Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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... Europe , the great actions of our countrymen in the East should , even among ourselves , excite little interest . Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma , and who strangled Atahualpa . But we doubt whether one in ten , even ...
... Europe , the great actions of our countrymen in the East should , even among ourselves , excite little interest . Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma , and who strangled Atahualpa . But we doubt whether one in ten , even ...
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... Europe , and were armed , some with swords and shields , some with bows and arrows . The business of the servant of the Company was not , as now , to conduct the judicial , financial , and diplomatic business of a great country , but to ...
... Europe , and were armed , some with swords and shields , some with bows and arrows . The business of the servant of the Company was not , as now , to conduct the judicial , financial , and diplomatic business of a great country , but to ...
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... Europe than at present . The voyage by the Cape , which in our time has often been performed within three months , was then very seldom accomplished in six , and was sometimes protracted to more than a year . Consequently , the Anglo ...
... Europe than at present . The voyage by the Cape , which in our time has often been performed within three months , was then very seldom accomplished in six , and was sometimes protracted to more than a year . Consequently , the Anglo ...
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... European only by spacious and well - placed apart- .ments . He had been furnished with letters of recommenda- tion to a gentleman who might have assisted him ; but when he landed at Fort St. George he found that this gentleman had ...
... European only by spacious and well - placed apart- .ments . He had been furnished with letters of recommenda- tion to a gentleman who might have assisted him ; but when he landed at Fort St. George he found that this gentleman had ...
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... Europe had been , during some years , distracted by the war of the Austrian succession . George the Second was the steady ally of Maria Theresa . The house of Bourbon took the opposite side . Though England was even then the first of ...
... Europe had been , during some years , distracted by the war of the Austrian succession . George the Second was the steady ally of Maria Theresa . The house of Bourbon took the opposite side . Though England was even then the first of ...
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