their articles of...

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... my former circumstances, and what condition I was in when taken up by the Portuguese captain; and how much more deplorable the circumstances of the p... ...for I knew what it was to be set on shore in a strange country; and if the Portuguese captain that took me up at sea had served me so, and taken all I... ...een at Barbary, the mere being sold to a Mahometan excepted; and perhaps a Portuguese is not a much better master than a T urk, if not in some cases m... ...of its being me that was come, till I spoke to him. “Seignior,” said I, in Portuguese, “do you 29 Daniel Defoe not know me?” At which he spoke not a ... ... he went on board, in order to sail to the Madeiras; but the master of the Portuguese ship being but an indiffer- ent mariner, had been out of his rec... ...his canal is a navigable stream, which goes through the heart of that vast empire of China, crosses all the rivers, passes some considerable hills by ... ...ey; telling me how he would show me all the glorious things of that mighty empire, and, among the rest, Pekin, the greatest city in the world: “ A cit... ... powerful navies? Our city of London has more trade than half their mighty empire: one English, Dutch, or French man- of-war of eighty guns would be a... ...ges, we did not expect such things among them. But all the forces of their empire, though they were to bring two millions of men into the field togeth...

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...on with my father.” Willoughby, as usual, loved his business and built his Empire, and between them all she would be consider- ably bored. Being a wom... ...g over the waves, still sought the land meditatively, “or about navies, or empires, or any- thing.” So saying she opened the book and began to read: “... ...gree with you. I can conceive no more exalted aim—to be the citizen of the Empire. Look at it in this way, Miss Vinrace; conceive the state as a compl... ...imported; children grew. All seemed to favour the expansion of the British Empire, and had there been men like Richard Dalloway in the time of Charles... ...s, and painted idols; from the sea came venge- ful Spaniards and rapacious Portuguese; exposed to all these enemies (though the climate proved wonderf... ...was three hundred years ago. In population it is a happy compro- mise, for Portuguese fathers wed Indian mothers, and their children intermarry with t... ...epper, asleep too. Thirty-six, thirty- seven, thirty-eight—here were three Portuguese men of business, asleep presumably, since a snore came with the ... ...s. Paley was wheeled past. Susan followed. Mr. Venning strolled after her. Portuguese military families, their clothes suggesting late rising in untid... ...ted her more than personalities, but Mrs. Elliot would only talk about the Empire in a less abstract form. “I hear there are dreadful accounts from En...

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...n his handful to be the advance of regiments. These are the deeds that win empires! the argument in his favour ran. Are they of a char- acter to maint... ...res! the argument in his favour ran. Are they of a char- acter to maintain empires? the counter-question was urged. Men of a deliberative aspect were ... ..., French, English, Ameri- cans, Italians, if they will come; Spaniards and Portuguese, and Scandinavians, Russians as well. And Jews; Mahommedans too,... ...e as a special army corps for the perfect security of our priceless Indian Empire, instanced the danger likely to result from their panic fear of cann... ...er who did it eminent service at a crisis of the desti- nies of our Indian Empire! He could not condone the injury done to him by entering among them ...

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...obe are the Nantucketer’s. For the sea is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires; other seamen having but a right of way through it. Merchant ships ... ...paltry and base. This it is, that for ever keeps God’s true princes of the Empire from the world’s hustings; and leaves the highest honours that this ... ...hen, as in the case of Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown of geographical empire encircles an imperial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased ... ...llages?—The blast! the blast! Up, spine, and meet it! (Leaps to his feet.) Portuguese sailor. How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by fo... ...lag bearing the one figure of a snow-white charger; and the great Austrian Empire, Caesarian, heir to overlording Rome, having for the imperial colour... ...y belongs to it. The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a... ...and abominable, devilish re- bellion against the reverend clergy. For by a Portuguese Catho- lic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s going to Nineveh vi... ...t a little correspond to the central gateway opening into some vast walled empire: and considering the inexhaustible wealth of spices, and silks, and ...

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......................................................................335 THE EMPIRE OF THE ANTS ........................................................... ... Sturdy Boers, dusky Hottentots, Gold Coast negroes, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, stood in the warmth of the sunrise watching the setting of this... ...they may be, to send in their bill in their own time. 345 H.G . Wells THE EMPIRE OF THE ANTS WHEN C APTAIN G ERILLEAU received instructions to take h... ... a Creole, his conceptions of etiquette and disci- pline were pure-blooded Portuguese, and it was only to Holroyd, the Lancashire engineer who had com... ...sh was a negro stoker, who had them all wrong. The second in command was a Portuguese, da Cunha, who spoke French, but it was a different sort of Fren... ...g they became. Gerilleau abandoned his old themes almost suddenly, and the Portuguese lieutenant became a conversational figure; he knew something abo... ...ust as men had done by means of books and records, use weapons, form great empires, sustain a planned and organised war? Things came back to him that ... ...yd. “I have commanded you to go aboard,” he screamed to his subordinate in Portuguese. “If you do not go aboard forthwith it is mutiny—rank mutiny. Mu...

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...obe are the Nantucketer’s. For the sea is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires; other seamen having but a right of way through it. Merchant ships ... ...paltry and base. This is it, that for ever keeps God’s true princes of the Empire from the world’s hustings; and leaves the highest hon ors that this... ...ages? — The blast! the blast! Up, spine, and meet it! (Leaps to his feet.) Portuguese sailor. How the sea rolls swashing ’gainst the side! Stand by fo... ... flag bearing the one figure of a snow white charger; and the great Austrian Empire, Caesarian heir to overlording Rome, having for the imperial color t... ...lly belongs to it. The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a... ..., and abominable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy. For by a Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s going to Nineveh via ... ...mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding its subur... ...en bid for bid with the wealthiest Praetorians at the auction of the Roman empire (which was the world’s); and yet I owe for the flesh in the tongue I ...