Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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... conduct the judicial , financial , and diplomatic business of a great country , but to take stock , to make ad- vances to weavers , to ship cargoes , and above all to keep an eye on private traders who dared to infringe the monopoly ...
... conduct the judicial , financial , and diplomatic business of a great country , but to take stock , to make ad- vances to weavers , to ship cargoes , and above all to keep an eye on private traders who dared to infringe the monopoly ...
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... conducted an expedition to the continent of India in spite of the opposition of the British fleet , landed , assembled an army , appeared before Madras , and compelled the town and fort to capitulate . The keys were delivered up ; the ...
... conducted an expedition to the continent of India in spite of the opposition of the British fleet , landed , assembled an army , appeared before Madras , and compelled the town and fort to capitulate . The keys were delivered up ; the ...
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... conduct every thing as it fell out ; a man of an undaunted resolution , of a cool temper , and of a presence of mind which never left him in the greatest danger born a soldier ; for , without a military education of any sort , or much ...
... conduct every thing as it fell out ; a man of an undaunted resolution , of a cool temper , and of a presence of mind which never left him in the greatest danger born a soldier ; for , without a military education of any sort , or much ...
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... conduct of his hero . But we can as little agree with Mr. Mill , who has gone so far as to say that Clive was a man " to whom deception , when it suited his purpose , never cost a pang . " Clive seems to us to have been constitutionally ...
... conduct of his hero . But we can as little agree with Mr. Mill , who has gone so far as to say that Clive was a man " to whom deception , when it suited his purpose , never cost a pang . " Clive seems to us to have been constitutionally ...
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... conduct of Clive . There is no Act that we know of , prohibiting the Secretary of State for foreign Affairs from being in the pay of continental powers . But it is not the less true that a Secretary who should receive a secret pension ...
... conduct of Clive . There is no Act that we know of , prohibiting the Secretary of State for foreign Affairs from being in the pay of continental powers . But it is not the less true that a Secretary who should receive a secret pension ...
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