Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pages |
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... energy of his bold and active mind . Of the provinces which had been subject to the House of Tamerlane , the wealthiest was Bengal . No part of India pos- sessed such natural advantages , both for agriculture and for 32 LORD CLIVE .
... energy of his bold and active mind . Of the provinces which had been subject to the House of Tamerlane , the wealthiest was Bengal . No part of India pos- sessed such natural advantages , both for agriculture and for 32 LORD CLIVE .
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. sessed such natural advantages , both for agriculture and for commerce . The Ganges , rushing ... nature . In spite of the Mussulman despot , and of the Mahratta freebooter , Bengal was known through the East as ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. sessed such natural advantages , both for agriculture and for commerce . The Ganges , rushing ... nature . In spite of the Mussulman despot , and of the Mahratta freebooter , Bengal was known through the East as ...
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... nature and by habit for a foreign yoke . The great commercial companies ofEurope had long pos- sessed factories in Bengal . The French were settled , as they still are , at Chandernagore on the Hoogley . Higher up the stream the Dutch ...
... nature and by habit for a foreign yoke . The great commercial companies ofEurope had long pos- sessed factories in Bengal . The French were settled , as they still are , at Chandernagore on the Hoogley . Higher up the stream the Dutch ...
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... nature , gives to its inmates a security like that enjoyed by the chief who , passing through the territories of powerful and deadly enemies , is armed with the British guarantee . The mightiest princes of the East can scarcely , by the ...
... nature , gives to its inmates a security like that enjoyed by the chief who , passing through the territories of powerful and deadly enemies , is armed with the British guarantee . The mightiest princes of the East can scarcely , by the ...
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... nature greatly re- sembled the wretched captive , was implacable . Surajah Dowlah was led into a secret chamber , to which in a short time the ministers of death were sent . In this act the English bore no part ; and Meer Jaffier ...
... nature greatly re- sembled the wretched captive , was implacable . Surajah Dowlah was led into a secret chamber , to which in a short time the ministers of death were sent . In this act the English bore no part ; and Meer Jaffier ...
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