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... CHURCH AND STATE • LORD CLIVE VON RANKE LEIGH HUNT LORD HOLLAND . · WARREN HASTINGS FREDERIC THE GREAT • PAGE 1 36 • 76 · 135 246 • 326 · 381 454 • 490 • 533 543 • 645 t CRITICAL AND AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH.
... CHURCH AND STATE • LORD CLIVE VON RANKE LEIGH HUNT LORD HOLLAND . · WARREN HASTINGS FREDERIC THE GREAT • PAGE 1 36 • 76 · 135 246 • 326 · 381 454 • 490 • 533 543 • 645 t CRITICAL AND AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH.
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... Clive , Pondicherry to Coote . Throughout Bengal , Bahar , Orissa , and the Carnatic , the authority of the East India Company was more absolute than that of Acbar or Aurungzebe had ever been . On the Continent of Europe the odds were ...
... Clive , Pondicherry to Coote . Throughout Bengal , Bahar , Orissa , and the Carnatic , the authority of the East India Company was more absolute than that of Acbar or Aurungzebe had ever been . On the Continent of Europe the odds were ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Lady Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan. LORD CLIVE . ( JANUARY , 1840. ) The Life of Robert Lord Clive ; collected from the Family Papers , communicated by the Earl of Powis . BY MAJOR - GENERAL SIR ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Lady Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan. LORD CLIVE . ( JANUARY , 1840. ) The Life of Robert Lord Clive ; collected from the Family Papers , communicated by the Earl of Powis . BY MAJOR - GENERAL SIR ...
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... Clive than in any other part of his valuable work . Clive , like most men who are born with strong passions and tried by strong temptations , committed great faults . But every per- son who takes a fair and enlightened view of his whole ...
... Clive than in any other part of his valuable work . Clive , like most men who are born with strong passions and tried by strong temptations , committed great faults . But every per- son who takes a fair and enlightened view of his whole ...
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... Clive climbed to the top of the lofty steeple of Market - Drayton , and with what terror the inhabitants saw him seated on a stone spout near the summit . They also relate how he formed all the idle lads of the town into a kind of ...
... Clive climbed to the top of the lofty steeple of Market - Drayton , and with what terror the inhabitants saw him seated on a stone spout near the summit . They also relate how he formed all the idle lads of the town into a kind of ...
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Page 242 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 106 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 455 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 242 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 628 - Every step in the proceedings carried the mind either backward, through many troubled centuries, to the days when the foundations of our Constitution were laid ; or far away, over boundless seas and deserts, to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters from right to left.
Page 122 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
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Page 479 - Place Ignatius Loyola at Oxford. He is certain to become the head of a formidable secession. Place John Wesley at Rome. He is certain to be the first General of a new society devoted to the interests and honour of the Church.
Page 632 - House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
Page 328 - ... remarkable analogy to his mode of thinking, and indeed exercises great influence on his mode of thinking. His rhetoric, though often good of its kind, darkens and perplexes the logic which it should illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator, — a vast command of a kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import, — of...