Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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... prince designated by our an- cestors as the Great Mogul . Those names , once so august and formidable , still remain . There is still a Nabob of the Carnatic , who lives on a pension allowed to him by the Eng- lish out of the revenues ...
... prince designated by our an- cestors as the Great Mogul . Those names , once so august and formidable , still remain . There is still a Nabob of the Carnatic , who lives on a pension allowed to him by the Eng- lish out of the revenues ...
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... prince , or so large a revenue poured into the treasury . The beauty and magnificence of the buildings erected by the sovereigns of Hindostan , amazed even travellers who had seen St. Peter's . The innumerable retinues and gorgeous ...
... prince , or so large a revenue poured into the treasury . The beauty and magnificence of the buildings erected by the sovereigns of Hindostan , amazed even travellers who had seen St. Peter's . The innumerable retinues and gorgeous ...
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... princes of the royal house pro- duced a long series of crimes and public disasters . Ambitious lieutenants of the ... prince could effect , was hastening to dissolution . After his death , which took place in the year 1707 , the ruin was ...
... princes of the royal house pro- duced a long series of crimes and public disasters . Ambitious lieutenants of the ... prince could effect , was hastening to dissolution . After his death , which took place in the year 1707 , the ruin was ...
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... princes , who , nominally vassals , but really independent , long governed , with the titles of dukes , marquesses and counts , almost every part of the dominions which had obeyed Charlemagne . Such or nearly such was the change which ...
... princes , who , nominally vassals , but really independent , long governed , with the titles of dukes , marquesses and counts , almost every part of the dominions which had obeyed Charlemagne . Such or nearly such was the change which ...
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... princes . In this way originated those great Mussulman houses which formerly ruled Bengal and the Carnatic , and those which still , though in a state of vassalage , exercise some of the powers of royalty at Lucknow and Hyderabad . In ...
... princes . In this way originated those great Mussulman houses which formerly ruled Bengal and the Carnatic , and those which still , though in a state of vassalage , exercise some of the powers of royalty at Lucknow and Hyderabad . In ...
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