Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pages |
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... East should , even among ourselves , excite little inter- est . Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma , and who strangled Atahualpa . But we doubt whether one in ten , even among English gentlemen of highly cultivated minds ...
... East should , even among ourselves , excite little inter- est . Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma , and who strangled Atahualpa . But we doubt whether one in ten , even among English gentlemen of highly cultivated minds ...
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... East India 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 ...
... East India 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 ...
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... East , with the rapidity of the prophet's gourd . There were already in the suburbs many white villas , each surrounded by its gar- den , whither the wealthy agents of the Company retired , after the labours of the desk and the ...
... East , with the rapidity of the prophet's gourd . There were already in the suburbs many white villas , each surrounded by its gar- den , whither the wealthy agents of the Company retired , after the labours of the desk and the ...
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... Eastern seas France obtained the ascendency . Labourdon- nais , governor of Mauritius , a man of eminent talents and vir- tues , conducted an expedition to the continent of India in spite of the opposition of the British fleet , landed ...
... Eastern seas France obtained the ascendency . Labourdon- nais , governor of Mauritius , a man of eminent talents and vir- tues , conducted an expedition to the continent of India in spite of the opposition of the British fleet , landed ...
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... East a war most eventful and important , a war in which the prize was nothing less than the magnificent inheritance of the house of Tamerlane . The empire which Baber and his Moguls reared in the six- teenth century was long one of the ...
... East a war most eventful and important , a war in which the prize was nothing less than the magnificent inheritance of the house of Tamerlane . The empire which Baber and his Moguls reared in the six- teenth century was long one of the ...
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