Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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... empire in America is familiarly known to all the nations of Europe , the great actions of our countrymen in the East should , even among ourselves , excite little interest . Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma , and who ...
... empire in America is familiarly known to all the nations of Europe , the great actions of our countrymen in the East should , even among ourselves , excite little interest . Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma , and who ...
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... 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. Mill's book , though it has undoubtedly great ...
... 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. Mill's book , though it has undoubtedly great ...
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... eldest son , Robert , the founder of the British empire in India , was born at the old seat of his ancestors on the twenty- ninth of September , 1725 . Some lineaments of the character of the man were early 1 * LORD CLIVE .
... eldest son , Robert , the founder of the British empire in India , was born at the old seat of his ancestors on the twenty- ninth of September , 1725 . Some lineaments of the character of the man were early 1 * LORD CLIVE .
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... Clive from those of the youths whom the East India College now annually sends to the Presidencies of our Asiatic empire . The Company was then purely a trading corporation . Its territory consisted of a 4 LORD CLIVE .
... Clive from those of the youths whom the East India College now annually sends to the Presidencies of our Asiatic empire . The Company was then purely a trading corporation . Its territory consisted of a 4 LORD CLIVE .
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... 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 , or so large a revenue ...
... 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 , or so large a revenue ...
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