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Page 370
... company , and the Spanish - jackass- company , and the quicksilver - fixation - company , Walpole's calm good sense preserved him from the general infatuation . He condemned the prevailing madness in public , and turned a considerable ...
... company , and the Spanish - jackass- company , and the quicksilver - fixation - company , Walpole's calm good sense preserved him from the general infatuation . He condemned the prevailing madness in public , and turned a considerable ...
Page 527
... Company . An apparent reconciliation took place after Clive's arrival ; but enmity remained deeply rooted in the ... Company had received their chief possessions in Bengal , and the Company had long acquiesced in it . The Directors ...
... Company . An apparent reconciliation took place after Clive's arrival ; but enmity remained deeply rooted in the ... Company had received their chief possessions in Bengal , and the Company had long acquiesced in it . The Directors ...
Page 528
... Company . But cruelty itself could hardly have produced greater evils than sprang from their unprincipled eagerness to be rich . They pulled down their creature , Meer Jaffier . They set up in his place another Nabob , named Meer Cossim ...
... Company . But cruelty itself could hardly have produced greater evils than sprang from their unprincipled eagerness to be rich . They pulled down their creature , Meer Jaffier . They set up in his place another Nabob , named Meer Cossim ...
Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
Introduction by Douglas Jerrold | 18 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 405 |
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