Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pages |
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... strong passions and tried by strong temptations , committed great faults . But every person who takes a fair and enlightened view of his whole career must admit that our island , so fertile in heroes and statesmen , has scarcely ever ...
... strong passions and tried by strong temptations , committed great faults . But every person who takes a fair and enlightened view of his whole career must admit that our island , so fertile in heroes and statesmen , has scarcely ever ...
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... strong will and his fiery passions , sustained by a constitutional intrepi- dity which sometimes seemed hardly compatible with sound- ness of mind , had begun to cause great uneasiness to his family . " Fighting , " says one of his ...
... strong will and his fiery passions , sustained by a constitutional intrepi- dity which sometimes seemed hardly compatible with sound- ness of mind , had begun to cause great uneasiness to his family . " Fighting , " says one of his ...
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... strong detachment , under Clive , to rein- force the garrison of Trichinopoly . But just at this conjuncture , Major Lawrence arrived from England , and assumed the chief command . From the waywardness and impatience of control which ...
... strong detachment , under Clive , to rein- force the garrison of Trichinopoly . But just at this conjuncture , Major Lawrence arrived from England , and assumed the chief command . From the waywardness and impatience of control which ...
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... strong detachment was marching to re- lieve it from Chingleput . He took measures to prevent the enemy from learning that they were too late , laid an ambus- cade for them on the road , killed a hundred of them with one fire , took ...
... strong detachment was marching to re- lieve it from Chingleput . He took measures to prevent the enemy from learning that they were too late , laid an ambus- cade for them on the road , killed a hundred of them with one fire , took ...
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... strong by art or 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 ...
... strong by art or 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 ...
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