Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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... house of Bourbon took the opposite side . Though England was even then the first of maritime powers , she was not , as she has since become , more than a match on the sea for all the nations of the world together ; and she found it ...
... house of Bourbon took the opposite side . Though England was even then the first of maritime powers , she was not , as she has since become , more than a match on the sea for all the nations of the world together ; and she found it ...
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... house of Tamerlane . The empire which Babet and his Moguls reared in the six- teenth century was long one of the most extensive and splen- did in the world . In no European kingdom was so large a po- pulation subject to a single prince ...
... house of Tamerlane . The empire which Babet and his Moguls reared in the six- teenth century was long one of the most extensive and splen- did in the world . In no European kingdom was so large a po- pulation subject to a single prince ...
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... house pro- duced a long series of crimes and public disasters . Ambitious lieutenants of the sovereign sometimes aspired to indepen- dence . Fierce tribes of Hindoos , impatient of a foreign yoke , frequently withheld tribute , repelled ...
... house pro- duced a long series of crimes and public disasters . Ambitious lieutenants of the sovereign sometimes aspired to indepen- dence . Fierce tribes of Hindoos , impatient of a foreign yoke , frequently withheld tribute , repelled ...
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... house of Tamerlane ; as a Count of Flanders or a Duke of Burgundy might have acknowledged the superiority of the ... houses which formerly ruled Bengal and the Carnatic , and those which still , though in a state of vassalage , exercise ...
... house of Tamerlane ; as a Count of Flanders or a Duke of Burgundy might have acknowledged the superiority of the ... houses which formerly ruled Bengal and the Carnatic , and those which still , though in a state of vassalage , exercise ...
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... house was raised to the throne by French influence , and ratified all the promises of his pre- decessor . Dupleix was now the greatest potentate in India . His countrymen boasted that his name was mentioned with awe even in the chambers ...
... house was raised to the throne by French influence , and ratified all the promises of his pre- decessor . Dupleix was now the greatest potentate in India . His countrymen boasted that his name was mentioned with awe even in the chambers ...
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