Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pages |
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... courts and receiving petitions , but who has less power to help or hurt than the youngest civil servant of the Company . Clive's voyage was unusually tedious even for that age . The ship remained some months at the Brazils , where the ...
... courts and receiving petitions , but who has less power to help or hurt than the youngest civil servant of the Company . Clive's voyage was unusually tedious even for that age . The ship remained some months at the Brazils , where the ...
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... Court of Delhi , there was no difficulty ; for he was so in theory . If it was convenient to consider his office as an hereditary dignity , or as a dignity held during life only , or as a dignity held only during the good pleasure of ...
... Court of Delhi , there was no difficulty ; for he was so in theory . If it was convenient to consider his office as an hereditary dignity , or as a dignity held during life only , or as a dignity held only during the good pleasure of ...
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... the pageant which followed , took precedence of all the court . He was declared Governor of India from the river Kristna to Macaulay , Essays . IV . 2 Cape Comorin , a country about as large as France LORD CLIVE . 17.
... the pageant which followed , took precedence of all the court . He was declared Governor of India from the river Kristna to Macaulay , Essays . IV . 2 Cape Comorin , a country about as large as France LORD CLIVE . 17.
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... court of that prince . Among the of- ficers who remained with Dupleix , there was not a single man of capacity ; and many of them were boys , at whose ignorance and folly the common soldiers laughed . The English triumphed everywhere ...
... court of that prince . Among the of- ficers who remained with Dupleix , there was not a single man of capacity ; and many of them were boys , at whose ignorance and folly the common soldiers laughed . The English triumphed everywhere ...
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... was peculiarly qualified to serve as a medium of communication between them and a native court . He possessed great influence with his own race , and had in large measure the Hindoo talents , quick observation LORD CLIVE . 4I.
... was peculiarly qualified to serve as a medium of communication between them and a native court . He possessed great influence with his own race , and had in large measure the Hindoo talents , quick observation LORD CLIVE . 4I.
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