 The people of India, when we subdued them, were ten times as numerous as the Americans whom the Spaniards vanquished, and were at the same time quite as highly civilized as the victorious Spaniards. They had reared cities larger and fairer than Saragossa...  History of India - Page 215by William C. Pearce - 1876 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...times as numerous as the vanquished Americans, and were at the same time quite as highly civilized and the commiltee. The odious vices of Surajah Dowlah,...hands, the dangers to which our trade must have been (Jadiz; viceroys whose splendour far surpassed that of Ferdinand the Catholic ; myriads of cavalry... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 466 pages
...were at the same time quite as highly eivilized as the vietorious Spaniards. They had reared eities larger and fairer than Saragossa or Toledo, and buildings more beautiful and eostly than the eathedral of Seville. They eould show bankers rieher than the riehest firms of Bareelona... | |
 | Edward McDermott - 1862 - 338 pages
...merchants and the valour of British soldiers \ and at the time when we subdued them, the people of India were, ten times as numerous as the Americans, whom the Spaniards vanquished ; and Macaulay reminds us that they were at the same time as highly civilised as the victorious Spaniards,... | |
 | Edward McDermott (of Camberwell.) - 1862 - 340 pages
...civilised as the victorious Spaniards, and that they had reared cities larger and fairer than Saragossa and Toledo, and buildings more beautiful and costly than the cathedral of Seville — could show bankers richer than the richest firms of Barcelona or Cadiz, viceroys whose splendour... | |
 | Sir Edward Robert Sullivan - 1866 - 558 pages
...Olive and Warren Hastings contain the following passages : " The people of India, when we subdued them, were ten times as numerous as the Americans whom the...highly civilised as the victorious Spaniards. They had raised cities larger and fairer than Saragossa or Toledo, and buildings more beautiful and costly than... | |
 | William Dool Killen - 1875 - 586 pages
...sunk in the grossest pagan superstition ; and yet even then, as Lord Macaulay has remarked, they had "cities larger and fairer than Saragossa or Toledo,...beautiful and costly than the Cathedral of Seville." — Essays. " Lord Give." s He built the Nunnt-y of St. Mary de Hogges, near Dublin, in 1146 ; in 1151... | |
 | William Dool Killen - 1875 - 580 pages
...sunk in the grossest pagan superstition ; and yet even then, as Lord Macaulay has remarked, they had " cities larger and fairer than Saragossa or Toledo,...buildings more beautiful and costly than the Cathedral of Seville."—Essays. "Lord Clive." • He built the Nunnt.-y of St. Mary de Hogges, near Dublin, in... | |
 | William Dool Killen - 1875 - 572 pages
...sunk in the grossest pagan superstition ; and yet even then, as Lord Macaulay has remarked, they had " cities larger and fairer than Saragossa or Toledo,...buildings more beautiful and costly than the Cathedral of Seville."—Essays. " Lord Clive." a He built the Nunnery of St. Mary de Hogges, near Dublin, in 1146... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 pages
...able to scatter the thunder and lightning of the skies. The people of India, when we subdued them, were ten times as numerous as the Americans whom the Spaniards vanquished, and were at the snmc time quite as highly civilised as the victorious Spaniards. They had reared cities larger and... | |
 | William Dool Killen - 1875 - 574 pages
...sunk in the grossest pagan superstition ; and yet even then, as Lord Macaulay has remarked. they had " cities larger and fairer than Saragossa or Toledo, and buildings more beautiful and coolly than the Cathedral of Seville." — Essays. "Lord dive." * He built the Nunnery of St Mary de... | |
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