Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pages |
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... minds , can tell who won the battle of Buxar , who perpetrated the massacre of Patna , whether Surajah Dowlah ruled in Oude or in Travancore , or whether Holkar was a Hindoo or a Mussul- man . Yet the victories of Cortes were gained ...
... minds , can tell who won the battle of Buxar , who perpetrated the massacre of Patna , whether Surajah Dowlah ruled in Oude or in Travancore , or whether Holkar was a Hindoo or a Mussul- man . Yet the victories of Cortes were gained ...
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... mind , had begun to cause great uneasiness to his family . " Fighting , " says one of his uncles , " to which he is out of measure addicted , gives his temper such a fierceness and imperiousness , that he flies out on every trifling oc ...
... mind , had begun to cause great uneasiness to his family . " Fighting , " says one of his uncles , " to which he is out of measure addicted , gives his temper such a fierceness and imperiousness , that he flies out on every trifling oc ...
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... mind had formed this scheme , at a time when the ablest servants of the English Company were busied only about invoices and bills of lading . Nor had he only proposed to himself the end . He had also a just and distinct view of the ...
... mind had formed this scheme , at a time when the ablest servants of the English Company were busied only about invoices and bills of lading . Nor had he only proposed to himself the end . He had also a just and distinct view of the ...
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... mind . An attempt made by the government of Madras to relieve the place had failed . But there was hope from another quarter . A body of six thousand Mahrattas , half soldiers , half robbers , under the command of a chief named Morari ...
... mind . An attempt made by the government of Madras to relieve the place had failed . But there was hope from another quarter . A body of six thousand Mahrattas , half soldiers , half robbers , under the command of a chief named Morari ...
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... mind of India under a spell . This spell it was Clive's business to break . The natives had been taught that France was con- fessedly the first power in Europe , and that the English did not presume to dispute her supremacy . No measure ...
... mind of India under a spell . This spell it was Clive's business to break . The natives had been taught that France was con- fessedly the first power in Europe , and that the English did not presume to dispute her supremacy . No measure ...
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