Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pages |
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... minister , Newcastle , weak , timid , jealous , and perfidious , was at once detested and despised by some of the most important members of his government , and by none more than by Henry Fox , the Secretary at War . This able , daring ...
... minister , Newcastle , weak , timid , jealous , and perfidious , was at once detested and despised by some of the most important members of his government , and by none more than by Henry Fox , the Secretary at War . This able , daring ...
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... minister . The contest was long and obstinate , and success seemed to lean some- times to one side and sometimes to ... Minister's friends . The consequence was that LORD CLIVE . 31.
... minister . The contest was long and obstinate , and success seemed to lean some- times to one side and sometimes to ... Minister's friends . The consequence was that LORD CLIVE . 31.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. with the Prime Minister's friends . The consequence was that the House , by a small majority , rescinded the decision of the committee , and Clive was unseated . Ejected from Parliament and straitened in his ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. with the Prime Minister's friends . The consequence was that the House , by a small majority , rescinded the decision of the committee , and Clive was unseated . Ejected from Parliament and straitened in his ...
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... ministers succeeded in making him understand that a ruler may sometimes find it more profitable to protect traders in the open enjoyment of their gains than to put them to the torture for the purpose of discovering hidden chests of gold ...
... ministers succeeded in making him understand that a ruler may sometimes find it more profitable to protect traders in the open enjoyment of their gains than to put them to the torture for the purpose of discovering hidden chests of gold ...
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... minister of finance , Meer Jaffier , the principal commander of the troops , and Jugget Seit , the richest banker in India . The plot was confided to the English agents , and a communica- tion was opened between the malcontents at ...
... minister of finance , Meer Jaffier , the principal commander of the troops , and Jugget Seit , the richest banker in India . The plot was confided to the English agents , and a communica- tion was opened between the malcontents at ...
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