Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pages |
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... Company , and shipped him off to make a fortune or to die of a fever at Madras . Far different were the prospects of Clive from those of the youths whom the East India College now annually sends to the Presidencies of our Asiatic empire ...
... Company , and shipped him off to make a fortune or to die of a fever at Madras . Far different were the prospects of Clive from those of the youths whom the East India College now annually sends to the Presidencies of our Asiatic empire ...
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... Company's settlements . In the preceding century , Fort St. George had arisen on a barren spot beaten by a raging surf ; and in the neighbourhood a town , inhabited by many thousands of na- tives , had sprung up , as towns spring up in ...
... Company's settlements . In the preceding century , Fort St. George had arisen on a barren spot beaten by a raging surf ; and in the neighbourhood a town , inhabited by many thousands of na- tives , had sprung up , as towns spring up in ...
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... Company . Clive's voyage was unusually tedious even for that age . The ship remained some months at the Brazils , where the young adventurer picked up some knowledge of Portuguese and spent all his pocket - money . He did not arrive in ...
... Company . Clive's voyage was unusually tedious even for that age . The ship remained some months at the Brazils , where the young adventurer picked up some knowledge of Portuguese and spent all his pocket - money . He did not arrive in ...
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... Company's warehouses were seized as prize of war by the conquerors . It was stipulated by the capitulation that the English inhabitants should be prisoners of war on parole , and that the town should remain in the hands of the French ...
... Company's warehouses were seized as prize of war by the conquerors . It was stipulated by the capitulation that the English inhabitants should be prisoners of war on parole , and that the town should remain in the hands of the French ...
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... Company . The Governor and several of the first gentlemen of Fort St. George were carried under a guard to Pondicherry , and conducted through the town in a triumphal procession under the eyes of fifty thousand spec- tators . It was ...
... Company . The Governor and several of the first gentlemen of Fort St. George were carried under a guard to Pondicherry , and conducted through the town in a triumphal procession under the eyes of fifty thousand spec- tators . It was ...
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