Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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... interest . Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma , and who strangled Atahualpa . But we doubt whether one in ten , even among English gentlemen of highly cultivated minds , can tell who won the battle of Buxar , who perpetrated ...
... interest . Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma , and who strangled Atahualpa . But we doubt whether one in ten , even among English gentlemen of highly cultivated minds , can tell who won the battle of Buxar , who perpetrated ...
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... interest in any part of history would be curious to know how a handful of his countrymen , separated from their home by an immense ocean , subjugated , in the course of a few years , one of the greatest empires in the world . Yet ...
... interest in any part of history would be curious to know how a handful of his countrymen , separated from their home by an immense ocean , subjugated , in the course of a few years , one of the greatest empires in the world . Yet ...
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... to make out something like a claim of right . In a society altogether disorganized , they had no difficulty in finding greedy adventurers to follow their stand- ards . They united their interests , invaded the Carnatic 16 LORD CLIVE .
... to make out something like a claim of right . In a society altogether disorganized , they had no difficulty in finding greedy adventurers to follow their stand- ards . They united their interests , invaded the Carnatic 16 LORD CLIVE .
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. ards . They united their interests , invaded the Carnatic , and applied for assistance to the French , whose fame had been raised by their success against the English in the recent war on the coast of ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. ards . They united their interests , invaded the Carnatic , and applied for assistance to the French , whose fame had been raised by their success against the English in the recent war on the coast of ...
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... interests , and those of France , at the court of that prince . Among the of- ficers who remained with Dupleix , there was not a single man of capacity ; and many of them were boys , at whose ignorance and folly the common soldiers ...
... interests , and those of France , at the court of that prince . Among the of- ficers who remained with Dupleix , there was not a single man of capacity ; and many of them were boys , at whose ignorance and folly the common soldiers ...
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