Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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Page 74
... judge will admit , that there was really nothing in common between the system which he set up and that which he was sent to destroy . The monopoly of salt had been a source of revenue to the govern- ments of India before Clive was born ...
... judge will admit , that there was really nothing in common between the system which he set up and that which he was sent to destroy . The monopoly of salt had been a source of revenue to the govern- ments of India before Clive was born ...
Page 78
... judge , he boasted with truth , that his last administration diminished instead of in- creasing his fortune . One large sum indeed he accepted . Meer Jaffier had left him by will above sixty thousand pounds sterling in specie and jewels ...
... judge , he boasted with truth , that his last administration diminished instead of in- creasing his fortune . One large sum indeed he accepted . Meer Jaffier had left him by will above sixty thousand pounds sterling in specie and jewels ...
Page 82
... judge , was the feeling of the country respecting Nabobs in general . And Clive was eminently the Nabob , the ablest , the most celebrated , the highest in rank , the highest in fortune , of all the fraternity . His wealth was exhibited ...
... judge , was the feeling of the country respecting Nabobs in general . And Clive was eminently the Nabob , the ablest , the most celebrated , the highest in rank , the highest in fortune , of all the fraternity . His wealth was exhibited ...
Page 85
... judges , and are still thrown by two or three old women , on the corn factors . It was , however , so loud and so general that it appears to have imposed even on an intellect raised so high above vulgar prejudices as that of Adam Smith ...
... judges , and are still thrown by two or three old women , on the corn factors . It was , however , so loud and so general that it appears to have imposed even on an intellect raised so high above vulgar prejudices as that of Adam Smith ...
Page 90
... judge who fixes his eye inexorably on one or two unjustifiable acts . Bruce the deliverer of Scotland , Maurice the deliverer of Germany , William the deliverer of Holland , his great descendant the deliverer of England , Murray the ...
... judge who fixes his eye inexorably on one or two unjustifiable acts . Bruce the deliverer of Scotland , Maurice the deliverer of Germany , William the deliverer of Holland , his great descendant the deliverer of England , Murray the ...
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