Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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... head failed to go off . This circumstance , it is said , affected him as a similar escape affected Wallenstein . After satisfying himself that the pistol was really well loaded , he burst forth into an exclama- tion that surely he was ...
... head failed to go off . This circumstance , it is said , affected him as a similar escape affected Wallenstein . After satisfying himself that the pistol was really well loaded , he burst forth into an exclama- tion that surely he was ...
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... Even the wretched phantom who still bore the im- perial title stooped to pay this ignominious black - mail . The camp - fires of one rapacious leader were seen from the walls of the palace of Delhi . Another , at the head LORD CLIVE . 13.
... Even the wretched phantom who still bore the im- perial title stooped to pay this ignominious black - mail . The camp - fires of one rapacious leader were seen from the walls of the palace of Delhi . Another , at the head LORD CLIVE . 13.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. the palace of Delhi . Another , at the head of his innumerable cavalry , descended year after year on the ricefields of Bengal . Even the European factors trembled for their magazines . Less than a hundred ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. the palace of Delhi . Another , at the head of his innumerable cavalry , descended year after year on the ricefields of Bengal . Even the European factors trembled for their magazines . Less than a hundred ...
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... heads of the English settlement , now thoroughly alarmed by the success of Dupleix , and apprehensive that , in the ... head of two hundred English soldiers , and three hundred sepoys armed and disciplined after the European fashion ...
... heads of the English settlement , now thoroughly alarmed by the success of Dupleix , and apprehensive that , in the ... head of two hundred English soldiers , and three hundred sepoys armed and disciplined after the European fashion ...
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... brave followers had perished round him , drank his latest draught of water , and uttered his latest prayer , how the assassins carried his head in triumph , how the tyrant smote the lifeless lips with his staff , 22 LORD CLIVE .
... brave followers had perished round him , drank his latest draught of water , and uttered his latest prayer , how the assassins carried his head in triumph , how the tyrant smote the lifeless lips with his staff , 22 LORD CLIVE .
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