Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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... gives his temper such a fierceness and imperiousness , that he flies out on every trifling occa- sion . " The old people of the neighbourhood still remember to have heard from their parents how Bob Clive climbed to the top of the lofty ...
... gives his temper such a fierceness and imperiousness , that he flies out on every trifling occa- sion . " The old people of the neighbourhood still remember to have heard from their parents how Bob Clive climbed to the top of the lofty ...
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... gives , under the name of advice , commands which are not to be dis- puted . There is still a Mogul , who is permitted to play at holding courts and receiving petitions , but who has less power to help or hurt than the youngest civil ...
... gives , under the name of advice , commands which are not to be dis- puted . There is still a Mogul , who is permitted to play at holding courts and receiving petitions , but who has less power to help or hurt than the youngest civil ...
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... give any promise without hesitation , and break any promise without shame , with men who would unscrupu- lously employ corruption , perjury , forgery , to compass their ends . His letters show that the great difference between Asiatic ...
... give any promise without hesitation , and break any promise without shame , with men who would unscrupu- lously employ corruption , perjury , forgery , to compass their ends . His letters show that the great difference between Asiatic ...
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... gives to its inmates a security like that enjoyed by the chief who , passing through the territories of powerful and deadly enemies , is armed with the British guarantee . The mightiest princes of the East can scarcely , by the offer of ...
... gives to its inmates a security like that enjoyed by the chief who , passing through the territories of powerful and deadly enemies , is armed with the British guarantee . The mightiest princes of the East can scarcely , by the offer of ...
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... give and receive presents ; and there was , as yet , no Act of Parliament positively prohibiting English functionaries in India from profiting by this Asiatic usage . This reasoning , we own , does not quite satisfy us . We do not ...
... give and receive presents ; and there was , as yet , no Act of Parliament positively prohibiting English functionaries in India from profiting by this Asiatic usage . This reasoning , we own , does not quite satisfy us . We do not ...
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