Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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... century , on an estate of no great value , near Market - Drayton , in Shropshire . In the reign of George the First , this moderate but ancient inheritance was possessed by Mr. Richard Clive , who seems to have been a plain man of no ...
... century , on an estate of no great value , near Market - Drayton , in Shropshire . In the reign of George the First , this moderate but ancient inheritance was possessed by Mr. Richard Clive , who seems to have been a plain man of no ...
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... century , Fort St. George had arisen on a barren spot beaten by a raging surf ; and in the neighbourhood a town , inhabited by many thousands of na- tives , had sprung up , as towns spring up in the East , with the rapidity of the ...
... century , Fort St. George had arisen on a barren spot beaten by a raging surf ; and in the neighbourhood a town , inhabited by many thousands of na- tives , had sprung up , as towns spring up in the East , with the rapidity of the ...
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... 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 , or so large a revenue poured into the treasury . The beauty and magnificence of the ...
... 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 , or so large a revenue poured into the treasury . The beauty and magnificence of the ...
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... centuries ? Was it to terminate in the rise of an- other great monarchy ? Was the Mussulman or the Mahratta to be the Lord of India ? Was another Baber to descend from the mountains , and to lead the hardy tribes of Cabul and Chorasan ...
... centuries ? Was it to terminate in the rise of an- other great monarchy ? Was the Mussulman or the Mahratta to be the Lord of India ? Was another Baber to descend from the mountains , and to lead the hardy tribes of Cabul and Chorasan ...
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... centuries , the recurrence of this solemn season excites the fiercest and saddest emotions in the bosoms of the devout Moslem of India . They work themselves up to such agonies of rage and lamentation that some , it is said , have given ...
... centuries , the recurrence of this solemn season excites the fiercest and saddest emotions in the bosoms of the devout Moslem of India . They work themselves up to such agonies of rage and lamentation that some , it is said , have given ...
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