Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pages |
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... 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 the East , with the rapidity of the ...
... 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 the East , with the rapidity of the ...
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... century was long one of the most extensive and splen- did in the world . In no European kingdom was so large a population subject to a single prince , or so large a revenue poured into the treasury . The beauty and magnificence of the ...
... century was long one of the most extensive and splen- did in the world . In no European kingdom was so large a population subject to a single prince , or so large a revenue poured into the treasury . The beauty and magnificence of the ...
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... centuries ? Was it to terminate in the rise of an- other great monarchy ? Was the Mussulman or the Mahratta to be the Lord of India ? Was another Baber to descend from the mountains , and to lead the hardy tribes of Cabul and Chorasan ...
... centuries ? Was it to terminate in the rise of an- other great monarchy ? Was the Mussulman or the Mahratta to be the Lord of India ? Was another Baber to descend from the mountains , and to lead the hardy tribes of Cabul and Chorasan ...
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... centuries , the recurrence of this solemn season excites the fiercest and saddest emotions in the bosoms of the devout Moslems of India . They work themselves up to such agonies of rage and lamentation that some , it is said , have ...
... centuries , the recurrence of this solemn season excites the fiercest and saddest emotions in the bosoms of the devout Moslems of India . They work themselves up to such agonies of rage and lamentation that some , it is said , have ...
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... Centuries . By LEOPOLD VON RANKE , Professor in the University Translated from the German , by SARAH AUSTIN . 3 vols . 8vo . London : 1840 . IT is hardly necessary for us to say that this is an ex- cellent book excellently translated ...
... Centuries . By LEOPOLD VON RANKE , Professor in the University Translated from the German , by SARAH AUSTIN . 3 vols . 8vo . London : 1840 . IT is hardly necessary for us to say that this is an ex- cellent book excellently translated ...
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