Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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Page 17
... churches . The new Nizam came thither to visit his allies ; and the ceremony of his instal- lation was performed there with great pomp . Dupleix , dressed in the garb worn by Mahommedans of the highest rank , en- tered the town in the ...
... churches . The new Nizam came thither to visit his allies ; and the ceremony of his instal- lation was performed there with great pomp . Dupleix , dressed in the garb worn by Mahommedans of the highest rank , en- tered the town in the ...
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... church and ample warehouses rose in the vicinity . A row of spacious houses , belonging to the chief factors of the East India Company , lined the banks of the river ; and in the neighbourhood had sprung up a large and busy native town ...
... church and ample warehouses rose in the vicinity . A row of spacious houses , belonging to the chief factors of the East India Company , lined the banks of the river ; and in the neighbourhood had sprung up a large and busy native town ...
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... Church of Rome , having lost a large part of Europe , not only ceased to lose , but actually regained nearly half of what she had lost , is certainly a most curious and important question ; and on this Macaulay , Essays . IV . 7 ...
... Church of Rome , having lost a large part of Europe , not only ceased to lose , but actually regained nearly half of what she had lost , is certainly a most curious and important question ; and on this Macaulay , Essays . IV . 7 ...
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... Church . The history of that Church joins together the two great ages of human civilization . No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon , and when ...
... Church . The history of that Church joins together the two great ages of human civilization . No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon , and when ...
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... Church of Rome . We cannot , therefore , feel confident that the progress of knowledge will necessarily be fatal to a system which has , to say the least , stood its ground in spite of the immense pro- gress made by the human race in ...
... Church of Rome . We cannot , therefore , feel confident that the progress of knowledge will necessarily be fatal to a system which has , to say the least , stood its ground in spite of the immense pro- gress made by the human race in ...
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