Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pages |
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... a horse - soldier as a monster , half man and half beast , who took a harque- busier for a sorcerer , able to scatter the thunder and lightning Macaulay , Essays . IV . I of the skies . The people of India , when LORD CLIVE.
... a horse - soldier as a monster , half man and half beast , who took a harque- busier for a sorcerer , able to scatter the thunder and lightning Macaulay , Essays . IV . I of the skies . The people of India , when LORD CLIVE.
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... took the opposite side . Though England was even then the first of maritime powers , she was not , as she has since become , more than a match on the sea for all the nations of the world together ; and she found it difficult to maintain ...
... took the opposite side . Though England was even then the first of maritime powers , she was not , as she has since become , more than a match on the sea for all the nations of the world together ; and she found it difficult to maintain ...
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... took refuge at Fort St. David , one of the small English settlements subordinate to Madras . The circumstances in which he was now placed naturally led him to adopt a profession better suited to his restless and intrepid spirit than the ...
... took refuge at Fort St. David , one of the small English settlements subordinate to Madras . The circumstances in which he was now placed naturally led him to adopt a profession better suited to his restless and intrepid spirit than the ...
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... took place which decided his choice . The politics of India assumed a new aspect . There was peace between the English and French Crowns ; but there arose between the English and French Companies trading to the East a war most eventful ...
... took place which decided his choice . The politics of India assumed a new aspect . There was peace between the English and French Crowns ; but there arose between the English and French Companies trading to the East a war most eventful ...
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... took place in the year 1707 , the ruin was fearfully rapid . Violent shocks from without co - operated with an incurable decay which was fast proceeding within ; and in a few years the empire had un- dergone utter decomposition . The ...
... took place in the year 1707 , the ruin was fearfully rapid . Violent shocks from without co - operated with an incurable decay which was fast proceeding within ; and in a few years the empire had un- dergone utter decomposition . The ...
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