Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3Hurd and Houghton, 1874 |
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... English . The defenceless settlement of Cossimbazar , lying close to the tyrant's capital , was instantly seized . Hastings was sent a prisoner to Moorshedabad , but , in conse- quence of the humane intervention of the servants of the ...
... English . The defenceless settlement of Cossimbazar , lying close to the tyrant's capital , was instantly seized . Hastings was sent a prisoner to Moorshedabad , but , in conse- quence of the humane intervention of the servants of the ...
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... English power came among them unaccom- panied by English morality . There was an interval between the time at which they became our subjects , and the time at which we began to reflect that we were bound to discharge towards them the ...
... English power came among them unaccom- panied by English morality . There was an interval between the time at which they became our subjects , and the time at which we began to reflect that we were bound to discharge towards them the ...
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... English power came among them unaccom- panied by English morality . There was an interval between the time at which they became our subjects , and the time at which we began to reflect that we were bound to discharge towards them the ...
... English power came among them unaccom- panied by English morality . There was an interval between the time at which they became our subjects , and the time at which we began to reflect that we were bound to discharge towards them the ...
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... English gentleman ; and he drew up a plan with that view . It is said that the University of Oxford , in which Oriental learning had never , since the revival of letters , been wholly neglected , was to be the seat of the institution ...
... English gentleman ; and he drew up a plan with that view . It is said that the University of Oxford , in which Oriental learning had never , since the revival of letters , been wholly neglected , was to be the seat of the institution ...
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... English masters of the country was that which their own justice and humanity imposed on them . There was no constitu- tional check on their will , and resistance to them was utterly hopeless . But though thus absolute in reality , the ...
... English masters of the country was that which their own justice and humanity imposed on them . There was no constitu- tional check on their will , and resistance to them was utterly hopeless . But though thus absolute in reality , the ...
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