A History of the Mahrattas v1.c19.149

v1.c19.149

‘ At all which I very much admire, especially when I find your Excellency persuaded that I have been the cause of the past differences and disputes, the truth of which your Excellency will soon find when you examine both sides ; for as touching the desire of possessing what is another’s, I do not find the merchants exempt from this sort of ambition, for this is the way of the world ; for God gives nothing immediately from himself, but takes from one to give to another. Whether this is right or no, who is able to determine ?