Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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... course of a few years , one of the greatest empires in the world . Yet , unless we greatly err , this subject is , to most readers , not only insipid but positively distasteful . Perhaps the fault lies partly with the historians . Mr ...
... course of a few years , one of the greatest empires in the world . Yet , unless we greatly err , this subject is , to most readers , not only insipid but positively distasteful . Perhaps the fault lies partly with the historians . Mr ...
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... course with 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 ...
... course with 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 ...
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... course of about two years . He lived splendidly , dressed gaily even for those times , kept a carriage and saddle horses , and , not content with these ways of getting rid of his money , resorted to the most speedy and effectual of all ...
... course of about two years . He lived splendidly , dressed gaily even for those times , kept a carriage and saddle horses , and , not content with these ways of getting rid of his money , resorted to the most speedy and effectual of all ...
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... course . The remnant of the Tory Opposition , contemptible as it was , had yet sufficient weight to turn the scale between the nicely - ba- lanced parties of Newcastle and Fox . Newcastle the Tories could only despise . Fox they hated ...
... course . The remnant of the Tory Opposition , contemptible as it was , had yet sufficient weight to turn the scale between the nicely - ba- lanced parties of Newcastle and Fox . Newcastle the Tories could only despise . Fox they hated ...
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... Course , which is now daily crowded at sunset with the gayest equipages of Calcutta . For the ground on which the settlement stood , the English , like other great landholders , paid rent to the government ; and they were , like other ...
... Course , which is now daily crowded at sunset with the gayest equipages of Calcutta . For the ground on which the settlement stood , the English , like other great landholders , paid rent to the government ; and they were , like other ...
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