Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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Page 13
... rule was wasted by their incursions . Wherever their kettle- drums were heard , the peasant threw his bag of rice on his shoulder , hid his small savings in his girdle , and fled with his wife and children to the mountains or the ...
... rule was wasted by their incursions . Wherever their kettle- drums were heard , the peasant threw his bag of rice on his shoulder , hid his small savings in his girdle , and fled with his wife and children to the mountains or the ...
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... rule under their names the whole of southern India ; this was indeed an attractive pro- spect . He allied himself with the pretenders , and sent four hundred French soldiers , and two thousand sepoys , dis- ciplined after the European ...
... rule under their names the whole of southern India ; this was indeed an attractive pro- spect . He allied himself with the pretenders , and sent four hundred French soldiers , and two thousand sepoys , dis- ciplined after the European ...
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... rule them . They had seen the French colours flying on Fort St. George ; they had seen the chiefs of the English factory led in triumph through the streets of Pon- dicherry ; they had seen the arms and counsels of Dupleix every where ...
... rule them . They had seen the French colours flying on Fort St. George ; they had seen the chiefs of the English factory led in triumph through the streets of Pon- dicherry ; they had seen the arms and counsels of Dupleix every where ...
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... rules . " Some people , " he wrote , " are pleased to term Captain Clive fortunate and lucky ; but , in my opinion , from the knowledge I have of the gentleman , he deserved and might expect from his conduct every thing as it fell out ...
... rules . " Some people , " he wrote , " are pleased to term Captain Clive fortunate and lucky ; but , in my opinion , from the knowledge I have of the gentleman , he deserved and might expect from his conduct every thing as it fell out ...
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... rule is subject to still fewer exceptions , and that , for this reason , that the life of societies is longer than the life of individuals . It is possible to mention men who have owed great worldly prosperity to breaches of private ...
... rule is subject to still fewer exceptions , and that , for this reason , that the life of societies is longer than the life of individuals . It is possible to mention men who have owed great worldly prosperity to breaches of private ...
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