Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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... effect of the book , even when we make the largest allowance for the partiality of those who have furnished and of those who have digested the materials , is , on the whole , greatly to raise the character of Lord Clive . We are far in ...
... effect of the book , even when we make the largest allowance for the partiality of those who have furnished and of those who have digested the materials , is , on the whole , greatly to raise the character of Lord Clive . We are far in ...
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... effect , was hastening to dissolution . After his death , which took place in the year 1707 , the ruin was fearfully rapid . Violent shocks from without co - operated with an incurable decay which was fast proceeding within ; and in a ...
... effect , was hastening to dissolution . After his death , which took place in the year 1707 , the ruin was fearfully rapid . Violent shocks from without co - operated with an incurable decay which was fast proceeding within ; and in a ...
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... effect of mental excitement . They believe that whoever , during this festival , falls in arms against the infidels , atones by his death for all the sins of his life , and passes at once to the garden of the Houris . It was at this ...
... effect of mental excitement . They believe that whoever , during this festival , falls in arms against the infidels , atones by his death for all the sins of his life , and passes at once to the garden of the Houris . It was at this ...
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... race from the British whom they found elsewhere . The effect of this languor was that in no long time Rajah Sahib , at the head of a considerable army , in which were four hundred French troops , appeared almost under 24 LORD CLIVE .
... race from the British whom they found elsewhere . The effect of this languor was that in no long time Rajah Sahib , at the head of a considerable army , in which were four hundred French troops , appeared almost under 24 LORD CLIVE .
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... effect , with eminent ability and valour , the plans of others . Henceforth he is to be chiefly regarded as a states- man ; and his military movements are to be considered as sub- ordinate to his political designs . That in his new ...
... effect , with eminent ability and valour , the plans of others . Henceforth he is to be chiefly regarded as a states- man ; and his military movements are to be considered as sub- ordinate to his political designs . That in his new ...
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