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Page 360
... Chief Justice Willes , if we remember rightly , went to him to beg some ecclesiastical preferment for a friend . Carteret said , that he was too much occupied with continental politics to think about the disposal of places and benefices ...
... Chief Justice Willes , if we remember rightly , went to him to beg some ecclesiastical preferment for a friend . Carteret said , that he was too much occupied with continental politics to think about the disposal of places and benefices ...
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... chiefs were in open insurrection against the new Nabob . The viceroy of the rich and powerful province of Oude , who ... chief , who , as a famous jester and an old friend of Meer Jaffier , could venture to take liberties , answered ...
... chiefs were in open insurrection against the new Nabob . The viceroy of the rich and powerful province of Oude , who ... chief , who , as a famous jester and an old friend of Meer Jaffier , could venture to take liberties , answered ...
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... chief advantage which the students of Oriental letters derived from his patronage remains to be mentioned . The Pundits of Bengal had always looked with great jealousy on the attempts of foreigners to pry into those mysteries which were ...
... chief advantage which the students of Oriental letters derived from his patronage remains to be mentioned . The Pundits of Bengal had always looked with great jealousy on the attempts of foreigners to pry into those mysteries which were ...
Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
Introduction by Douglas Jerrold | 18 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 405 |
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