Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... India Company , and shipped him off to make a fortune or to die of a fever at Madras . Far different were the prospects of Clive from those of the youths whom the East India College now annually sends to the Presidencies of our Asiatic ...
... India Company , and shipped him off to make a fortune or to die of a fever at Madras . Far different were the prospects of Clive from those of the youths whom the East India College now annually sends to the Presidencies of our Asiatic ...
Page 85
... India till more than a year after he had left England . His situ- ation at Madras was most painful . His funds were ex- hausted . His pay was small .. He had contracted debts . He was wretchedly lodged - no small calamity in a climate ...
... India till more than a year after he had left England . His situ- ation at Madras was most painful . His funds were ex- hausted . His pay was small .. He had contracted debts . He was wretchedly lodged - no small calamity in a climate ...
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... India , in spite of the opposition of the British fleet- landed ; assembled an army , appeared before Madras , and compelled the town and fort to capitulate . The keys were delivered up ; the French colours were displayed on Fort St ...
... India , in spite of the opposition of the British fleet- landed ; assembled an army , appeared before Madras , and compelled the town and fort to capitulate . The keys were delivered up ; the French colours were displayed on Fort St ...
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... India . He had been only a few months in the army when intel- ligence arrived that peace had been concluded between Great Britain and France . Dupleix was in consequence compelled to restore Madras to the English Company ; and the young ...
... India . He had been only a few months in the army when intel- ligence arrived that peace had been concluded between Great Britain and France . Dupleix was in consequence compelled to restore Madras to the English Company ; and the young ...
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... India poured forth a yet more for- midable race ; -a race which was long the terror of every native power , and which yielded only , after many desperate and doubtful struggles , to the fortune and genius of Eng land . It was under the ...
... India poured forth a yet more for- midable race ; -a race which was long the terror of every native power , and which yielded only , after many desperate and doubtful struggles , to the fortune and genius of Eng land . It was under the ...
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